Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 1,0, Muhlenberg College, course: The Modern Middle East, language: English, abstract: With the struggle for independence many states in the modern Middle East found themselves confronted with the challenge of the establishment of an own identity based on a long history, unifying events and shared values. Therefore, influence which was understood to be suppressive and foreign was fought. This essay gives a closer look at the strategies and ideologies Iran and Egypt used in particular to resist foreign powers in order to establish a stable state.