Understanding the New Proxy Wars: Battlegrounds and Strategies Reshaping the Greater Middle East - Hardcoverby Peter Bergen (Editor), Candace Rondeaux (Editor), Daniel Rothenberg (Editor) Proxy warfare will shape the conflicts of the twenty first century for the foreseeable future. Yet the popular understanding of proxy wars remains largely shaped by the experience of the Cold War. In reality, in the Greater Middle East and its periphery today, the growing power of regional states and non state actors, combined with the proliferation of new technology, has