**Sotiris Roussos**

Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese, 20132 Corinth, Greece; sroussos67@gmail.com

Received: 18 April 2020; Accepted: 19 May 2020; Published: 21 May 2020

**Abstract:** By the end of the 20th century, after grea<sup>t</sup> political upheavals, two world wars, the decolonization process and political, social and scientific revolutions, it is hard to miss that the world is in a deep de-secularization process. In the Middle East, this process has taken multiple trajectories and has made geopolitics of religion central in reshaping regional issues and in restructuring modes of international politics and international system's intervention in the Middle East.

**Keywords:** religion; international relations; Middle East; Islam; foreign policy regional politics; non-state actors; global order
