MENA Alliances Network

Sources:

• Economist Data Team, The Middle Eastern Mesh (2015)
• Gabriel Rossman, Picking Sides (2015)

See also The Big Pharaoh's Complete Idiot's Chart to Understanding the Middle East.

The file below (in Pajek format) adds links from and to the Lebanese Hezbollah, as well as tentative longitude/latitude coordinates, based on capitals. Shortlink to the file: https://goo.gl/oNdgdB.

Example graph using ggnet2, with nodes colored by Spinglass-detected community:

Example graph using ggnetworkmap (unreleased), with nodes and edges colored by NATO membership (USA and Turkey in blue, rest in red):