Which was riven with civil wars and rebellions from a lot the groups currently fighting each other, or in a near constant state of war with one neighbor or another. The ethnic and cultural conflicts in the region go back several millennia. The borders that the declining European empires set up where just their attempt to turn ongoing conflicts to their own benefit.
Europe/Western World is really just in an unnatural state of peace since it's still kinda shell shocked from WW1 & 2.