The Russia-Middle East policy has demonstrated considerable resilience, as has the regional system of international relations
Introduction
When Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” in Ukraine a year ago, many experts and journalists concluded ...
The new round of the Palestine-Israel conflict is a deja vue for the people and elites in the Middle East, not only for the level of hatred and bloodshed that the region is witnessing but also for the possible coming not-very-distant future consequences in the Middle East. History often repeats itself when the same objective cause that led to ...
... the end of the Cold War is unlikely to be repeated. The slow end of the American Century is already being marked by hostilities and tensions involving some of the major powers. With more likely to come.
The ongoing conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East have the same root cause. Essentially, the self-proclaimed victors in the Cold War – above all, the United States of America – have singularly failed in creating a lasting international equilibrium to succeed the post-WWII bipolar setup....
... Moreover, in the modern world we increasingly see how an excessive number of external obligations is becoming more of a problem than an advantage of even the most well-resourced foreign policy strategies.
In fact, the real significance of the crisis in the Middle East that has been going on for several weeks is not the problem of relations between Israel, the Palestinian people and their neighbours. Even the most dramatic changes in the fate of the Jewish state itself, not to mention its immediate adversaries ...
... crisis suggests that the fabric of the order that emerged after the Cold War on the ruins of the bipolar system is tearing at the seams more and more frequently. It is becoming more and more difficult to mend such developments.
The developments in the Middle East have pushed the fighting in Ukraine to the background of the media agenda. Meanwhile, the situation there hardly speaks in favour of the strength of the post-bipolar status quo. A sign of such strength could be Russia’s return to the status ...
The goal of the round table was to discuss the dynamics of quadrilateral cooperation in the context of regional trends in the Middle East. The meeting was attended by leading experts from Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syria
On October 18, 2023, a closed round table “Cooperation between Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syria in the Context of Regional Dynamics” was held. Russian International ...
How will the Middle East emerge from the upheavals that overwhelmed it at the turn of the century?
Among Arab political scientists and politicians, much as in the circles of Middle East experts across the world, the political processes in a region that has seen ...
On October 12, 2023, a round table “Middle East Settlement: 45 Years of the Camp David Accords” was organized as a part of the XV Russian International Studies Association (RISA) Convention “Non-Western World: Russia’s Role and Opportunities”
On October 12, 2023, a round table ...
On September 27–30, 2023, the 3rd International Expert Forum “Russia — Middle East” is being held in St. Petersburg
On September 27–30, 2023, the 3rd International Expert Forum “Russia — Middle East” is being held in St. Petersburg. The event is organized by the Evgeniy Primakov Center for International Cooperation ...
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which we find ourselves in again and again will require sub-regional and regional structural reorganization. In this respect, analysts and researchers must inevitably face the need to define the conceptual framework for the new environment. Should the Middle East be referred to as West Asia and the Persian Gulf referred to as the Gulf? Not only are the forms and content of these terms changing rapidly, the connotations themselves are also undergoing remarkable transformations.
The notion of the Near ...