... Air Force, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. American military units have utilized the island during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. In addition, it can be used as a platform of special operations against terrorist cells in the wider Middle East region such as Syria and Iran. The geostrategic significance of the island is very important to American national interest. Moreover, the discovery of natural gas resources puts Cyprus as a major energy source country. Currently, the European ...
A Gold Mine for Russian Business
Contrary to the established view in Russia, business in the UAE is not limited to oil, tourism and real estate. The United Arab Emirates is justly believed to be an attractive business centre for Russian companies.
Why is the UAE attractive?
When the United Arab Emirates got its independence from the United Kingdom in 1971, the backbone of its economy was oil production and export. Relying on its oil revenues, UAE authorities prepared the ground for the diversification...
... instability remains, and for as long the results of this “tectonic shift” remain unknown, external players can to some extent influence the events, forecast them and sometimes direct them to the right track.
The report was drawn up as part of the “Middle East: Political Dynamics and Russia’s Interests” project organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
Authors:
V.V. Naumkin (Lead Author), Corresponding Member, RAS, Dr. of History; A.G. Aksenenok, Ph.D. in Law; I.D. Zvyagelskaya,...
Challenges and Opportunities for Russia
Because of rapidly changing processes taking place across the Middle East, we divide the 8-year period reviewed here into two equal parts, 2012-2016 and 2016-2020, in order to identify both short-term and mid-term prospects for these countries. To be sure, this in no way means that this is anything more than an ...
... years old) – that is frequently lacking any (universal) access to education, health and housing – is dominated by juvenile, mainly unemployed or underemployed, but socially mobilized and often angry males.
An exceptional fact that the Middle East is a cradle of all four monotheistic religions is thus turned into its own paradox: Fueled by severe socio-economic exclusions and exacerbated by exploitation of the Shia–Sunni and of Muslim–Jewish–Christian antagonism, political ...
On April 16, 2013 RIAC program coordinators Aleksandr Eliseev and Vladimir Morozov took part in the conference
"Arab Middle East: international problems and development. Future for the secular forces in the states of the "Arab awakening"
which was organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Center of transformation ...
Authors: Vassilios Damiras, Ph.D. (ABD), CEO Geostrategic Forecasting Cooperation - (GSFC) Chryssoula Katsikoudi, Director of Middle Eastern Affairs and Women’s Issues in the Middle East at Geostrategic Forecasting Cooperation - GSFC Events since the terrorists’ attacks of September 11, 2001, have dramatically and drastically changed the political environment in ...
... Russia. Arab countries are of interest to Russia as a market for domestically manufactured goods, technologies, metal products, and some raw materials on the one hand, and as a source of investment on the other.
Russia owes the position it enjoys in some Middle Eastern and North African economies primarily to the Soviet legacy. The Soviet Union was known for its substantial assistance to Arab states, helping them with large infrastructure projects, the power industry, metallurgy, engineering, and defense ...
... could be used, could be changed as far as location is concerned. But geopolitical context is being introduced not by us. The people who say that the regime must be changed are driven, willingly or unwillingly, by the well-known notion of the Greater Middle East and North Africa introduced many years ago by George Bush Jr. who said that democratizing the Middle East is “our utmost goal”. I think any interested observer who follows what is going on in the region can make his or her own ...
... Damascus. The conflict is also becoming increasingly internationalized. These considerations do accentuate the relevance of Moscow’s stance on the Syrian conflict. To what extent does it meet Russia’s key long-term interests in Syria and the Middle East as a whole? Is Russia ready for possible U-turns up to and including the fall of Assad’s regime?
The situation in and around Syria is becoming increasingly dramatic, and the
UN estimates
the number of casualties at over 60,000. Information ...
