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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 ...
... Spring is showing little sign of abating; on the contrary, it promises to take on ever more frightening proportions. Whereas 100 years ago the fuse was burning in the Balkan states, today people are keeping a watchful and worried eye on events in the Middle East. A fierce civil war is still raging in Syria, which is directly influenced by events in Jordan, where a change in government is looking ever more likely. Meanwhile, the problem in Palestine is entering a new phase in which the question of ...
... parliament is elected. Numerous Arab states recognized the National Coalition in mid-November. France was also at the vanguard, as the Socialist victory in the country’s spring 2102 elections has done nothing to change Paris’ stance on the Middle East. However, Washington did not rush its recognition, adding a certain suspense to the proceedings. Photo: polosa.co.il Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “… the United States seems to have backed the military victory of the ...
... from the RAS Institute for Oriental Studies and Anton Grishayev from the office of the Federation Council took the second subject. The discussion focused on Russia’s stance on Syria, as well as the pros and cons for Russia’s future in the Middle East, and Pritchin was voted the winner. The compatriots issue was tackled by Andrey Trivailo from the Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy and the winner Andrey Sushentsov from MGIMO University, who covered support mechanisms for compatriots, current ...
