... questions are addressed to Washington.
What sounds alarming is that beyond the scope of the current security agenda, European experts generally don’t see Moscow making any significant contribution to the future of the MENA. They write a lot about China, about the European Union, about Africa, but not about Russia. Analyzing the long-term challenges of the development of the region, the authors mention Russia only twice — as one of the major food exporters to the region and as an important partner in the development of nuclear energy in the MENA. On other ...
Russia, China, the five members of European Union (France, Germany, the UK, Spain, and Italy) take the 66 percent of international arms transfer in the period of 2009~2013 (Siemon T. Wezeman, 2014). Compared with the 2004~2008, the percentage of arms importers of major weapon regional, Africa increase from 7% to 9% in the same period (see the below). As recipient, the poorly limited defense budget in African continent,...
... after the regime change in 2013, with French and African peacemakers already deployed in the country. In February 2014, the European Union made the decision to send a 800-1,000-strong
peacekeeping contingent
there, but failed to do so as some European countries were unwilling to provide troops and hardware.
What Africa Means for Russia, China and the United States
The rise of Chinese influence in Africa has become a most noticeable global trend in the 2000s, as ...
