... trends
Transformational processes in the Arab world in the beginning of the 2010s led Russia and Turkey to an understanding of the need to form new foreign policy approaches towards the Middle East. This article seeks to identify the impact of the approaches Russia and... ... propose focusing on the following four main issues: terrorism, nuclear weapons, the Syrian crisis and the security architecture in the Middle East.
At the beginning of... ... “threats,"eventually identifying a number of Middle Eastern states, such as Iran, Syria and Iraq [
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]. As Western rhetoric about the danger of the Iranian nuclear...
Relations between the U.S. and Russia appear to be almost at the point of no return
Relations ... ... Europeans and Russia generally agree on the need to control the Islamic State. However, there has been a significant lack of coordination ... ... Then, in early April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military had allegedly ... ... Poland and Romania, as well as in Japan, South Korea, and the Middle East.
How might the 2013 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear accord with Iran impact U.S. Missile Defense deployments in Europe — particularly ...
The Crisis Group recently released a
briefing
on Russia’s partial pull-back of forces from Syria, its implications on the ceasefire as well as on Moscow’s ... ... its own national interests and an ambition of a key player in Middle Eastern affairs, rather than any commitment to Assad’s ... ... cover to certain FSA groups during joint operations against the Islamic State. The fact that Moscow never stopped reaching out ... ... vulnerabilities get discovered.
The changing dynamic of the Russia-Iran alliance
The survival of the Syrian government with Assad ...
Interests and opportunities
The Middle East has always had a special meaning for Russia. The area provides access to the Mediterranean Sea, linking ... ... relationships with different players in the Middle East, including Iran, Israel, a number of Arab states, Hamas and Hezbollah. Under ... ... modernity.
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Boris Dolgov, Omar Mahmood:
The Syrian Conflict: Russian and GCC
Perspectives
Domestic developments ... ... was a cross-border activities of an extremist organization - the Islamic State. ISIS has positioned itself as a champion of a global ...
... confrontation in Syria between the Syrian regime and the radical opposition represents, together with the actions of the “Islamic State” (IS), the main military-political crisis in the Middle East today. It has also become one of the most acute global conflicts, involving all major world powers. The leading countries of NATO and the European Union (EU), Russia, China and key regional states – Turkey, Iran, Israel, the GCC members and the Arabic countries neighboring Syria - have all focused their attention on the Syrian conflict.
The crisis can be considered part of “the Arabic spring”,...
