... strongest proponents of escalation are the Houthis, who are the least affected by the postmodern values and lifestyle in the Middle East.
Perhaps even Tehran can no longer count on the unconditional loyalty of the new generation of Iranian citizens, who ... ... victory of the only “reformist” candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, in the recent presidential election is a clear signal from society to the leadership of the Islamic Republic that people want peace, stability and economic development, rather than new ...
The substantive basis of the conference was the RIAC report “Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics”, authored by Russian experts on Middle Eastern issues
On February 12, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a conference “Regional dynamics in the Middle East in the context of ...
... citizen. The cuneiform inscription reads, “here the writing began.”
Whatever happened to Baghdad, it has always been reborn—through human efforts, to be sure.
Ramifications of Hussein’s foreign policy
Aleksandr Aksenenok:
U.S. Policy Case for Middle East under New Conditions
Saddam Hussein’s foreign policy could be described as adventurous. Unlike his predecessor, Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, he was less careful in making decisions (or delaying the decision-making, which, of course, is also a Middle ...
On September 30 – October 1, 2022, Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Qatar, held an international conference in a hybrid format on the situation in the Middle East: reset, great power competition and regional (in)stability
On September 30 – October 1, 2022,
Middle East Council ...
... Loginov, A., 2018. Ideologiya v obshchestve pozdnego moderna: ischeznovenie ili transformatsiya? [Ideology in the Late Modern Society: Dissolution or Transformation?] Sociologicheskoe Obozrenie, 17(3), pp.202-205.
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Soler I Lecha E. et al., eds., 2016. Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping Geopolitical Shifts, Regional Order and Domestic Transformation. Methodology ...
... number of external experts. The authors of the report emphasize that they tried to take into account various points of view, including pro-government and opposition politicians, public officials, diplomats, members of security forces, experts, civil society activists, members of the private sector. In addition to respondents from the Middle East and North Africa and the corresponding foreign diasporas, the authors sought to include the views of experts from Europe, Russia, China, and the US.
The sociological survey included expert polls, in-depth face-to-face interviews, focus group ...
... implementing all the elements into a single narrative, and this represents its greatest potential.
There is little doubt that inventing such a narrative arbitrarily from without is less than likely, and its emergence will be the finale of the present Middle East drama.
However, since the problems have to be solved by means of this narrative, we can distinguish certain aspects of the latter.
Obviously, the first such problem is what V. Naumkin called curing the “
diseases of society
” that push young people to radical ideologies.
Accordingly, the question arises: What do young men and women that travel to the Islamic State seek? The answer is not a riddle wrapped up in an enigma.
If the request for change in the Arab ...
... certain society. This very narrative is driving us to give voluntary consent to subjugation that everyone feels when existing in a society. It seems relevant to always have clear-cut grounds for sacrificing some of one's liberty. However, the postmodernist ... ... an answer, but instead offers permanent interference into one's privacy.
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Vasily Kuznetsov:
The Middle East: Postmodernism Is Over
By turning to the science of ethology we see that legitimization and trust make up the basics ...