Russians and Arabs: in Search of a New Modus Vivendi
... East, that can be summarized the following way: First. Authoritarian states in the Middle East are in any case better than failed states that come to replace the former... ... interpreted in a very liberal way. Third. If Russia remains an idle bystander watching the Arab Spring from the sideline, the chaos, instability and terrorism generated in the Arab world will ultimately spill over Russia’s borders, not to mention the evident... ... application of this new approach was, of course, the Moscow engagement into the civil war in Syria. In this bloody and protracted conflict, Moscow demonstrated much more than its...