... conducts its foreign policy through the lens of promoting regional and global stability. This approach serves several purposes: protecting energy routes such as the Strait of Hormuz, attracting long-term investments, maintaining steady demand for its energy resources, and strengthening its sovereignty in the face of pressure from larger neighbors. For this reason, Doha is actively involved in diplomatic processes and conflict resolution in various parts of the world—from the Middle East to Africa and Eastern Europe.
Andrey Kortunov:
Middle East in the New Trump Era: Russia’s Foreign Policy Dilemmas
Qatar places particular emphasis on mediation. In recent years, it has become a key intermediary in negotiations between the ...
Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Climate change is identified in Russia’s Climate Doctrine as “one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century,” a statement that is hard to disagree with. Scientists around the world have agreed that anthropogenic factors play a key role in this process through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2020, the increase in global average temperature...
... 2016, OPEC and several non-member states (OPEC Plus), including Russia, agreed to reduce oil production to stabilise prices. Thus, Moscow
sought
to develop systematic interaction with influential international organisations, whose key members are the energy exporting states of the Middle East and North Africa. Joint monitoring of the oil market, production adjustments and other measures stabilised the situation. However, with the coronavirus crisis, the global oil market began to falter again and energy prices became volatile. ...
... oil has shrunk to below 40 percent. The geographic structure of hydrocarbon exports is gradually changing in favor of the countries of East and South Asia (Japan, China, South Korea, India), followed by Europe. The United States is becoming the main energy competitor for Middle Eastern hydrocarbon producers, replacing Saudi Arabia as the regulator of global energy markets.
The most significant consequence of the changes taking place on world energy markets will be the inevitable decline in "oil rent" that the ...
RIAC Working Paper № 48/2019
RIAC Working Paper № 48/2019
This working paper was prepared by the Russian International Affairs Council as part of the RIAC’s project on «Conflicts in the Middle East: Tools and Strategies for Settlement». This paper is devoted to analyzing the situation in the oil and gas market in Iraq and Syria, as well as the energy policy of Russia in the Arab Mashreq region. The authors also analyze Iraq’s oil prospects in the post-war period under sanctions against Iran. Special attention is paid to the Kurdish factor and the role the Kurds play in the future of energy ...
