Russia and Turkey: Approaches to Regional Security in the Middle East

... that the strategic long-term challenges to the effective development and security of the Middle East and North Africa are not so much political as they are economic and humanitarian... ... cooperate for the sake of something. Iran, without whose support countries like Russia and Turkey cannot imagine a successful future for the region, has certainly found itself... ... formats. Another proposal calls for the creation of a format that would bring together the GCC, Iran and Iraq (so-called GCC+2) [ 48 ]. In the initial phase, this new format...