... similar result—at least, if elections are held in the near future. Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas turns 90 next year, and, as one can easily guess, the bitter struggle for his political legacy has already begun.
Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics. RIAC Report
The situation in Israel looks more certain and predictable, but this certainty and predictability are unlikely to facilitate the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Judging by opinion polls, Israeli society is willing to go all the way in the fight against Hamas,...
... and economic trends in the Middle East require a degree of theoretical conceptualization. The authors of this report analyze the current political and economic trends in the region’s Arab countries and non-Arab states, including Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Additionally, the authors examine key foreign policy trends in Middle Eastern states.
Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics
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... when you least expect it.
For a long time, the main goal in the US Middle East strategy was to neutralize the role of Iran as the joker. One after another, US presidents have tried to convince the international community that the main problem in the Middle East was not even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but rather Tehran’s “regional hegemonism.”
Various ways of solving the “Iranian problem” were proposed, including the creation of the broadest possible anti-Iranian coalitions, increased economic and diplomatic ...
... service with Sanaa was partially restored.
However, the situation had drastically changed by the end of the year. The longstanding Israeli-Palestinian confl ict re-emerged on the regional and global agenda and became the focal point of all regional conflicts ... ... the authors of this paper, argued in recent years that this knot of contradictions held a central place in the inventory of Middle East regional conflicts.
The Report: Gaza. Yemen. Epicentres of Pain. Feelings, Myths, and Memories in the Middle East
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... RAS), the 2nd meeting of the section “The Long 20th Century in the History of Arab Countries” was held. The section was attended by Ivan Bocharov, Program Coordinator at the RIAC. He made a report on Egypt’s mediation efforts in resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
The moderator of the discussion was Grigory Lukyanov, Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the IOS RAS.
... although the Kremlin remains interested in a Syrian-Turkish rapprochement and Syria rejoining the League of Arab States. [
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The crisis in Eastern Europe has been less significant for the region than many other events happening simultaneously inside the Middle East, such as expanding the Abraham Accords, Israel’s deep political crisis, or the China-brokered Saudi-Iranian rapprochement. However, the crisis in Eastern Europe did have an impact on the food security of the MENA region and it also affected negotiations on oil exports within the OPEC+ format....
... resistance against Zionism and American imperialism in the region.
The barbaric military operation of Israel in Gaza, which led to the death of more than 9000 Palestinian civilians, more than half of them children, could shortly lead to an all-out war in the Middle East between Israel on the one hand and Iran and its militia in Iraq and Syria and its Hezbollah proxy on the other. Of course, the Iranian elites could only strive to avoid being entrapped in a full confrontation with Israel. This could lead to considerable disaster ...
... putting out fires where they supposedly shouldn’t have broken out. With a high probability, Washington will be able to provide Israel with significant military and diplomatic assistance, limiting the next outbreak of conflict. But each such fire requires ... ... The US withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 did not lead to Iran abandoning positions on its missile programme and policy in the Middle East. Moreover, it created the conditions for Iran to return to its nuclear programme. In both the case of the DPRK and ...
... security in the region. “The Iranian threat to Israel has been the most important one for the last 20 years but the Israeli army is prepared to repel it. But now this issue is being used more as a struggle for influence. Iran will not try to attack Israel. There will be no peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian issue is resolved through the signing of agreements[6]”.
There can be no doubt that the regional leaders of the Middle East are in a race to be the economic leaders of the region. Through a close partnership with the ...
... out of U.S. foreign policy priorities. Shortly after his election, George W. Bush came up with the ambitious initiative of a Greater Middle East which entailed a democratic restructuring of the region; Barack Obama quickly sent a special envoy for the Middle East to mediate between Israel and the Palestinian Authority; and Donald Trump, by contrast, dashed a number of traditional constants in the policies of his predecessors. It took Joe Biden’s administration a long time to realize the place of this troubled region in the U.S....
