This book is published after Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed assumed the presidency of the UAE in May 2022. It highlights the major initiatives he led over the past era, and his project for the UAE in the next 50 years, illustrated in his "Centennial of the Union" plan, which confirms that "the future in the UAE starts now".
Over the past three decades, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has formulated and led the most prominent Emirati policies in defense, foreign policy, security...
... Makarov, Head of the School of World Economy of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE; Aleksey Kupriyanov, Head of the Group on South Asia and Indian Ocean of the IMEMO RAS; Vyacheslav Belokrenitsky, Head of the Center for Middle East Studies of the IOS RAS; Alexander Lukin, Director of the Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies of MGIMO University; Anastasia Pyatachkova, Deputy Head of the CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department at the HSE; Grigory Lukyanov,...
On Middle Eastern states’ pragmatic approach and neutrality
Today’s world, with its current architecture of international relations, has entered a new phase of transformation, one that will take years. As a rule, such developments transpire through ...
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 ...
... organized by Al-Rafidain Center for Dialogue, Baghdad-based think-tank. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the main problems of contemporary world. More than a thousand public and political figures, scientists, experts, and journalists from Iraq, the Middle East and the whole world attended the RCD Forum 2022. In total, representatives of 33 countries took part in the meeting.
The RCD Forum 2022 included a series of workshops, as well as several panel discussions on key regional and global trends....
On August 29, 2022, with the assistance of The Shaikh Group political consultancy, the ordinary virtual expert meeting on security issues in the regions of the Middle East and North Africa took place
On August 29, 2022, with the assistance of The Shaikh Group political consultancy, the ordinary virtual expert meeting on security issues in the regions of the Middle East and North Africa took place.
Experts ...
Biden’s Middle East strategy looks like a desire to find a middle ground between two extremes: over-involvement in the regional set-up or a complete turn toward the Indo-Pacific
In contrast to the presidential elections of the past two decades, the new White ...
... non-Western power is a welcomed partner, even if there are contradictions and inconsistencies in its relations with Russia.
Biden in the Background
The Astana summit and Putin’s visit to Tehran came immediately after U.S. President Joe Biden’s tour of the Middle East. Despite numerous commentators suggesting that the Russian leader’s visit to Iran was a “response” to the initiative of the American president, there is no real substance to this argument. What Biden’s trip does do is place the trilateral ...
On July 25, 2022, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a closed seminar “The U.S. Factor in the Middle East in the New Conditions”
On July 25, 2022, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a closed seminar “The U.S. Factor in the Middle East in the New Conditions”. The goal of the meeting was to discuss key regional trends ...
The main question now is how much Russia will be considered a security provider after February 24
U.S. President Joe Biden has now visited the Middle East, and this week, President of Russia Vladimir Putin also pays a visit to Iran, where he is expected to hold trilateral meetings with President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Syria's Astana process.
Igor ...
