... are many players in the region that claim a leading role, primarily, Saudi Arabia and Iran, cooperation between which is seriously complicated by religious divergence. The... ... accept a role as second in command. For this reason, US plans to establish some form of NATO in the Middle East are doomed to failure. Eventually I don’t see any streamlined... ... security system in the Middle East.
The main goal today is to end the conflict in Syria and embark on economic recovery there. Russia will not be able to do this single-handedly but from the viewpoint of the future...
... processes in the Arab world in the beginning of the 2010s led Russia and Turkey to an understanding of the need to form new foreign ... ... the following four main issues: terrorism, nuclear weapons, the Syrian crisis and the security architecture in the Middle East.... ... called into question the level of relations between Russia and NATO member states. Together with a military coup attempt in Turkey ... ...,"eventually identifying a number of Middle Eastern states, such as Iran, Syria and Iraq [
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... the EU and Russia? How will it impact the process of inter-ethnic reconciliation and stability in the Balkans?
How is the global refugee crisis in general impacting the Balkan region? What should be done about the massive refugee crisis in general?
Syria and Turkish-Saudi-Iranian Conflict
When a Turkish F-16 pilot shot down a Russian fighter jet in late November 2015, it might have provoked war between NATO and Russia. But international diplomacy helped to defuse tensions, and Turkey and Russia have subsequently worked to improve relations — even if the incident negatively impacted NATO, Russian and Turkish relations.
Turkish-Russian relations were ...
... Russia intervened from a position of desperation and weakness, and Russia’s weak hand has only improved marginally for all its efforts ... ... with more responsibility. Trump’s strike will certainly make Iran question the cost of its support of Assad along with helping ... ... after the disillusionment of the experience of Libya’s post-NATO-intervention problems (although I still would say that the ... ... on that another time); no other major power had intervened in Syria and thus owned the conflict, to speak, and that was another ...