Russia in the Middle East: 10 Years After the Arab Spring

... pose any threat to national security at all: the United States is separated from the most problematic region in the world by thousands of kilometres. Unlike Russia, China or Europe, the Americans can look at regional processes from the point of view of a ... ... institutions of state power, based on the principle of democracy. Other states that found themselves at the centre of the “Arab Spring” returned to those forms of statehood that were historically characteristic of the Middle East. The game of big ...