Report No. 91 / 2024
Report No. 91 / 2024
Owing to contradictions between regional actors, socioeconomic problems, and political instability in some countries, the situation in the Middle East remains tense. Given such circumstances, political 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....
... Israel to keep massive forces on its border with Lebanon (for many Lebanese, it is not seen as the Israeli-Lebanese border, but the Palestinian-Lebanese border).
It seems that many Arab leaders are stuck living in the “old unipolar world order”. The Arab world appears afraid to move forward, held hostage by the fear of the US hegemon. Logically, only by breaking out of this paradigm will the elements of the new world order appear. Decisions are either maturing now or they never will, in which case ...
... security forces. No acceptable alternative to the hasty reforms had been proposed. As a result, both the Algerian and Syrian cases led to civil war and massive casualties. In Algeria, this time is referred to as the “black decade.”
In the meantime, the Arab world has made progress towards integration into the global economy, even though market reforms in most countries, where the public sector retained its dominant role, faced ubiquitous resistance from a bloated and corrupt bureaucracy, as well as ...
From November 28 to December 23, 2022, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the XVII Conference of Arabists “I.M. Smilyanskaya Readings” was held
From November 28 to December 23, 2022, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the XVII Conference of Arabists “I.M. Smilyanskaya Readings” was held. The conference was organized by the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS) at the IOS RAS. Within the framework...
On May 27, 2022, a presentation of a special issue of the Journal “Maraya International” took place at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
On May 27, 2022, a presentation of a special issue of the Journal “Maraya International” took place at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The issue is devoted to the foreign policy of Russia in modern conditions. It is also devoted to relations between Russia and the countries of...
On November 9–10, 2020, the regular 5th annual EU-Arab World Summit is held online. It has become a platform for political and economic dialogue between the European Union and the Middle East.
On November 9–10, 2020, the regular 5th annual
EU-Arab World Summit
is held online. It has become a platform ...
... foundation of the independent Turkish Republic headed by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In 1926, the USSR was the rst country to recognize the independence of Saudi Arabia under its founder Abdulaziz Al Saud, supplying the country – one of the poorest in the Arab world at the time – with staple commodities, including fuel. Soviet Russia was also among the rst nations to recognize Israel. These and other examples invariably turned out to be failu res for the USSR’s foreign policy. And there were various ...
... understood as being focused on providing alternative informational work, as opposed to presenting an attractive image of Russia.
However,
Russia, which has historically paid less attention to soft power
, now experiences growing discontent from the Arab world, partly due to its military involvement in the Syrian conflict. Indeed, supporting Bashar al-Assad and having strategic partnership with Iran, has tarnished Russia’s image in the eyes of the Sunni majority nations in the region. Not to mention,...
... followers of all religions or sects and boredom. In addition to owning a theological intellectual absolute truth both temporal and spiritual. All those facts and lessons of complex and conflicting. It need to assess and interpret and analyze within the Arab world. In this context, happened a lot of discussion and dialogue under headings and different names: Arabism and Islam.Islam and modernity.Islam between the ego and the other.Islam between the past and the future.Islam between intellectual comfort ...
... least in relations between Egypt and Sudan, Syria and Israel, Syria and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Palestine, Jordan and Israel.
Looking at the social sphere, we can say with confidence that in 40 years’ time the Arab world will face a new demographic crisis. Those who are 25 now will be reaching retirement age. This is the generation that constitutes the so-called “youth spike”, whose employment problems were one of the causes of Arab Spring in Tunisia,...
