The Future of the Middle East: Horizons of Challenges and Opportunities

... of the area. The Maghreb and the Sahel are the exceptions, but even there Europeans face Russia’s political competition and China’s economic expansion. Moreover, this is a space where European states compete rather than cooperate: for example, repeated ... ... domestic affairs. The optimistic scenario concerns not so much the Middle East region as a whole, but the Arab countries of North Africa. By 2025, a booming economic expansion begins on the African continent, and the countries from the Maghreb successfully place themselves as the connector between the two continents....