... skillful leveraging of its reported PMC presence in the East.
The Levant: Complex Multipolar Balancing
Political Risks for Russian-Egyptian Cooperation in North Africa. RIAC and ECFA Report
Russia’s anti-terrorist intervention in Syria was truly a game changer ... ... will probably remain in power for some time. During his unofficial rule, though, Saudi Arabia got bogged down in neighboring Yemen, which led to the
world’s worst humanitarian crisis
. It intervened very decisively due to the fears of that country ...
... continue their existing path. The futures of Bahrain and Qatar, however, depend highly on developments in Saudi Arabia.
Vectors of power dynamics
are especially strong from Saudi Arabia. Today, Egypt depends on Saudi Arabian money for stability, and Egypt is a key member of the Saudi led “Arab Response Force”, by some called “Arab NATO”. Yemen, at the Bab el-Mandeb strait and close to the Asir region (one of the last to be included into Saudi Arabia after an uneasy treaty with Yemen, 1934), has always been strategic for Saudi Arabia. Bahrain’s kingdom depends on external military support,...
... between 200,000 and 500,000 lives. As many as 70,000 people have lost their lives as a result of two civil wars in Libya. And the Yemeni Civil War counts several thousand among its victims, with the humanitarian catastrophe it is leaving in its wake has affected ... ... never-ending fear of violence.
Terrorism has become a part of everyday life in the “calmer” countries in the region, Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey. While the number of victims of terrorist attacks in these countries is hardly comparable to the numbers of lives ...
... look too radical, naïve or detached from the current regional political realities. Nevertheless, the desperate situation in Yemen and the stalemate around Qatar suggest that any half-way, tactical solutions are not good enough to handle basic security ... ... any international collective security system — its inclusive nature. It goes without saying that leading Arab nations — Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and others — have to play a decisive role in building such a system. However, can one ignore non-Arab ...
... services are too weak to take up this region-wide responsibility. Besides, the ruling family is deeply mired in a perennial struggle over succession, which effectively overshadows all other activities.
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Leonid Issaev:
Yemen: Following in Afghanistan’s Footsteps?
Today the various different sides are trying to create, or rather revive, the tandem of Egyptian soldiers and Saudi money. However, the prospects for this arrangement seem doubtful because there is no truly positive experience of any such alliance. Any united Arab force – as seen in the Arab-Israeli wars, in Lebanon of the 1970s, or ...
