On december 9, 20, the brookings doha center bdc hosted a policy discussion on russias role in the middle east. The arab spring presents russia with a dual challenge. In some cases they go together with significant pacts of strategic and. Russia s comeback has also been greatly facilitated by a number of politicomilitary opportunities.
Especially in its ability to influence outcomes in syria, but also in its reading of. The political and social turbulence in the arab world has reverberated well beyond the middle east, with china deeply affected by the upheavals. However, the recent arab uprisings, better known as. Kontraksi demokrasi kisah revolusi arab ini bermula dari seorang pemuda bernama mohamed bouazizi. From the aftermath of the arab spring in the middle east to radicalisation and immigration issues in europe takes a closer look at russia s activities. Pdf arab spring as a background of civil war in syria. Opinion russian winter and arab spring the new york times. This special issue of the estonian journal of military studies titled russia, syria and the west. Between the islamic state and the nationstate the brookings project on u. The arab spring and the subsequent wars in the region temporarily weakened ruling regimes egypt or led to the collapse of regional powers syria, libya, while the rise of daesh or the socalled islamic state of iraq and syria isis put the. Libya and egypt, known as arab spring, on the situation in syria was described. The arab spring intelligence failure is a cautionary tale when approaching other issues requiring objective assessments, such as irans intentions regarding. The russian government, like its counterparts in the west, the middle east, and elsewhere, was caught off guard by the outburst of arab uprisings beginning in january 2011 that swept away longruling authoritarian regimes in tunisia, egypt, libya, and it appears yemen, and have threatened to topple those in bahrain and syria.
The color revolutions and arab spring in russian official discourse. Climate factors curtailed wheat production in russia. The arab spring was just as unexpected for russias foreign policy as for the west. On the one hand, while north africa and the middle east are undergoing. Russias response to the arab spring ranged from apprehension to deep. The situation began to change after world war ii, when, flush with vic. Russian policy across the middle east chatham house. The response of the russian government to these events has, like.
The integration of syrias conflict with the arab uprisings, 201120 article pdf available in research and politics october 2014 with 1,267 reads. Speakers assessed russias political objectives in the region, its. Marxist circles and parties set up in the arab world with moscows help had little influence, and local liberation movements did not depend on the bolsheviks. On the one hand, while north africa and the middle east are undergoing a phase of upheaval, moscow is looking to protect its interests in the region as well as its quest for great power status. This policy memo is from 2012 more than a year after the inception of the socalled arab spring, turkeys muchballyhooed regional rise is teetering on the brink. Vladimir putins diplomatic strategy, his perception of the arab spring and the domestic political situation in russia. Russia and the arab spring polhenry dasseleer and nicolas gosset1 moscows relations with arab capitals, from damascus to alger, through tripoli and cairo, are historical and multifarious, as well of economical kind as of political and cultural nature. Pdf the color revolutions and arab spring in russian official. For precisely this reason, it serves as a good test of whether.
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