Security issues in the Middle East: the present challenges and threats

Occupation: RUDN University; Researcher, Tunisian Center of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies
Affiliation:
RUDN University
Tunisian Center of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Asia and Africa Today

Edition

Issue 9

Pages

73-78

Abstract

The article analyzes the issue of the Middle East security. The Arab countries are facing a lot of regional threats and a fundamental shift in the regional security system, which has become one of the basic variables for the Middle East through the transition to a new form of regional and international interactions. The existence of mutual influences between the nature of the international system and the regional order of the Middle East and the Gulf region is already considered as an incubator for all intractable conflicts and crises.

We cannot study the concept of regional security in separate from the global effects and repercussions. After the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the structural transformations and global changes led to the emergence of profound changes in the international system, which resulted in the restructuring of the general features of the international environment.

The international transformation is marked by the fact that the new world order increased the chances of emergence of new international powers in both Europe and Asia, whether countries or major economic or political blocs trying to establish a multi-polar international order, which prompted the United States to pursue a policy of cooperation with competing powers.

And in light of this international environment, it was natural for the regions of strategic importance, particularly the Middle East, to be affected because they were linked to relations of mutual influence with the international system, as international balances affect regional balances.

Keywords

Middle East, Persian Gulf, regional security, instability, Russia, United States, sectarianism, balance of power

Received

02.05.2021

Publication date

15.09.2021

Number of characters

21079

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GOST	Werfelli W. Security issues in the Middle East: the present challenges and threats // Asia and Africa Today – 2021. – Issue 9 C. 73-78 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://asaf-today.ru/S032150750016592-3-1 (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S032150750016592-3
MLA	Werfelli, Wissal "Security issues in the Middle East: the present challenges and threats." Asia and Africa Today 9 (2021):73-78. DOI: 10.31857/S032150750016592-3
APA	Werfelli W. (2021). Security issues in the Middle East: the present challenges and threats. Asia and Africa Today (9), pp.73-78 DOI: 10.31857/S032150750016592-3

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