Russia’s return to the Gulf

Sim, Li-Chen

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“…Syria quickly became a lightning rod for radical Islamists around the globe, including those based in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Over 4,000 Russian citizens and 5,000 citizens from other post-Soviet states are estimated to have traveled to Syria, the majority of them fighting with groups such as IS or al-Qaeda (Sim, 2018). Russia feared the prospect of these fighters returning home to carry out attacks against the homeland or aiding Chechen separatists in their fight for independence.…”

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Moscow, Beijing, and the Crescent: Russian and Chinese religious soft power in the Middle East

Hoffman

2021

Digest Mid East Studies

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Moscow, Beijing, and the Crescent: Russian and Chinese religious soft power in the Middle East

Hoffman

2021

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…Putin has repeatedly supplied the LNA with weapons funneled through Egypt and financed by the UAE in contravention of a UN arms embargo. 29 Moreover, Moscow has directly supported Haftar via airstrikes, thousands of private military contractors, and Russian special forces based in Egypt on the border with Libya. 30 A report released by the US Department of Defense has confirmed that the UAE is funding these Russian mercenaries' fighting on behalf of Haftar.…”

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The Return of Great‐Power Competition to the Middle East: A Two‐Level Game

Hoffman¹

2021

Middle East Policy

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Great‐power competition has once again assumed primacy in the international arena. Facing a rising China and a resurgent Russia, the United States formally reoriented its National Security Strategy in 2017 to place more emphasis on the return of great‐power politics and global multipolarity. With the resumption of such competition, the Middle East has rightfully been noted as a regional theater where Russia and China have sought to exploit US policy blunders and retrenchment (real or perceived) to push for increased regional multipolarity. Although the Middle East has been recognized as a prime theater for great‐power competition, the approaches adopted by most existing studies are primarily one‐sided: they examine great‐power competition in the region from the outside, stressing how global powers are manipulating affairs in the Middle East in order to advance their own interests. Often missing from this conversation is how external engagement in the Middle East is being exploited and shaped by regional powers and endogenous developments. This study seeks to fill this gap by using the conceptual lens of omnialignment to examine how regional powers are manipulating the return of great‐power competition to advance their own strategic imperatives, both at home and abroad.

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Implications of a regional order in flux: Chinese and Russian relations with the United Arab Emirates

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Fulton

2020

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Russia’s return to the Gulf

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Moscow, Beijing, and the Crescent: Russian and Chinese religious soft power in the Middle East

Moscow, Beijing, and the Crescent: Russian and Chinese religious soft power in the Middle East

The Return of Great‐Power Competition to the Middle East: A Two‐Level Game

Implications of a regional order in flux: Chinese and Russian relations with the United Arab Emirates

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