The “Indispensable Nation”; a “resurgent power”; “Jack of All Trades”; the “power broker”: these are some of the expressions used to describe Russia’s role in the MENA region today. In a context where the US seems to keep disengaging from the region and the EU’s influence remains very low, Russia indeed seems to emerge as a crucial player, able to determine the outcome of many crises. To what extent does this reflect reality? This dossier selects five among the most severe crises affecting the region and analyses Russia’s real interests and actual gains for each of them.
Fundación Alternativas
Uni Autonoma Madrid
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Head of North Africa Initiative and Resident Senior Fellow Rafik Hariri Center for Middle East, Atlantic Council
Senior Advisor ISPI
Italian Institute of Astrophysics, Associate member
University of Padova, Past Full Professor
University of Bucharest, Politics and Policy of the European Union Professor
Fellow, Brookings Institution and Director of the Carnegie Corporation's Crisis Response Council
ISPI MENA Centre, Research Assistant
ECFR, Pan European Fellow & ISPI
Founding Director of the Program on Economics and Energy, Middle East Institute