Russia
In the second decade of the 21st century Russia-Gulf relations are experiencing a new renaissance. Over the past 30 years Russia’s strategic approach towards to the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula sub-region went through several major phases. Back in the 1990s, Moscow’s interest in this sub-region wa...
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| author | Muraviev, Alexey |
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| description | In the second decade of the 21st century Russia-Gulf relations are experiencing a new renaissance. Over the past 30 years Russia’s strategic approach towards to the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula sub-region went through several major phases. Back in the 1990s, Moscow’s interest in this sub-region was limited-scale and economically driven. Under Russia’s President Vladimir Putin its national strategic agenda evolved from being modestly expansionist and non-confrontational in the early 2000s to a more aggressively assertive, ambitious influence building and impact driven towards the end of the second decade of the 21st century. For Russia, the sub-region is an area of strategic opportunity, where Moscow has political clout combined with established niche military-strategic and geo-economic positions. Russia maintains strong relations with both the Sunni and the Shi’i regional block, thus potentially giving it an edge as an external mediator and a power influencer. But could Russia’s recent political successes and strategic gains across the larger Middle East allow it to assume the role of a dominant external force, or will it continue to play a more limited role in the sub-region’s strategic affairs? This chapter will offer some critical reflections of the evolution of Russia’s engagement with the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula after the collapse of the Soviet Union; identify its current strategic interests vis-à-vis the sub-region; consider major socio-economic vectors which allow Moscow’s deeper interaction with it, and finally critically assess Russia’s capacity to expand its influence by exercising national military power across the Gulf. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-953652025-01-28T01:28:00Z Russia Muraviev, Alexey Hensel, Howard Security, International In the second decade of the 21st century Russia-Gulf relations are experiencing a new renaissance. Over the past 30 years Russia’s strategic approach towards to the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula sub-region went through several major phases. Back in the 1990s, Moscow’s interest in this sub-region was limited-scale and economically driven. Under Russia’s President Vladimir Putin its national strategic agenda evolved from being modestly expansionist and non-confrontational in the early 2000s to a more aggressively assertive, ambitious influence building and impact driven towards the end of the second decade of the 21st century. For Russia, the sub-region is an area of strategic opportunity, where Moscow has political clout combined with established niche military-strategic and geo-economic positions. Russia maintains strong relations with both the Sunni and the Shi’i regional block, thus potentially giving it an edge as an external mediator and a power influencer. But could Russia’s recent political successes and strategic gains across the larger Middle East allow it to assume the role of a dominant external force, or will it continue to play a more limited role in the sub-region’s strategic affairs? This chapter will offer some critical reflections of the evolution of Russia’s engagement with the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula after the collapse of the Soviet Union; identify its current strategic interests vis-à-vis the sub-region; consider major socio-economic vectors which allow Moscow’s deeper interaction with it, and finally critically assess Russia’s capacity to expand its influence by exercising national military power across the Gulf. 2022 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95365 10.4324/9781003298458-18 English Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Security, International Muraviev, Alexey Russia |
| title | Russia |
| title_full | Russia |
| title_fullStr | Russia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Russia |
| title_short | Russia |
| title_sort | russia |
| topic | Security, International |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95365 |