Experts Discuss Key Challenges in the Middle East 🗣
On February 21, the Gorchakov Fund hosted a panel session titled "The Middle East: Permanent Instability?", moderated by Ruslan Mamedov, PhD in History, Scientific Adviser of the Primakov Center, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
The panel featured the following speakers:
🔵Vasily Kuznetsov, Doctor of Political Science, PhD in History, Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
🔵Volkan Özdemir, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies ATASAM (Turkey)
🔵Anas Joudeh, President of the National Building Movement (Syria)
The experts discussed prospects for regional stabilization and the influence of global actors on political processes in the Middle East. They highlighted the "poverty of ideas" in the region concerning challenges of development and the formation of a regional security system. The discussion also focused on the role of political Islam, Pan-Arabism, and national identity in the current geopolitical landscape.
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