The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles
The Eastern Mediterranean in recent years has become an arena of growing activity of regional states causing tensions among them. The importance of this region from political and military point of view combined with its strategic value in the world energy markets underpins the growing involvement of...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2021-12-01
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| description | The Eastern Mediterranean in recent years has become an arena of growing activity of regional states causing tensions among them. The importance of this region from political and military point of view combined with its strategic value in the world energy markets underpins the growing involvement of the UAE, a non-regional actor that lately has become deeply engaged in the regional agenda. Due to the fact that the UAE has taken up a quite active foreign policy course outside of its traditional Gulf circle only recently - with the Eastern Mediterranean becoming a new area of Emirati activities - the volume and scope of Russian and foreign research on this topic is rather limited. The existing works that in some way cover issues of the UAE foreign policy do not reflect the increasing influence of this small Gulf state in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond. For this reason, there is a need for complex research on the matter. This paper is based on analysis of existing works on topics related to some aspects of Emirati foreign policy and tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as analytical articles and statistics. The dramatically increased interest of the UAE in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of significant transformations in the monarchys foreign policy that have been taking place since early 2010s. These transformations manifest themselves in new goals and purposes of Emirati foreign policy, its expanding scale and new instruments for its implementation. Not only is the UAE policy in the Eastern Mediterranean consistent with its general goal of containing Turkey and fighting the threat of Islamism, but it is also a part of realizing Emirati global ambitions of becoming a leader in energy and logistics and ensuring its international status as an influential actor. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f37774998d494d18bef865d4abcf30e12023-02-02T00:57:42ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Vestnik RUDN. International Relations2313-06602313-06792021-12-0121467168210.22363/2313-0660-2021-21-4-671-68220807The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and PrinciplesTatiana I. Tyukaeva0Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of SciencesThe Eastern Mediterranean in recent years has become an arena of growing activity of regional states causing tensions among them. The importance of this region from political and military point of view combined with its strategic value in the world energy markets underpins the growing involvement of the UAE, a non-regional actor that lately has become deeply engaged in the regional agenda. Due to the fact that the UAE has taken up a quite active foreign policy course outside of its traditional Gulf circle only recently - with the Eastern Mediterranean becoming a new area of Emirati activities - the volume and scope of Russian and foreign research on this topic is rather limited. The existing works that in some way cover issues of the UAE foreign policy do not reflect the increasing influence of this small Gulf state in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond. For this reason, there is a need for complex research on the matter. This paper is based on analysis of existing works on topics related to some aspects of Emirati foreign policy and tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as analytical articles and statistics. The dramatically increased interest of the UAE in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of significant transformations in the monarchys foreign policy that have been taking place since early 2010s. These transformations manifest themselves in new goals and purposes of Emirati foreign policy, its expanding scale and new instruments for its implementation. Not only is the UAE policy in the Eastern Mediterranean consistent with its general goal of containing Turkey and fighting the threat of Islamism, but it is also a part of realizing Emirati global ambitions of becoming a leader in energy and logistics and ensuring its international status as an influential actor.http://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/viewFile/29813/20168uae foreign policyeastern mediterraneanturkish-uae rivalryegyptian-uae cooperationisraeli-uae cooperationlibyan crisisfrench-emirati cooperation |
| spellingShingle | Tatiana I. Tyukaeva The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles Vestnik RUDN. International Relations uae foreign policy eastern mediterranean turkish-uae rivalry egyptian-uae cooperation israeli-uae cooperation libyan crisis french-emirati cooperation |
| title | The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles |
| title_full | The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles |
| title_short | The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles |
| title_sort | eastern mediterranean in uae foreign policy goals and principles |
| topic | uae foreign policy eastern mediterranean turkish-uae rivalry egyptian-uae cooperation israeli-uae cooperation libyan crisis french-emirati cooperation |
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