The MENA Region Power Competition and the Challenges to Security

Szerzők

  • Dr. jur. Ilias Kouskouvelis

Kulcsszavak:

China, Greece, EU, Iran, Israel, Libya, MENA, Middle East, migration, NATO, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, terrorism, Thucydides, Turkey, USA

Absztrakt

The paper presents the challenges to stability arising in the MENA region and having a possible impact on Western peace and security. It identifies the regional actors’ efforts to maximize their power, Russia’s revisionist efforts, China’s ambitions, as well as the phenomena (or asymmetric threats) of migration and terrorism. The paper focuses on the competition of power and concludes that the strategic value of the region around the South Eastern Mediterranean has increased, that Western states should determine and coordinate their policies, and their institutions should increase their efforts and presence, cooperating, among others, with other pro-Western countries in the region.

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Dr. jur. Ilias Kouskouvelis

is a Professor of International Relations and holder of the “Thucydides Hellenic National Defense General Staff Chair in Strategic Studies” at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. He has written extensively on International Relations theory, strategic studies, decision making, European integration and Middle East affairs; he has authored seven books, more than 40 articles, and more than 300 op-eds. His most recent work is Theory of Decision Making in Thucydides (in Greek), and he is currently working on the book’s English edition under a contract with Lexington Books. Professor Kouskouvelis is directing the ‘Institute for International, European, and Defense Analyses’ (IDEA) and, among others, has served as the University’s Rector.

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Megjelent

2017-12-12

Hogyan kell idézni

Kouskouvelis, I. . (2017). The MENA Region Power Competition and the Challenges to Security . Honvédségi Szemle – Hungarian Defence Review, 145(2), 75–92. Elérés forrás https://kiadvany.magyarhonvedseg.hu/index.php/honvszemle/article/view/426

Folyóirat szám

Évf. 145 szám 2 (2017): Special Issue: Defence Review

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