International Uncertainty 2020. Middle East: towards a new regional order
Russia has dramatically increased its presence and influence in the Middle East over the last several years. One of the key reasons for such a success is the ability to maintain good relations with countries that conflict with each other. However, the Middle East region has not become less explosive. Is it possible to create any stable order the region in the conditions of existing contradictions between regional and external players?
Moderator: Maria KHODYNSKAYA-GOLENISHCHEVA, Senior Advisor to the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, professor of the Department of Applied International Analysis
Speakers:
► Riad HADDAD, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian Federation
► Maxim SUCHKOV, Senior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Laboratory for International Trends Analysis
► Oktay TANRISEVER, Professor at the Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
► Georgy MACHITIDZE, Analyst at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies
Session of the 4th Moscow Conference on Political Risks and Forecasting “International Uncertainty 2020”.
The conference was organized by the Laboratory of International Trends Analysis, MGIMO University, within the framework of the research project, “Transformation of International System and the Next Innovation Wave”, which is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in accordance with the contract №14.641.31.0002 of April 26, 2018 on the allocation of a grant from the Government of the Russian Federation.
