Role of America, Russia and E.U. in the Post-Uprising Middle East

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Article 4, Volume 7, Issue 2, January 2020, Pages 105-132   

Document Type: مقالات

DOI: 10.22067/jipr.v7i2.70084

Authors

Mehdi Zibaei^* ; Reza Simbar; Ahmed Jansiz

University of Guilan

Abstract

Abstract
Following the Arab Uprisings, the concept of the Middle East order refers to the post-uprising system. Meanwhile, there are various sub-national and super-national factors are involved and each of which must be individually analyzed. The physical presence and regional policies of the international great powers such as the US, Russia and the EU significantly affect the new system. These actors prevent any indigenous regional system from taking shape. Despite the plural aspects of the Middle East system within the mentioned era, the present research only aims to explain the impact of the behavior of the US, Russia and the EU towards the Arab Uprisings and its aftermath on the regional order. So, the hypothesis is that changing in the post-Arab uprisings era is affected by diverse factors (state-society complex, Ideological conflicts, regional rivalries and implication of international setting) and in this context the key powers are effective parts in this premise. Thus, this essay tries to bring the political behaviors of United States, Russia, and the European Union towards Arab uprisings and its implications under scrutiny through the international layer of the Historical Sociology of International Relations (HSIR) as the current article theoretical framework.

Keywords

Super-national order; International milieu; Arab uprising; Middle East; Great powers

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