CURRENT EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Mgr. Eva Taterová, M.A., Ph.D.
Politics and Society in the Middle East
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NEW COLD WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
•1. "Saudi" - inaccurately "Sunni" bloc
•maintaining the conservative regimes of the Middle East (mainly Saudis, UAE + Bahrain, Egypt) +
Israel
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•2. "Iranian" - inaccurately "Shiite" bloc
•Iran, Syria, Lebanese Hezbollah, largely the government in Iraq
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•3. Qatar and Turkey
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•Proxy Wars - Iraq, Syria, Yemen, etc.




TURKEY AS A NEW KEY PLAYER
•Member of NATO (2nd strongest army).
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•Fighting Kurds (YPG / PKK).
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•It benefits from the problems of Syria.
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•An important role in the context of the migration crisis.
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•Increasing domestic and foreign influence of President Erdogan.
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•Business partner of the United States.
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EU AND MIGRATION CRISIS
•Start in 2015 – sharp increase in the number of migrants – over a million people came.
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•EU response was quite slow.
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•Cooperation of neighbouring countries is crucial for tackling illegal migration.
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•Most problematic border is Turkey-Greece – FRONTEX action needed – Treaty with Turkey.
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•Currently most people come through Spain, but the numbers are much smaller.
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MORIA CAMP, GREECE
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CHANGE OF ISRAELI POSITION
•Move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018.
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•Normalization of the diplomatic relations with selected Muslim countries in 2020:
•United Arab Emirates.
•Bahrain.
•Sudan.
•Morocco.
•Intensifying cooperation between Israel and the Sunni countries of the region.
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•Arab-Israeli conflict is no longer the dividing line of the region – Has the world forgotten the
Palestinians?
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Israel

CRISIS ISRAEL vs. HAMAS (2021)



CURRENT POLITICAL CHALLENGES
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•Change in US foreign policy - gradual abandonment of the Middle East X increase of Russian and
Chinese influence in the region (COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy).
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•Post-conflict reconstruction, high unemployment in post-war states (Iraq, Syria).
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•High debt and corruption.
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•Political and religious instability.
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•Missing and insufficient infrastructure.
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•Consequences of covid-19 pandemic.

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