Middle East

10

Nov

Election, Middle East, North America, policy, Strategy, the United States, West Asia

How do the North American elections influence West Asia?

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - While there are conflicting positions in West Asia between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Qatar, there are likely to be some changes, but not substantive, in the United States' relationship with West Asia. The relationship with Israel is historic as it is considered a satellite state of the United States. With Trump's administration the relationship was practically carnal, the United States supported each of the violations of international law by Israel. Some examples of this were the transfer of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Deal of the Century…

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05

Nov

Algeria, Conflict, Middle East, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey

The conflict between Middle East regional powers is drawing in Morocco and Algeria.

BY: Andrew Hanna PEJOURNAL - Morocco notched a diplomatic win this week as the United Arab Emirates opened a consulate in the Western Sahara, where Rabat has long sought international recognition of its claim over the disputed territory. It also signaled a troubling regional shift. The hostility between Turkey and the Saudi-aligned Arab states risks embroiling the Maghreb region, much as it already complicates conflicts and politics from Libya to the Red Sea region. In North Africa, as across the greater Middle East, a widening of the Turkish-Saudi confrontation is heightening the risks of destabilization and threats to U.S. regional…

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05

Nov

Anti Islamism, Charlie Hebdo, France, Macron, Middle East, Terrorism

The hypocrisy of France

BY: Hanieh Tarkian PEJOURNAL - France tries in every way to encourage the clash between peoples and religions, after having favored a globalized and mondialist society, in which no more space is left for religious and cultural identities, favored the culture of nihilism, encouraged an ultra-laicist vision of society, but on the other hand strengthened the alliance with countries that economically and ideologically finance terrorism in the Middle East, given asylum to individuals linked to terrorist groups and having instead opposed countries such as Syria and Iran that have fought against terrorism. Unfortunately, we can see the proliferation of groups…

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02

Nov

energy economy, Energy Security, Europe, Middle East, Oil, renewable energy

Countries that are reliant on oil face uncertainty as renewable energy gain ground

BY: Paul Cochrane PEJOURNAL - The theory of peak oil, whereby the cost of extraction would exceed how much consumers were willing to pay while demand outstripped supply, was first floated more than 60 years ago. Oil production, geologist M King Hubbert predicted, would peak by the turn of the millennium. That didn’t happen - but the spectre of peak oil raised its head again in the mid-2000s, in part pushed by Matthew Simmons’ book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. Simmons argued that Saudi Arabia had inflated its colossal oil reserves - a…

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01

Nov

Iran, Middle East, Modeling, regional policy, regional strategy, West Asia

Modeling in Iran’s regional strategy

PEJOURNAL - In this article, the modeling strategy in Iran's regional policy in West Asia is examined and the successes and limitations in this field are evaluated. The victory of the revolution set a precedent for the Islamic countries of West Asia to take steps to achieve their goals. The anti-arrogance and anti-authoritarian nature of the revolution was attractive to the oppressed nations of the region, and its continuation in the form of the Islamic Republic and resistance to foreign powers added to this attractiveness. Therefore, the modeling of some West Asian countries from Iran has continued with intensity and…

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14

Oct

Asia-centric policy, code name, Hillary Clinton, Hong Kong, International Republican Institute, Middle East, National Endowment for Democracy, Parit Penguin Chiwarak, South East Asia, Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, US strategy, Young Southeast Asia Leaders Initiative

The United States strategy to replicate Middle East events’ in Southeast Asia

PEJOURNAL - The United States reiterates its "soft power" strategy, similar to when it sought to ride the wave of North African youth revolution in the midst of the 2011 Arab revolutions, targeting China's allies in East Asia. This strategy has been pursued by the United States directly for years in the internal affairs of other nations around the world. The "youth" groups, which now take part in protests across East Asia from Hong Kong to Thailand and are funded by the United States government funding, are the result of years of the United States efforts to influence, recruit, deceive…

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10

Oct

EU, Europe, JCPOA, Middle East, NUCLEAR, Persian Gulf, regional security, UAE, UN Resolution 2231, UNSC, USA, West Asia

Generalization of JCPOA to regional security

PEJOURNAL - Strategic Think Tank of explanation- A recent report from the Carnegie think tank has assessed the possibility of extending the JCPOA to a collective security plan in West Asia by Europe. The think tank is one of America's most famous think tanks in the field of public policy that founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish capitalist in the steel market, with the aim of expanding US international cooperation, it now has branches in the European Union, Russia, China and Lebanon in addition to the United States. This report was written by Cornelius Adebahr, a researcher at…

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14

Sep

Abraham Accord, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Bahrain, France, Iran, Israel, Middle East, North Africa, Persian Gulf, Pooya Mirzaei, Qasem Soleimani, The UAE, the United States, West of Asia

Abraham Accord, beginning of a new order in Middle East

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The order of events in Middle East, North Africa and West of Asia from the beginning of the 2020, was so rapid that when we think about the geopolitical arrangement of the region in last year, it seems that we are looking deep in history. After the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani and his friend, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, military and security arrangement of all fronts in Middle East has changed into a new order. Riots in Iraq and Lebanon as the main regional allies of Iran, new government in Iraq, Beirut suspicious blast, death…

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06

Sep

England, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Middle East, Sykes-Picot, West Asia

French Dream in West Asia

The history of France's presence in West Asia goes back to the secret agreement between Britain and France called the "Sykes-Picot" or Asia Minor Agreement, which was signed on May 9, 1916 during World War I and with Russia's consent to partition. The Ottoman Empire was divided and led to the formation of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine between France and Britain.These areas were previously under Ottoman Turkish control, and now, 104 years after the agreement, France is once again dreaming of being in the area. "Emmanuel Macron" is thinking of taking advantage of the catastrophic event of the terrible explosion…

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04

Aug

Europe, foreign policy, Middle East, Russia, USA

Political Economy Journal: Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East

BY: Daniel Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - In 1787, with several European ambassadors, the Russian Empress Catherine II visited Crimea. The purpose of the trip was to reassure and deceive the ambassadors before a new war against the Sublime Porte with regard to Russia’s true power ability. To this end, Crimean Governor Grigory Potemkin set up mobile villages full of soldiers dressed as farmers to show a fake picture of a fully developed countryside with flourishing agricultural activity. Since then, ‘Potemkin settlements’  have become synonymous with diplomatic deceit and have had a profound influence on the history of Russian foreign policy.  As…

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