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Russia and the GCC: An Unlikely Partnership

by Yury Barmin
This memo was presented part of a workshop organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the RAND Corporation looking at Russia’s strategy in the Middle East on 28 March 2018. 

Russia’s return to the Middle East has been characterised by the ambition to overturn the existing status quo in the region. Power projection in Syria has empowered Moscow to […]

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    GCC–Russia Relations: Looking beyond Syria and towards Investment

GCC–Russia Relations: Looking beyond Syria and towards Investment

by Courtney Freer
This memo was presented part of a workshop organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the RAND Corporation looking at Russia’s strategy in the Middle East on 28 March 2018. 

Discussions of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)–Russia relations have been dominated by their diverging approaches regarding Syria and Iran since 2011. When it comes to Russia, however, the Gulf […]

Russia’s Strategy in the Middle East

by Becca Wasser

Russia’s 2015 intervention in Syria, which caught many by surprise, seemingly heralded Moscow’s triumphant return to the Middle East. But Russia had in fact been edging its way back into the region since at least 2007, emphasising political and economic relations over security relationships. While Syria may not have been the start of Russia’s involvement in the […]

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