The foreign policy and political anthropology of the Middle East

Аннотация

Developing the idea of the Arab world or region, Egyptian researchers R. AlBustani and F. Fargus, analyzing regional processes starting with the formation of modern states, do not use the term the Middle East, but write about the Arab world, Arab states, North Africa, East Africa, the "Fertile Crescent" of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula. Another Egyptian scholar, M. Muallim, notes that the Middle East is a region from Iran in the east to Libya in the west, and from Turkey in the north to the southern borders of the Arabian Peninsula and in Africa to the southern borders of Sudan. Such a Middle East is a political concept, and, in his opinion, it is better to use the term "AsiaAfrican region", which includes all the specifics of the territories, from the geograp location at the junction of Europe, Asia, Africa, and ending with energy resources. Some scholars compare the excesses of the "Arab Spring" and its consequences with such powerful historical cataclysms as the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of national Arab formations after the First World War. In the current situation, the diplomacy of Uzbekistan should help in the settlement of conflicts and a positive political and economic transformation of the Middle East and have a solid analytical foundation.