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Alexandr Svaranc

PhD in political science, professor

Israel and Saudi Arabia - Will it be against or for the agreement?

Relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia remain far from being stable. Meanwhile, Riyadh and Tel Aviv, despite the Arab-Jewish confrontation, had in fact maintained informal relations until 1967. This conflict was marked by the presence of a common antagonist in Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who backed the Republicans in Yemen’s civil war against the Royalists, who in turn was backed by the Saudis. After Israel’s 1967 seizure of Jerusalem (al-Quds) and the Islamic shrine of al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, the situation in Saudi-Israeli relations…

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Will Senator Robert Menendez decide the fate of Sweden’s NATO membership?

For more than a year now, since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the question of admitting two North European countries, Finland and Sweden, to NATO has been on the table. As you know, Helsinki and Stockholm chose to abandon their neutral status and apply for NATO membership in March 2022. It is clear that Russia did not pose a nuclear or other military threat to Sweden or Finland. Furthermore, Moscow has always respected the neutrality of its Scandinavian neighbors in Stockholm and Helsinki…

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No matter how hard the West tries, there is no order without Russia...

The protracted military-political crisis between Russia and Ukraine has been a hot topic on the world’s agenda for more than a year now. The author will not go back to the reasons that laid the foundation for this most extensive conflict in Europe since World War II. In short, the Collective West, led by the US, has put a lot of effort into this by ignoring the strategic security interests of a nuclear superpower (Russia), and by breaking its own promises following the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact of not moving NATO…

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Iran Turkey

What is behind the current tension in Turkish-Iranian relations?

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Israel, After All, Fears Iran...

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Aleksandar Vučić was “offended” by Erdoğan?

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Turkish economy has to adjust to new challenges

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What does Sweden have to do with whether or not Turkey will be accepted to the EU?

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