Benchmarks of the realistic security policy of the Russian Federation in the Middle East: from the collapse of the Soviet Empire to the war in Syria
Benchmarks of the realistic security policy of the Russian Federation in the Middle East: from the collapse of the Soviet Empire to the war in Syria

Summary/Abstract: If the end of the Cold War put somehow the thinkers of the realistic school in difficulty because of the inconsistency of the arguments explaining the occurrence of this event with global geopolitical implications, September 11, 2001 brought the realist school back to the forefront of the debates regarding the clarification of the phenomena and processes in the international sphere. At the height of the unipolar era the Russian-Georgian War of 2008 represented the time of Russia’s resurgence in the international arena, the realpolitik promoted by the Kremlin leadership identifying itself with the strategy of the neo-imperial Russian State at the beginning of the third millennium. This article aims to highlight certain aspects of the realistic policy of the Russian Federation in the field of the application of security strategies in relation to Middle East States, from the collapse of the Soviet Empire to the war in Syria.

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