MIDEAST POLICY BRIEF 03 2023 Transactional Alliances: The Impact of the Ukraine War on the Middle East Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had Brief Points a significant impact on geopolitics • The Ukraine war is framed as a in the Middle East, challenging es- global power struggle by the Global tablished alliances and creating new North and South alike. [...] In so doing, Norwegian foreign policy towards the region, Egypt has balanced existing relations with This understanding of the war as a global given Norway’s multilateral approach and nor- the US and the European Union (EU) against power competition resonates in the Middle mative liberal agenda. [...] However, in the Middle East, the war is economic relations with Russia (evidenced in not framed in existential terms, with the un- Russia’s Interests in the Middle East the comprehensive partnership agreement of derlying threat to liberal democracy implicit in 2018).5 Russian arms exports to the MENA re- Stoltenberg’s warning. [...] The political footprint” strategy in the Middle East, raising logical campaign against the West and its liberal landscape is shifting fast, which is challenging concerns about the US role in the region. [...] paign against the “spiritual disaster” of the West Notes Available at: www.reuters.com/world/india/ that seeks to “bless same-sex marriages” and the iran-china-russia-hold-naval-drills-north-indian- “destruction of the family, of cultural and national 1.
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