MIDDLE AND GREATER MIDDLE EAST: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP VECTORS

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  O. Khamray

Abstract

The author looks at the current state and prospects of strategic partnerships between the countries of the region as well as with nations whose strategic interests in this region are strong enough to influence the politics and economics of the region both as a whole and on the level of individual states.

Special attention is paid to dependence of political events and economic processes taking place in the region on the state of energy extracting component of economy of the countries in the region.

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Khamray, O. (2012). MIDDLE AND GREATER MIDDLE EAST: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP VECTORS. The Oriental Studies, (60), 203-230. https://doi.org/10.15407/skhodoznavstvo2012.60.203
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Keywords

Middle and Greater Middle East: Strategic Partnership Vectors

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