The Ukraine Crisis and the Middle East
March 16, 2022
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Md Muddassir Quamar’s op-ed piece ‘The Ukraine crisis and the middle east’ has been published in Financial Express Online, on 16 March 2022.
The Peace argues that ‘the responses of the Middle Eastern countries to the Russian invasion of Ukraine underline that regional countries are increasingly becoming independent in their foreign policy objectives and choices. This reflects the changing nature of international politics, their bilateral relations with the US, and the shifting focus of the US away from the region. However, to deduce this as weakening of US alliances in the Middle East or writing it off as the dominant regional power should be done at its peril.
