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Alliances and Antagonisms: Russia and the United States in the Middle East
September 19, 20197:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In English, with simultaneous translation into Spanish.
Casa Árabe and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Regional Program for
the Southern Mediterranean have organized this conference on Thursday,
September 19 in Madrid.
It will be given by Dalia Dassa Kaye, the director of the Center for Public Policy in the Middle East and North Africa of the RAND Corporation, and Yury Barmin, the Director of the Middle East and North Africa at the Moscow Policy Group. Moderated by: Barah Mikaïl, the director of the consulting firm Stractegia and an associate professor at Saint Louis University in Madrid.
According to analysts of the international system, Moscow has not managed to recover the level of influence it held prior to the Soviet Union’s collapse. However, Russia’s increasing involvement in the Middle East region seems to be turning this trend around, and it is by no means the result of chance. Moscow’s current commitment to state and non-state role-players (such as Syria, Iran and Israel, as well as the Taliban) forms part of a strategy well thought out at the Kremlin. As for the ups and downs in American policy in the region, they have grown more acute under the Trump administration and are bringing up serious questions about traditional patterns of alliances. In an ever more complex chessboard with changing alliance, it is essential to take a closer look at Moscow and Washington to analyze the role played by these major powers and their effects on regional geopolitics.
Dalia Dassa Kaye is the director of the Center for Public Policy on the Middle East and a political analyst for the RAND Corporation. From 2011 to 2012, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and from 1998 to 2003 at George Washington University. Kaye has published a great deal on regional security-related topics involving the Middle East, in media such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Reuters, as well as others. She has authored Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia (RAND), and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Columbia University Press). She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Yury Barmin is the Middle East and North Africa Director at the Moscow Policy Group. He has worked with governmental and private clients at the CCG, advising them on political risks and opportunities, as well as providing broad coverage on Russia’s role in regional affairs. His academic interests include the Middle East and North Africa, Moscow’s policy towards the region, and the conflicts in Syria and Libya. He is an export on Russia’s International Affairs Council. He regularly contributes to the portal Al-Monitor, the Middle East Institute and the Al Sharq Forum. Barmin has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Cambridge University.
According to analysts of the international system, Moscow has not managed to recover the level of influence it held prior to the Soviet Union’s collapse. However, Russia’s increasing involvement in the Middle East region seems to be turning this trend around, and it is by no means the result of chance. Moscow’s current commitment to state and non-state role-players (such as Syria, Iran and Israel, as well as the Taliban) forms part of a strategy well thought out at the Kremlin. As for the ups and downs in American policy in the region, they have grown more acute under the Trump administration and are bringing up serious questions about traditional patterns of alliances. In an ever more complex chessboard with changing alliance, it is essential to take a closer look at Moscow and Washington to analyze the role played by these major powers and their effects on regional geopolitics.
Dalia Dassa Kaye is the director of the Center for Public Policy on the Middle East and a political analyst for the RAND Corporation. From 2011 to 2012, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and from 1998 to 2003 at George Washington University. Kaye has published a great deal on regional security-related topics involving the Middle East, in media such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Reuters, as well as others. She has authored Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia (RAND), and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process (Columbia University Press). She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Yury Barmin is the Middle East and North Africa Director at the Moscow Policy Group. He has worked with governmental and private clients at the CCG, advising them on political risks and opportunities, as well as providing broad coverage on Russia’s role in regional affairs. His academic interests include the Middle East and North Africa, Moscow’s policy towards the region, and the conflicts in Syria and Libya. He is an export on Russia’s International Affairs Council. He regularly contributes to the portal Al-Monitor, the Middle East Institute and the Al Sharq Forum. Barmin has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Cambridge University.
