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Moscow and Washington in the Middle East: A new balance of power
February 15, 2017 7:00 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 and Spanish, with simultaneous translation.
Maxim Suchkov and Barah Mikaïl analyze the foreign policy of Russia and the United States in the region.
On the occasion of the presentation of Issue 13 of the Awraq journal dedicated to Iraq, Casa Árabe has organized a conference, the objective of which is to analyze the foreign policy of Russia and the United States in the Middle East. The event will include contributions by Maxim Suchkov, editor of the Russia-Middle East section at Al-Monitor and an expert on Russia’s International Affairs Council, and by Barah Mikaïl, director of the consulting firm Stractegia and a professor of International Security at Saint Louis University in Madrid. Moderated by Karim Hauser, who is responsible for the Governance Area at Casa Árabe.
Has the era of Pax Americana ended in the Middle East? The preceding government headed by Barack Obama in Washington broke with the United States’ traditional interventionism in the Middle East, despite its air war against the uprise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The unwillingness to use ground forces in Iraq or Syria and the decision to let Russia play the main role in the Middle East has shuffled up the power mix in the region. Moscow has also re-assessed its calculations and aligned its strategic interests with those of certain regional powers. However, Donald Trump’s rise to the American presidency poses new questions.
Maxim Suchkov
Suchkov is the editor of coverage for Russia and the Middle East at the web portal Al-Monitor, as well as being an expert on Russia’s International Affairs Council. He is also an associate professor of International Relations and an assistant research director at the School of International Relations at the State University of Pyatigorsk located in Russia’s North Caucasus. Prior to this, he was a visiting Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University (2010-11) and New York University (2015). He is the author of Essays on Russian Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and the Middle East.
Barah Mikaïl
Mikaïl is the director of the consulting firm Stractegia and an associate professor at Saint Louis University in Madrid. He is an expert on the Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU and US policy on the Middle East, and political, economic and security-related affairs. He has been a senior researcher at FRIDE (2011-2015) and the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) in Paris, specializing in the MENA region and water-related topics (2002-2010). Barah Mikaïl was a professor at the Collège Interarmées de Défense of the French Defense Ministry (2005-2007), at the Université-Paris-8 Saint-Denis and at Sciences-Po Lille. He is the author of La politique américaine au Moyen-Orient (American Policy in the Middle East).
Has the era of Pax Americana ended in the Middle East? The preceding government headed by Barack Obama in Washington broke with the United States’ traditional interventionism in the Middle East, despite its air war against the uprise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The unwillingness to use ground forces in Iraq or Syria and the decision to let Russia play the main role in the Middle East has shuffled up the power mix in the region. Moscow has also re-assessed its calculations and aligned its strategic interests with those of certain regional powers. However, Donald Trump’s rise to the American presidency poses new questions.
Maxim Suchkov
Suchkov is the editor of coverage for Russia and the Middle East at the web portal Al-Monitor, as well as being an expert on Russia’s International Affairs Council. He is also an associate professor of International Relations and an assistant research director at the School of International Relations at the State University of Pyatigorsk located in Russia’s North Caucasus. Prior to this, he was a visiting Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University (2010-11) and New York University (2015). He is the author of Essays on Russian Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and the Middle East.
Barah Mikaïl
Mikaïl is the director of the consulting firm Stractegia and an associate professor at Saint Louis University in Madrid. He is an expert on the Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU and US policy on the Middle East, and political, economic and security-related affairs. He has been a senior researcher at FRIDE (2011-2015) and the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) in Paris, specializing in the MENA region and water-related topics (2002-2010). Barah Mikaïl was a professor at the Collège Interarmées de Défense of the French Defense Ministry (2005-2007), at the Université-Paris-8 Saint-Denis and at Sciences-Po Lille. He is the author of La politique américaine au Moyen-Orient (American Policy in the Middle East).
