Russia in the Middle East: Friend or Foe? By Andrej Kreutz
Publisher: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth 2006-11-30 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0275993280 | PDF | 1.4 MB
Kreutz examines the goals and strategies of Russia and the former Soviet Union toward most of the Arab states in the Middle East. The author argues that Russia has been an important actor in the region for over a century and has tried to regain its influence in several countries following its strategic retreat after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s…