Russia and the Arab Revolutions

Author(s): Roland Dannreuther
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 98
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute of History, University of Basel
Publication Year: 2011

From the perspective of the Kremlin, the revolutionary developments in the Middle East, which have seen longstanding leaders depart from power in Tunisia and Egypt and severely threatened other Arab regimes, has been far from a cause for celebration. Given the premium that the current Russian political leadership has given to ensuring stability and order after the instabilities and disorders of the 1990s, this is not perhaps surprising. In the current configuration of international relations, Russia is a profoundly conservative power, upholding traditional understandings of sovereignty and the principle of non-intervention along with its allies from other emerging powers, such as China and India.

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