Europe and Major-Power Shifts in the Middle East

Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2021: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 77-97
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Place: Zürich

As the US scales down its ambitions in the Middle East, Russia has returned to the region, and China’s engagement too is on the rise. Such shifts in great-power engagement are generating increased regional instability, as well as enhancing the capacity of China and Russia to shape outcomes in the Middle East. These developments risk undermining Europe’s ability to promote its interests and normative agenda.

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US Forces in the Middle East

Arms Deliveries to the Middle East

Crude Oil Imports from the Middle East