23. Burden of road injuries in United Arab Emirates and the Middle East region

Located in the Middle East region, Dubai has to face the reality to compete with other countries in a business that only consists of the oil market. However, it was predicted that in the year of 2005, Dubai’s oil resources will be run out. After the establishment of United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai has slowly shown its progress significantly. Started as a desert civilization who didn’t have anything into a metropolitan country with all of the majesties which is considered as a world class level, often called as the Singapore of the Middle East. However, the success of Dubai can't be separated from the foreign policy created by its leader, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who is often called as the CEO of Dubai. After pointed as the leader of Dubai Defense Force by his father, Sheikh Rashid, Sheikh Mohammed began to help his father. He finally took the position as Emir of Dubai in 2006 after his brother Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum died. Through this paper, the writer is going explore the foreign policy created by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. The analysis itself is going to use Idiosyncratic Theory created by Margareth Hermann as a theoretical framework.

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Deepening Saudi-Emirati cooperation may be divisive

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db236005 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Middle East ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Gulf Cooperation Council ◽

Strategic Partnership ◽

Content Type ◽

Inaugural Meeting ◽

East Region ◽

Middle East Region

Subject Saudi-Emirati strategic partnership. Significance The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are accelerating their strategic partnership. On June 6 they held the inaugural meeting of the Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council (SECC), signalling increased assertiveness and a deliberate turning-away from the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The partnership has become pivotal for the region but has delivered mixed results. Impacts The new SECC will eclipse the troubled GCC as the driver of Gulf policies and may deter US efforts to convene a GCC summit in September. Excluded Kuwait and Oman may look for other regional ties, as they face increasing pressure from the Saudi-Emirati duo. The two countries’coordination against Iran will define long-term alliances in the Middle East region.

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Malaysia’s Relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran: Juggling the Interests

Contemporary Review of the Middle East ◽

10.1177/2347798917744294 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 46-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mohd Fauzi Abu–Hussin ◽

Asmady Idris ◽

Mohd Afandi Salleh

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Middle East ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Economic Relationships ◽

East Region ◽

Trading Partners ◽

The Government ◽

The Persian Gulf ◽

Middle East Region

The Middle East region, especially the oil-rich Arab economies, is regarded as one of Malaysia’s important economic and trading partners. Economic and political changes at the global and regional level have simultaneously shifted Malaysia’s interests in the region. At the same time, there has also been rising interest from countries in the region to expand their economic relationships with Malaysia. Apart from the United Arab Emirates, which is Malaysia’s largest trading partner in the Middle East region, Saudi Arabia and Iran are now becoming more visible for their contributions toward the Malaysian economy. Economic interest certainly is the main driving force behind the latter’s efforts to enhance its connection with these countries. Efforts to reap economic benefit from these countries and to attract petro-dollar investments would also have negative consequences on Malaysia’s domestic, social, and religious affairs due to an influx of Arab and Iranian people coming into the country. Religious extremism and sectarianism are among the challenges that Malaysia is encountering and the authorities are quite critical of those ideologies, and over the years, the teaching of Wahhabism and Shiism have been banned in the country. Could this affect Malaysia’s connection with those countries in the Persian Gulf? How has the government engaged with these local issues without jeopardizing its economic inter-connection with Saudi Arabia and Iran? Given that they are two contrasting countries, how has Malaysia balanced its relationships with these two states?

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In Quest of a Second Boom

Contemporary Arab Affairs ◽

10.1525/caa.2018.000015 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1-2) ◽

pp. 257-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shirzad Azad

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Middle East ◽

Crucial Role ◽

Gulf Cooperation Council ◽

East Region ◽

Personal Motivation ◽

Policy Measures ◽

The Republic ◽

Middle East Region ◽

Different Parts

In spite of her troubled presidency at home and premature, ignominious exit from power, Park Geun-hye made serious attempts to bolster the main direction of the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) foreign policy toward the Middle East. A collaborative drive for accomplishing a new momentous boom was by and large a dominant and recurring theme in the Park government’s overall approach to the region. Park enjoyed both personal motivation as well as politico-economic justifications to push for such arduous yet potentially viable objective. Although the ROK’s yearning for a second boom in the Middle East was not ultimately accomplished under the Park presidency, nonetheless, the very aspiration played a crucial role in either rekindling or initiating policy measures in South Korea’s orientation toward different parts of a greater Middle East region, extending from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to Morocco.

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Regional and international strategic visions of actors In the Middle East

Tikrit Journal For Political Science ◽

10.25130/poltic.v0i0.180 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 581

Author(s):

Mohammed Moazaz Iskandar Al - Hadithi

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

East Region ◽

Middle East Region

The Middle East region is of great importance in the strategic realization of regional and international actors. Therefore, the hypothesis that the research tries to prove is that the Middle East region is of great strategic importance due to the set of constituents, whether civilizational, economic or geopolitical. The emergence of different strategic visions, whether regional or international actors in the region.

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US and Russian policies and strategies in the Middle East: Iraq and Syria as a model

Tikrit Journal For Political Science ◽

10.25130/poltic.v0i0.165 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 220

Author(s):

Esraa Aladdin Noori ◽

Nasser Zain AlAbidine Ahmed

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

East Asia ◽

Balance Of Power ◽

Western World ◽

International Conflicts ◽

The South ◽

The West ◽

The North ◽

East Region ◽

Middle East Region

The Russian-American relations have undergone many stages of conflict and competition over cooperation that have left their mark on the international balance of power in the Middle East. The Iraqi and Syrian crises are a detailed development in the Middle East region. The Middle East region has allowed some regional and international conflicts to intensify, with the expansion of the geopolitical circle, which, if applied strategically to the Middle East region, covers the area between Afghanistan and East Asia, From the north to the Maghreb to the west and to the Sudan and the Greater Sahara to the south, its strategic importance will seem clear. It is the main lifeline of the Western world.

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Turkey’s foreign policy priorities in the Middle East and Afghanistan

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii202010statyi59 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (10-3) ◽

pp. 228-237

Author(s):

Marina Shpakovskaya ◽

Oleg Barnashov ◽

Arian Mohammad Hassan Shershah ◽

Asadullah Noori ◽

Mosa Ziauddin Ahmad

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Middle East ◽

The United States ◽

Turkish Foreign Policy ◽

Security Issues ◽

New Approaches ◽

East Region ◽

History Of ◽

Middle East Region

The article discusses the features and main approaches of Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East. Particular attention is paid to the history of the development of Turkish-American relations. The causes of the contradictions between Turkey and the United States on the security issues of the Middle East region are analyzed. At the same time, the commonality of the approaches of both countries in countering radical terrorism in the territories adjacent to Turkey is noted. The article also discusses the priority areas of Turkish foreign policy, new approaches and technologies in the first decade of the XXI century.

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