The Middle East and North Africa: Strategic Competition, Energy and Security. Reconfiguring the Global Balance
The Middle East and North Africa have become the testing ground of the multipolar order. Here intersect the new forms of power: economic, energetic, technological, and informational. Here, too, the parameters of European security are indirectly being shaped. The region is no longer merely an object of great power competition, but an autonomous actor capable of influencing global trends.