{"id":7911,"date":"2016-05-28T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:01","slug":"professor-piotr-dutkiewicz-publishes-research-paper-syrian-civil-war-russian-iranian-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2016\/professor-piotr-dutkiewicz-publishes-research-paper-syrian-civil-war-russian-iranian-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"EURUS Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz Publishes Research Paper on Syrian Civil War and Russian-Iranian Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n EURUS Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz Publishes Research Paper on Syrian Civil War and Russian-Iranian Relations\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

EURUS Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz<\/a> has co-publisheda paper with Dr. Nikolay Kozhanov entitled “Civil War in Syria and the Evolution of Russian \u2013 Iranian Relations”. The research paper can be found here<\/a>, and a summary is included below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad enter a hall during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, October 20, 2015. Picture taken October 20, 2015. REUTERS\/Alexei Druzhinin\/RIA Novosti\/Kremlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The current level of confrontation between Russia and the West\u2014unprecedented since the end of the Cold War\u2014has resulted in Russia\u2019s pursuit of strengthened ties with many Middle Eastern countries. A series of \u201cstrategic\u201d and \u201ctactical\u201d factors determined the escalation of Russia\u2019s involvement in Syria from its role as a supplier of military hardware and political support, to its direct military intervention in the civil war and war against the ISIL. Amongst the strategic factors, the most important was the Russian elite\u2019s intention to break the \u201cstrategic deadlock\u201d that kept Russia subordinated to \u201cwestern rules and domination\u201d that were diminishing and constraining Moscow\u2019s use of sovereign power domestically and internationally. A set of tactical factors includes a mix of geopolitical, military-industrial, economic and ideological drivers such as Russia\u2019s belief in the necessity of avoiding the collapse of a friendly regime; the protection of Russia’s national security; the importance of preventing Muslim radicalism from destabilizing the region; challenging current regimes in the post-Soviet space and\u2014to a certain extent-challenging the West. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow\u2019s involvement in the Syrian conflict had a direct impact on Russian relations with the Middle East. Specifically, it created a solid base for the development of Russian cooperation with Iran. Currently, Moscow and Tehran formed a marriage of convenience in Syria where each partner tries to reach its own goals through joint efforts. However this form of cooperation does not exclude the possibility of future rifts between the two countries. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow\u2019s engagement in Syria also added a new layer of contact, coordination and cooperation between Russia and Israel. This, in turn, resulted in the upgrade of Russian-Israeli ties to a \u201cspecial relations\u201d status. The harsh reaction from a large part of the Middle East to Russia\u2019s military involvement in Syria compelled Moscow to intensify its attempts to bring some of the Arab countries onto the Russian side in order to dilute the emerging anti-Russian camp in the region. Subsequently, the Kremlin found support in Egypt. Cairo not only praised Moscow\u2019s actions in Syria but also became actively involved in the process of the revitalization of the diplomatic track of the Syrian crisis settlement. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow\u2019s intensified involvement in the regional affairs can also have a direct influence on Russian relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. After a few years of minimal contact, a combination of power shifts, new security threats in the Middle East, and a shift in GCC foreign policies that became slightly less allied with the US, contributed to a recent boost in Russian\u2013Saudi relations with repercussions for other GCC members<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EURUS Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz has co-publisheda paper with Dr. Nikolay Kozhanov entitled “Civil War in Syria and the Evolution of Russian \u2013 Iranian Relations”. The research paper can be found here, and a summary is included below:   The current level of confrontation between Russia and the West\u2014unprecedented since the end of the Cold War\u2014has resulted in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7922,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/7922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}