Economic Roots of the Middle-East Crisis

Dipak Basu and Victoria Miroshnik
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Dipak Basu: Nagasaki University
Victoria Miroshnik: Tsukuba University

Chapter 20 in International Business and Political Economy, 2015, pp 213-219 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The invasion of Syria started in 2011, after the destruction of Libya, when Syria was a prosperous stable country with no apparent economic problems. Just like in the Ukraine and Georgia, and also in Egypt and Tunisia, some very violent crowds were hired by some strange shadowy agency, financed by a group of countries in the Arabian gulf and Turkey. The purpose was to change the regime first by creating mass demonstrations and then concerted international denouncements by mainly the Western media, followed by some violence and ultimately a change of the regime by force (Brzezinski, 1997, 2010; Rice, 2000; Shulsky and Schmitt, 2002). The same pattern was used in country after country with two major exceptions, Libya and Syria. In both cases initial mass demonstrations were followed by armed insurrections supported by foreign powers. In Libya, the foreign powers were France, the USA, the UK, and NATO, with some involvement from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Turkey. However, in Syria the armed groups came directly from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Libya, and Turkey to change the regime. The Libyan regime collapsed quickly because of the direct attacks from NATO. In Syria, NATO was not able to take part because of the opposition raised by Russia and China in the UN Security Council.

Keywords: Saudi Arabia; Security Council; Armed Group; Energy Information Administration; Submarine Pipeline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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