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The Collision of New Regional and Global Order in the Middle East: A security and economic reading of the future of regional conflicts

Energy Security

7/25/2018 11:28:00 AM

 Introduction
The events of the Middle East head towards a new regional and global system, from the last quarter of 2017 to the Mid of 2018 there were Gulf Crisis, reform attempts in Saudi Arabia with the support of Trump administration, the failure of Kurdish bid for independence, the resigning of Lebanon PM Saad Hariri, killing the former president of Yemen Ali Abula Salih, the warm relations among Russia-Turkey, Iran-Turkey,  the defeat of ISIS in Iraq, New coalition of Israel-Saudi Arabia- UAE, the decision and its move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, then announcing new strategy for national security of America, the protests and demonstrations inside Iran and American threats to cancel the Nuclear deal with Iran and Group (5+1), The Turkey's aggressive attempts against Kurdish forces in North Syria. Finally the multi crisis in Iraq and its failed attempts to form the Iraqi government after the election of May, 2018. 
After Sykes Picot agreement of 1916 and Balfor treaty of 1917 some new states were established in the end of WWI, The Othoman Empire also collapsed. These new state forming attempts was based on ethnic imbalance, dividing of land and at the expense of the rights and demands of other nations. In addition this also lead to external internventions and adminsitering Middle East from outside through western colonialism which all led too a new threatening and horrific era.
There passed one hundred year of the history of Middle East still there is now security and stability in this region. Whereas all the important events taking place in MENA in the end of 2017 and begning of 2018 cannot be considered as normal events in regional security. These are only the begning of a new era for reshaping the region and creating a new regional and global system, the question is what about the nature of the regional and global order in the Middle East?. Here, This paper is a standard academic attempt by MIRS to understand more about the roles and impacts of all actors in this region. 

First Section: Saudi Arabia and Israeli coalition
Donald Trump, the USA President for the first time in his Presidency he visited Saudi Arabia on May 2017. Many political observers argued that the purpose of this visit was to mend the relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. After visiting Saudi Arabia Trump visited Israel so that both USA and Israel sort out many Middle Easters issues: among them, preventing Iranian and Shiite hegemony, Iranian interventions and meddling in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and the threat Iran poses on the security of the Arab Gulf countries. Therefore, We can argue that the political observers were right in noticing an attempt to form a coalition among Israel and Saudi Arab and this coalition become a fact in: 

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