The article analyzes the influence of SMO on the policies of
the Middle East and North Africa, attempts to identify the factors that
encourage the leaders of these countries to pursue a balanced and realistic
policy on the Ukrainian crisis. It defines the prospects for further development
of the political course of the countries in question in the context of the
formation of a multipolar system of international relations.
Keywords
the shift towards a multipolar world; the desire of the West to replace it with an ‘order under the rules’; the wariness of Arab countries regarding such subversive intentions; the balanced and pragmatic approach of the countries in the region to the SMO.