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.