Vestnik RUDN. International RelationsVestnik RUDN. International RelationsВестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения2313-06602313-0679федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)10778ARTICLESСТАТЬИResearch ArticleThe Middle East in the Emerging Global OrderThe Middle East in the Emerging Global OrderKöchlerHansChair of Political Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropologyhans.koechler@uibk.ac.atUniversity of Innsbruck150320143Middle East: Geopolitics, Energy, “Arab Spring”Ближний Восток: геополитика, энергетика, «арабская весна»51309092016Copyright ©; 2014, Köchler H.Copyright ©; 2014, Köchler H.2014Köchler H.Köchler H.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/10778The article analyzes the consequences of socio-political transformation in the Arab world for the wider region of the Middle East. After a review of the historical background, the author draws conclusions for world order in the context of a new balance of power.Arab Springpolitical IslamMiddle East conflictUnited StatesSyriasocio-political transformationdecolonizationworld orderbalance of power1.For details see the author’s analysis: Using History to Understand Muslim-Western Relations and the «Arab Spring» / Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 1 May 2013. URL: http://www.fletcherforum.org/2013/05/01/kochler/.2.Kuehner T.J. A New Middle East? / The Newsletter of FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education. 2005, Vol. 10, No. 1. URL: http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/ 101.200501.kuehner.newmiddleeast.html.3.Kennedy P.M. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 / Random House / New York, 1987.4.Köchler H. Democracy and the New World Order / Studies in International Relations, Vol. XIX / International Progress Organization / Vienna, 1993.5.The Human Costs of War in Iraq / Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR). URL: http://cesr.org/downloads/Human%20Costs%20of%20War%20in%20Iraq.pdf, visited 5 May 2014.6.MEMORANDUM by the President of the International Progress Organization on Security Council Resolution 1973 (2011) and its Implementation by a «Coalition of the Willing» under the Leadership of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization / International Progress Organization, Doc. P/22680c, Vienna, 26 March 2011. URL: http://i-p-o.org/IPO-Memorandum-UN-Libya-26Mar11.pdf.7.Köchler H. Novye sotsial'nye media: shans ili prepyatstvie dlya dialoga? / Polis / ΠΟΛΙΣ, 2013, Vol. 136, No. 4, 75-87.8.Huntington S.P. The Clash of Civilizations? / Foreign Affairs, 1993, Vol. 72, No. 3, 22-49.