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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29813</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2021-21-4-671-682</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Восточное Средиземноморье во внешней политике ОАЭ: цели и принципы</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0758-4187</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Tyukaeva</surname><given-names>Tatiana I.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Тюкаева</surname><given-names>Татьяна Иршатовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Center for the Middle East Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат политических наук, научный сотрудник лаборатории «Центр ближневосточных исследований»</p></bio><email>tatyana-tyukaeva@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский институт мировой экономики и международных отношений имени Е.М. Примакова Российской академии наук</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-12-27" publication-format="electronic"><day>27</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">The Greater Mediterranean: Still Constructing the Macro-region</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Большое Средиземноморье: продолжая конструировать макрорегион</issue-title><fpage>671</fpage><lpage>682</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-12-27"><day>27</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Tyukaeva T.I.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Тюкаева Т.И.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Tyukaeva T.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Тюкаева Т.И.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/29813">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/29813</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The Eastern Mediterranean in recent years has become an arena of growing activity of regional states causing tensions among them. The importance of this region from political and military point of view combined with its strategic value in the world energy markets underpins the growing involvement of the UAE, a non-regional actor that lately has become deeply engaged in the regional agenda. Due to the fact that the UAE has taken up a quite active foreign policy course outside of its traditional Gulf circle only recently - with the Eastern Mediterranean becoming a new area of Emirati activities - the volume and scope of Russian and foreign research on this topic is rather limited. The existing works that in some way cover issues of the UAE foreign policy do not reflect the increasing influence of this small Gulf state in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond. For this reason, there is a need for complex research on the matter. This paper is based on analysis of existing works on topics related to some aspects of Emirati foreign policy and tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as analytical articles and statistics. The dramatically increased interest of the UAE in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of significant transformations in the monarchy’s foreign policy that have been taking place since early 2010s. These transformations manifest themselves in new goals and purposes of Emirati foreign policy, its expanding scale and new instruments for its implementation. Not only is the UAE policy in the Eastern Mediterranean consistent with its general goal of containing Turkey and fighting the threat of Islamism, but it is also a part of realizing Emirati global ambitions of becoming a leader in energy and logistics and ensuring its international status as an influential actor.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Регион Восточного Средиземноморья в последние годы стал зоной нарастающей активности региональных государств и источником напряженности в отношениях между ними. Важность данного региона с энергетической и военно-политической точек зрения предопределила интенсивную вовлеченность в формирующийся здесь конфликтный узел Объединенных Арабских Эмиратов (ОАЭ), нерегионального игрока, столь активно включившегося в восточно-средиземноморскую повестку и рассматривающего Восточное Средиземноморье как один из наиболее стратегически важных регионов в своей глобальной стратегии. ОАЭ относительно недавно начали проводить энергичный внешнеполитический курс, выходящий за пределы субрегиона Залива, а Восточно-Средиземноморский регион стал достаточно новым его направлением. В этой связи количество и спектр научных работ как в отечественной, так и зарубежной литературе, посвященных отдельно эмиратской внешнеполитической активности и, тем более, политике в отношении Восточного Средиземноморья, достаточно ограничены и не отражают усилившегося влияния малой монархии Залива в трансрегиональном масштабе. Это обусловливает необходимость в проведении комплексного исследования по данной проблематике. На основании анализа имеющихся научных публикаций, затрагивающих отдельные аспекты внешней политики ОАЭ и проблематики напряженности в Восточном Средиземноморье, а также изучения источников аналитического и статистического характера автор приходит к следующему выводу. Резко возросший интерес ОАЭ к Восточному Средиземноморью является частью значительных трансформаций эмиратской внешней политики, наблюдающихся с начала 2010-х гг. и включающих не только изменения в ее содержательном наполнении, но и в расширении ее масштабов и задействовании новых инструментов ее реализации. Активность ОАЭ в Восточно-Средиземноморском регионе объясняется не только общей задачей внешнеполитического курса по сдерживанию Турции и борьбе с исламистской угрозой, но и глобальными амбициями эмиратского руководства в энергетической и логистической сферах, а также укреплению престижа малой монархии Залива на международном уровне.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>UAE foreign policy</kwd><kwd>Eastern Mediterranean</kwd><kwd>Turkish-UAE rivalry</kwd><kwd>Egyptian-UAE cooperation</kwd><kwd>Israeli-UAE cooperation</kwd><kwd>Libyan crisis</kwd><kwd>French-Emirati cooperation</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>внешняя политика ОАЭ</kwd><kwd>Восточное Средиземноморье</kwd><kwd>турецко-эмиратское соперничество</kwd><kwd>египетско-эмиратское сотрудничество</kwd><kwd>израильско-эмиратское сотрудничество</kwd><kwd>ливийский кризис</kwd><kwd>французско-эмиратское сотрудничество</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Almezaini, K. 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