The Repercussions of the Russian Strategy upon the Russian Discourse towards the Middle East, "Content Analysis”

Abstract

This study analyzes quantitatively and qualitatively the Russian strategy, and implications on the Russian-Putin discourse towards the Middle East, because of its geostrategic and geopolitical importance for all international powers, trying to verify two hypotheses, namely; the attempt to revive the Russian foreign policy and restore Russia to its international position is due to President Putin's strong personality. Also, the greater the size of the powers available to the leader in the political system, the greater the influence of the ideological pattern, accordingly the interpretation of Russian foreign policy in the light of the theories of international relations, linking this to analyzing Russian discourse and the impact of personal, internal and external determinants on the Russian discourse, with an analytical reference to the correlation between Putin’s ideology analyzing the aspects of stability and change in Russian policy. The study concluded a number of results, including transformation of the Russian strategy from being a security strategy to a comprehensive one, a realistic strategy that raises the value of the national interest , it is based on the substitution of geopolitics for the ideology, but at the same time it is a pragmatic based on stability and prediction with mutual benefits, a dynamic strategy in its means to achieve its interests within a framework of flexibility , this makes it a scientific strategy, especially by keeping pace with cyber progress and information war. This was accompanied by a change in the language of President Putin’s Russian discourse to ward off threats to the global order.