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Gilles Kepel is a political scientist, specialist in Islam and the Arab world, is an editorial writer for Al-Monitor and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean chair at the École Normale Supérieure.
A year after the start of the war in Ukraine, a series of shocks have shaken the foundations of the system of Middle Eastern alliances.
A number of states belonging to the “global South”, including Arab countries previously considered pro-Western, refused to vote at the UN to condemn the Russian invasion.
And when the United States asked Saudi Arabia to increase its oil production to lower crude prices, weaken Moscow and relieve Europe, Riyadh refused to be used as a market adjustment variable – or as an 'elastic producer' - and kept prices high.
Even the Jewish state played its part on its own, refusing to provide Ukraine with its “Iron Dome” technology to stop the missiles…
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