COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUTIN-MEDVEDEV FOREIGN POLICY MAKING: SYRIA AND LIBYA CASE
Journal: Ortadoğu ve Göç
Year: 2021

This article explains the shift in Russia’s foreign policy strategy towards the Middle East. Particularly, it aims to address the question of why Russia supported the UNSC Resolution 1970 towards Libya in 2011 but refused to cooperate with the West in Syria. In this article, it is argued that the West’s use of the authorization of the no-fly zone as a green light for military intervention in Libya paved the way for Russia’s obstinacy in Syria. To test this hypothesis, this article focus on the f