Emerging Powers and the Middle East
Beirut, October 24-25, 2008 

The conference aims at looking at the Middle East as a focal point of overlapping and competing interests of established and emerging powers, and hence, as an arena where new rules and parameters for a still nascent multi-polar world order are being developed and acted out. It also seeks to look at sub-state or trans-national actors and flows that often remain invisible to purely strategic analysis, but create powerful crosscurrents that may affect or even derail attempts to project national or imperial power, and create patterns of influence of their own. Finally, it intends to explore the perspectives of the region to become a partner in an emerging multi-polar system, rather than a stomping ground or even a battlefield for the interests and the prestige of others. To this end, it will bring together Chinese, Indian, Russian, Western and Middle Eastern specialists on international relations, who will be encouraged to merge their perspectives into a comprehensive vision.

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Articles

Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner, Steven Weber (Foreign Affairs)
Chinese Ways (May/June 2008)

Richard N. Haass (Foreign Affairs)
The Age of Nonpolarity- What Will Follow U.S. Dominance (May/June 2008)

M K Bhadrakumar (Asia Times Online)
Bush's Middle East policy in tatters (May 21, 2008)

Michael T. Klare (Foreign Policy in Focus)
Global Power Shift (May 6, 2008)

Ian Buruma (The New Yorker)
After America-Is the West being overtaken by the rest? (April 21, 2008)

M K Bhadrakumar (Asian Times)
A velvet divorce in China (Oct 31, 2007)

M K Bhadrakumar (Asian Times)
The new 'NATO of the East' takes shape (Aug 25, 2007)

Dilip Hiro (Asia Times)
Rising powers have the US in their sights (August 22, 2007)

Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner and Steven Weber
A world without the west - The National Interest (July/August 2007)

Dmitri Trenin (The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Russia’s Strategic Choices (June 2007)

Alyson J. K. Bailes, Pál Dunay, Pan Guang and Mikhail Troitskiy (SIPRI)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (May 2007)

Aijaz Ahmad (MR Zine)
Imperial Sunset? (April 2007)

Kishore Mahbubani (Center for the Advanced Study of India)
Will India Emerge as an Eastern or Western Power? (February 2007)

The Center for Strategic and International Studies
 The Vital Triangle: China, The United States, and The Middle East (September 2006)

Josh Kurlantzick (The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
China's Charm: Implications of Chinese Soft Power (June 2006)

Ilya Bourtman (The Middle East Review of International Affairs)
Putin and Russia's Middle Eastern Policy (June 2006)

Gudrun Wacker (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)
China's Rise: The Return of Geopolitics? (February 2006)

Jamestown China Brief Special Edition
China and the Middle East (May 24, 2005)

Samir Amin (Monthly Review)
India, a Great Power?  (February 2005)

Prasenjit K. Basu, Brahma Chellaney, Parag Khanna, Sunil Khilnani (The Foreign Policy Centre)
India as a New Global Leader (2005)

Joshua Cooper Ramo (The Foreign Policy Centre)
The Beijing Consensus (May 2004)

Geoffrey Kemp and Paul Saunders (The Nixon Center, Washington)
American, Russian, and the Greater Middle East (2003)

Dossier on Emerging Powers (Enjeux Internationaux)
Emerging Powers