Valdai Club

Alina Savelyeva

Kancho Stoychev

Vasil Sakaev

Oliver Stuenkel

Alexander Sagomonyan

Kirill Seroshtanov

Walid Salem

Jonathan Steele

Pyotr Stegniy

Patrick Seale

United Kingdom

Writer, journalist, lecturer and consultant on Middle East affairs.

Materials

Arab Spring and Its Impact on the Balance of Power in the Region

The most striking of the new phenomena has been the triumph of Islamic parties – in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and perhaps one day in Yemen and Syria as well. We don’t yet know how the Islamists will behave in government. Will they adopt the Turkish model of Islam allied to secular democracy, or will they slip back into Salafi fundamentalism?

Revival of the Middle East Quartet

The visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Jordan and the Palestinian territory is a very important move. It’s of course a reaction to the fact that the United States has failed with the Arab-Israeli peace process. And I think that the Russian government has become rather impatient.