Global, regional and internal factors of Egypt’s stance towards Russo-Ukrainian war

• Authors: Michał Lipa

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to explain the origins of Egypt’s foreign policy toward the Russian-Ukrainian war. The major hypothesis says that Egypt’s policy towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict results from Egypt’s relations with the United States, the Russian Federation and regional powers, namely Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with the Egyptian leaders trying to pragmatically put their policy in line with those of major regional powers with which Cairo has close relations while taking into account interests of their nation.

Keywords

EN

Egypt; United States; Russia-Ukraine war; foreign policy; food security

• Publisher: Krakowska Akademia im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego
• Journal: Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe
• Year: 2023
• Volume: XX
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-119

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Michał Lipa

• Jagiellonian University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.48269/2451-0610-ksm-2023-1-006

Biblioteka Nauki

20435650