Russia's Foreign Policy Towards Syria A Post Arab Spring Study

Abstract

Russia has always played an active role in the world politics. Under the Administration of Vladimir Putin, Russia is determined to achieve its pride as one of the major powers again. The Arab Spring resulted in various Civil and Proxy Wars in the middle east, the Republic of Syria is one of them that suffered. On the request of Bashar -al Assad Russia intervened in Syria. The decision of intervention in Syria played an important role for the Russian politics on International Stage. Despite the presence of U.S and other factors, Russia assisted the Bashar al-Assad for various reasons. Russia admires the geopolitical importance of its only all Syria in the middle east. In do so Moscow halted all the opposition to succeed in Syria. Russia‟s policy for Syria proved to be a reemergence policy in the global politics for Russia.