ORTA DOĞU VE KUZEY AFRİKA

Which one of the states below is not said to be a strong state in the Middle East and/or North Africa?

Which of the followings is not the direct or indirect consequences of the western colonialism and continuing foreign penetration in the Middle East?

Which of the followings is not the domestic and transnational cause of regional or local conflicts in the Middle East?

Which of the followings is the example of collective security structure in the Middle East?

Which of the countries below is not the founding member of the Baghdad Pact?

Which of the states given below was the first western power to hold protectorates in the Middle East between the early 19th century and 1971?

When did the Middle East change from being a strategically important region to an unstable and perilous space for the Western states?

Which of the following states is not the member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)?

When and how did the Arab-Israeli Conflict start?

Which of the followings is not a Maghreb state?

The Gulf is an important subregional component of the Middle East. Diplomacy, war, aid, alliance patterns, trade, hydrocarbons are some of the means through which the region is connected to the broader world. Gulf security is closely associated with other regional states, namely Iran, Iraq, and the six Gulf states. The security and power competition between Iran and Iraq on the one hand, and the six member-the GCC on the other define the basic contours of the Gulf security. This constitues an example of the importance of ----------------------------------.

Which of the following terms can be used to complete the above paragraph?

Which of the following was not one of the members of the Baghdad Pact?

Beginning with which of the following presidents did the US position as a dominant power in the Middle East weaken?

What is the main aim of the "pivot to Asia" strategy conceptualized by the Obama administration?

One of the cornerstones of state formation is war-making. Wars and aggressive forms have always been part and parcel of Middle East politics. Not only do wars bring destruction to many lives, they also give way to political change in the regional dynamics.

After which of the following wars did the British and French powers vanish in the Middle East region?

Which of the following can not be said for Hezbollah, one of the well-known non-state actors in the Middle East?

Both Israel and Saudi Arabia consider the Middle East security from a ‘status quo’ perspective because they mostly accept the dominant role and ideological outlook of the US. In other words, they mainly see no conflict of interest between theirs and the US interests/policies. On the other hand, ---------------------------- is a revisionist security actor, aiming to upend the regional order.

Which of the following countries is a revisionist security actor in the Middle East?

Which of the following defines the central security policy of Saudi Arabia?

A weak-state is a concept ‘to define a state that is weak in its core functions of providing security to its citizens (security gap), providing essential services to its citizens (capacity gap), and having legitimacy among its people (legitimacy gap) (Tyagi, 2012).

Which of the following is not one of the weak states in the Middle East?

Which of the following are main structural sources of the ‘security gap’ in Lebanon?