The article is a result of the deep reshaping taking into consideration the recent events and political developments of the author’s presentation “Middle East in the Era of Force Geo-Economics and Competition of Values,” made at the All-Russian conference “Arab East in the Contemporary World Politics” (INION Russian Academy of Sciences, May 28, 2024). The ongoing global geopolitical and geo-economic transformations seriously affect the Middle and Near East in all of its parts by changing the logic of development that was relevant in the region over the past 30 to 35 years. They create a number of contradictory and sometimes mutually exclusive tendencies and development projects. The major trend is, in fact, the crisis and, in some cases, the impossibility of implementing national development and socio-economic modernization programs in key countries of the region. This inevitably leads to profound changes in the region’s architecture, including not only shifts in its geo-economic development vectors but also in its political and spatial parameters. The trends in the development of military-political conflicts in the region create real conditions for its fragmentation into subregions, with the connections between them gradually weakening.
Near East, Middle East, political Islam, geo-economic regionalization, logistics’ corridors, military-political conflicts, hybrid impact