Mediterranean studies in Asia and Middle East

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Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University

MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES IN ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST

geopolitical mediterranean arab asian

Tverdohleb Kate 1st Year of Master

degree, International Relations Department

The post-communist development of the Mediterranean countries has been noted in the studies of many Asian and Middle Eastern scholars. Given the development of Albania, Croatia and Slovenia, it is worth noting the surplus of institutions and think tanks that have followed the gradual transformation of political transformation in these countries. The attitudes of Chinese, Japanese and Arab scholars towards the post-communist Mediterranean countries differ significantly from those of the Ukrainian or European research schools. However, it is not the comparative nature of this work that should be noted, but the more independent position of the countries of the Arab and Asian regions on the environment of the countries of South-Eastern Europe.

The Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) in Arab (and Middle Eastern) Studies has published an article on «Post-Communist Eastern Europe and the Middle East: The burden of History and New Political Realities». This article describes the collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe and the emergence of a whole new geopolitical and social reality that is strikingly different from its predecessor.

Turkish sources have their own vision of the Mediterranean region. For ex., Abdurrahim F. Aydin and Erjada Progonati (Inonu University in Malatya, Gazi University, Ankara) wrote «Albania's foreign policy in the post-communist era». Also, the journal of Southeast European Studies helps provide more information about the region. Namely, it is an article about interreligious tolerance and intercultural life in Albania. The Turkish Institute is studying the security of the Balkan region, where there is a lot of dynamism.

The Chinese School of International Relations, Peking University has proved to be more general in its approach to the study of North-eastern Europe, through the prism of civilization inherent in Asian culture. Researcher Kong Fanjung, for example, presented his thoughts on the countries of Southeast Europe. This person visited all the countries (Baltic States, Moldova, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Romania), which he writes about in his work «Research and Reflection on the Eastern Countries, Central and South-Eastern Europe «. It is a balanced analytical article that clearly traces the line of post-communist transformation, especially from the point of view of Asian colleagues.

The process in Croatia was described separately by the Japanese researcher Yamakawa Takashi of the Higher School of International Relations, Ritsu- meikan University, again through the prism of the Asian vision of the problem. His work deals with the Logic of «Nationalization» in Croatia: Political Movements in the «Croatian Spring» and the Process of Disintegration of Yugoslavia.

During the selection of material for this essay, the most difficult thing was to find Arab authors who could reveal the topic of the post-communist world situation. Studying the Arabic circulation of literature was the most accessible Qatari news site Aljazira, which collected a report by journalist Hani Salah, who was able to gather and analyze the situation in the Balkans. Hani Salah singles out a more economic factor in the development and as a country as a whole gradually chose their regime after the breakup of Yugoslavia.

That is, looking at the great distance between the Mediterranean and the Asian and Middle Eastern regions, it becomes clear that researchers such as China, Japan, Arabic, and Turkey are interested in the post-communist life of Albania, Croatia, and Slovenia. What makes their work in some ways unique and gives a complete picture of how «distant» colleagues analyze the situation after the collapse of the Soviet system. As we see, the studies are very different from each other, but the transformation of social order is common in all three countries.

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