This article uses the concept of geonarratives and a dataset of nearly 3000 newspaper articles from Egypt, the Gulf countries, Iraq and Lebanon to analyse the perceptions and space framing assumptions of Russian geopolitical imaginaries in the Arab world and how history is mobilized to support them.
The dataset Russian Geonarratives and Arab Media (RUGAME) contains 2.890 coded articles from a diverse collection of Arab media. It examines how Russian geonarratives such as multipolarity and Eurasianism are perceived in the Arab world, in particular their space-framing assumptions and the space-making processes that accompany them such as infrastructure-building.
Europa bleibt für Golfstaaten bei Investitionen und geopolitischen Überlegungen zweitrangig. In Gaza und im Sudan ist internationale Vermittlung nötig. Der Libanon und Syrien drohen zu zerfallen. Wir stellen zehn zentrale Themen vor, die im Jahr 2026 die Entwicklungen im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika prägen werden.
