States 'policies are not usually separated from the culture of their people, but often the culture and components of leaders' personalities, and sometimes their hobbies, have a direct impact on the policies of their countries and their foreign positions, and how they deal with other countries.
Experts at the Arab Strategy Forum 2019, for example, emphasize that Russian President Vladimir Putin's love for and practice of judo has led him to practice politics often in accordance with the rules of this game. The Russian positions are challenging, The same is true of the US president, Trump, who is fond of wrestling, so he wants to overcome adversaries and seeks to surrender or hurt them. There are also China and its neighbors who love Sumo wrestling, so they love to control the regions by pushing others out of those areas. Use of weight, and without violence!
A true conclusion, and this is more evident in the personality of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, his passion for equestrian and horses, made him a noble knight by his dealings and ethics, and made him a lover of honest competition, always looking forward to first place, so he is in a permanent race with the future, The end of the race of excellence, and does not stop his ambitions the word «impossible».
Despite the differences of cultures and foreign policies of the countries, the experts participating in the strategic forum believe that the coming era will not see games of violence and entanglement, but the world will see one of the oldest collective games in history, to top the scene of international relations, this game is "tug of war" Each team draws towards it the rope of interests and draws it from the next team. This rope of interests is a project, an economic exchange, a network of information and infrastructure, commercial interests and investment agreements, and so the game needs a team and there will not be a single player who can drag others without help!
The participants differed about the future of the Arab world, some were pessimistic, while others were optimistic, provided Arab states were good at tugging. They had enormous potential to form a strong team but lacked management and agreement on the conditions of the game.
It is likely that the Arab world will not witness remarkable developments in 2019, it is in the worst cases of weakness, and this weakness has made it dependent on regional interventions. It is enough that most of the international resolutions adopted in the last two years and the current are governed by four regional countries not including one Arab state, The Arabs are continuing, and the Arabs are far more divided than they are. Therefore, in the short term, it is not expected to see in the Arab political scene a strong team who is good at tying the rope with the rest of the international teams!
In general, the Arab Strategic Forum, organized by Dubai on an annual basis, has become a milestone in the outlook for the future, and we have seen in previous years a lot of political and geopolitical analysis has turned into reality, and some warnings have been achieved as they are in different parts of the Arab world, , But it is an in-depth political analysis of experienced experts who are fluent in reading the reality. They are looking forward to the future based on the data of the present, which distinguishes this forum from others and makes it unique and doubly important, especially as we live in a turbulent and volatile region.
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