I wrote this title months before the Gulf Al-Ula summit and its famous statement, and I stopped completing the article to extrapolate the appropriate circumstance to present its ideas, and regional and international events passed quickly, the most profound of which was the end of President Trump’s term and what accompanied that event and what followed.
Who among us does not know “Westphalia”, the famous name of the agreement that changed the rules of the game, so to speak, and moved the world from the fluid borders drawn by bayonets and fenced by the feet of soldiers, to the solid borders that everyone mutually acknowledge, as well as the recognition of new rules of a new game or a new phase of International competition and scramble, and the subsequent steps of framing the structures of states and the nature of their internal and external relations, the establishment of systems for international and international action, the creation of organizations that handle the executive and procedural aspects, and the enactment of many international charters and laws, which is growing more and more popular and civil pressure on politics to be consistent with it.
All of this we are familiar with today automatically, and we lose sight of the extent of progress in human awareness and the human will that produced and developed it until it moved to what was called the League of Nations and then to what we know today as the United Nations, which many believe that the movement of history will affect it with a radical change, until it is rid of it. From its contradictions to become more in line with the concepts and principles on which it was built, and to be a tool that more preserves what it was created for, and brings humanity out of the throes of its healing by upholding rights, solidifying common ones and consolidating mutual respect. Witness her presence in a new rhythm.
For this reason, it is worth looking carefully at the heart of the world and the Middle East, which sits on deep turmoil, which makes it a region of anxiety and fragile stability, arousing global apprehension, and the focus of its attention so that its contradictions do not get out of control and negatively affect the world’s conditions, economies, and balances.
Especially when these meanings and ideas were renewed during the Russian-Ukrainian war, which, by the nature of its motives, claims and repercussions, impose many revisions, and push strongly towards new approaches that contribute to creating a new strategic and value space. Yesterday, the hand extended over the Crimea and today extends to parts that were within the Ukrainian borders that were “guaranteed” by the Treaty of Westphalia and what was built on it, which constitutes a repudiation of what it was established for, which is the end of wars for the sake of lands.Perhaps it would have sufficed the Russian national security concerns and ensuring the lifeline of this strait if part of what was spent on the successive attacks on Ukraine was spent, not on the war, but on digging a corridor or a canal close to the Crimean strait within the Russian territory, to have its own corridor of what It gives messages that could have prevented the rapprochement that Russia fears and thus prevented from slipping into wars that are not inevitable.
This is one of the hottest confrontations in which the concept on which the United Nations was built stands, devoid of credibility, devoid of effectiveness.
And in our region, the heart of the world is deeper than the contradictions that erupted the Russian-Ukrainian war, which resulted in global economic and food difficulties, and devastated many incomes with terrifying inflation and spending that wasted what could have been overcome with some dedication to the concepts that the world knew in its charters, but witnessed a lot of regression from them when The hours of grandfather came, and whenever politics revealed what was hidden behind the sparkle of slogans, which shackled its systems that were established by the countries of the world to be a safe place, not to be a sound phenomenon that hurts because it knows and does not act, is aware and does not redress, bears witness, documents and stands in the position of the capable of action and the inability to enforce it.
Therefore, it is very important for the region and the world to develop the apparent tactical rapprochement in the political movement in the region, to weave strategic understandings that establish a new East that protects the world from the consequences of one of the most important black holes that threaten the development of the world, its stability and the lives of many of its peoples.
In the heart of this East lies the centers of gravity of the Islamic world, countries that until recently were on opposite sides, and among them there were many political rivalries and differences, which threatened the region to deepen the gap of the strategic void, while reality and history lessons indicate that a new East can become aware of its strategic weight and put in Considering his civilizational heritage, vital interests and the extent of his regional and international role, would herald the dawn of a new era if it strengthened many common denominators and proceeded from it.
The Islamic world needs a balanced cultural and value center that converges with the times, as a matter of equivalence and eligibility in the natural existential consideration without sharp conflict or blatant contradiction, which gives the Turkish-Saudi-Egyptian trio with its historical commonalities and religious and value intersections, a kind of weight, depth and ability for balanced strategic openness.
The centerpiece of that weight is the Saudi-Turkish-Egyptian rapprochement. These three countries, and behind them many countries that possess vitality and effectiveness, are the focal points of the Islamic world and the vanguard of its strategic presence and the pillar of building exemplary relations with the world with its broad horizons and transformations that suggest many.
In depth, we find many similarities between these three countries in the lifestyle, social, cultural, and political drivers and aspirations of the economy. They are proud of their ancient history, awareness of their geopolitical position and strategic weight, and know their strengths and possibilities for their rise, and are aware of the repercussions of their deep understanding and close alliance, and its effects on many files. And his constructive role in many issues, and for this establishes a focus on the space of intersection in the three countries in their awareness of the issue of religion and the age, the dialectic of religion and the state, and the importance of transcendence of alignment based on jurisprudential differences and visions that are almost closed to themselves.
And it is so because they are also countries that possess their great heritage, rich history, cultural stock, and civilized brilliance, and they deal with the vocabulary of their history, culture and status with great care.
It is clear that the Triangle of Tradition is striving to solidify a model that deals with the religious dimension without absence or predominance, and the pace is accelerating to weave internal and external balances without quarreling or overbearing and with a lot of strategic patience and systematic assimilation, which is the basis of the balance that the world needs to expand the horizons of its balances and the rooting of its understandings and the strengthening of its joints.
It is true that states have their own sovereignty and clear boundaries, but to take major decisions and strategic directions also have their limits, as there is no sovereignty in the absolute sense, nor for any state. And in line with the major components of the identity that constitute the historical weight and the cultural heart of the country, and which take their place in the deep power of the state and society, and are part of its soft power that guarantees the decision’s acceptance, enforcement and sanctification, and it stands behind much of what seems not to put it in the forefront, but it does not come out of The background takes it out in contexts.
This concept is what makes the Islamic world’s need for a balanced cultural and value center of gravity that converges with the times as a matter of equivalence and entitlement to the natural existential consideration without sharp conflict or blatant contradiction, which gives the Turkish-Saudi-Egyptian trio with its historical commonalities and religious and value intersections a kind of weight, depth and ability to openness. Balanced strategy, and makes its strategic convergence a precursor to new dynamics.
This trilogy is the nucleus of a multi-polar, harmonious Islamic world that keeps pace with the times, shares with the world the concerns and burdens, distances the region from contradictions, and brings it out of existential conflicts and internal imbalances based on deep self-awareness, awareness of the present and an aspiration for the future, in the midst of a world awash with economic conflicts and gasping competition. Behind local developments in which there is a kind of selfishness and a kind of bullying that is enveloped in the sayings of higher interests and national security considerations, which are in fact destabilizing international security and stability, and that they are nothing but concerns that have been wrapped in phrases and sayings that seem to be from the spirit of the times, but they are from pre-Westphalian premises and contradict their spirit And, most importantly, it can be overcome with some openness and seriousness in order to establish an international action in line with its principles and objectives.
Eastphalia, or the New East with its multipolar bearer, is a symbolic title for a new approach that lays the foundations for strategic convergence, sets new rules regulating local, regional and international interactions, and removes the region from what confuses it and hinders it from monopolar disputes that do not meet the challenges of the times, and builds on the participants to develop status and raise the status of presence The strategist is based on the tendencies of local prominence in that it is an additional richness and added value, and a major tributary of a transforming world, and it should change towards more awareness of avoiding the contradictions of the present and adapting to the future obligations that all humanity wants.
It is a candidate for this, because in this tripartite polarity there are many potentials and enormous potentials that are capable of influencing and changing the nature of the contradictions of projects in the region and those directed to the region, and it is called - due to the severity of the region's contradictions - to redraw the features of the region based on new approaches that have consideration, and derive their weight from the integration of roles The tripartite pole in the fields of energy, industry, agriculture, economic and cultural cooperation, and political coordination, according to a strategic vision that invests in heritage in the presence of an active regional and global player in the spirit of partnership to get out of the contradictions that foreshadow a lot of concern.