Author name:
ماجد صدام سالم
Supervisor name:
غالب ناصر عبد العزيز السعدون
Abstract:
تهدف هذه الدراسة الى معرفة المقومات الجغرافية المتميزة لمنطقة المشرق العربي، التي بدورها كانت محركا للتنافس بين تركيا وايران، التنافس من اجل المصالح السياسية والاقتصادية للدولتين، ولمجموعة من القوى الدولية والاقليمية الاخرى. تحاول فيها كل من تركيا وايران | This study aims to find out the ingredients geographical outstanding Levant region, which in turn was the engine of competition between Turkey and Iran, the competition, which was the political and economic interests of the two countries, and a range of international and regional powers other, and trying to Turkey and Iran, according to a specific strategy and using the tactics of political, economic and military, to get to purpose in influence and domination on the capabilities of the Levant region. Given the decline in the capacity of countries in the region, especially after the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of infrastructure by the United States and its allies, was the influence of Turkey and Iran, evident in a number of Arab countries, adding to the region's problems as a result of projects and strategies pursued by the two countries, and seeks to achieve targets in the Levant region during the period (2003 - 2013). Because of the comprehensiveness of the study and addressed to several aspects of the researcher as well as the need for scrutiny and analysis and linkage between variables geopolitical political, social, economic, and at all levels including international, regional and local alike. The study has adopted a set of scientific methods in a way serving the progress of the search, and fits the presentation and analysis of information and data that are available from their original sources, including the approach to the analysis of power and function - based approach. It has tried researcher where review the ingredients geographical stimulated those forces to compete geographic location, and the nature of the demographics varied (national and religious) which gave some of them area of influence in the equation of the rivalry between the two countries, as well as economic resources and especially energy resources, which were and still constitute one axes of competition between regional and international powers. It was the potential geopolitical in both the rivals contribute to play a major role in increasing the intensity of competition between them, the mere study of this potential and power factors in their possession, leading to the conclusion that the phenomenon of competition were normal between them, in terms of the status of the site geostrategic and hand human capacity populated ones, and economic well the nature of the political systems and military capabilities, and in turn, was the phenomenon of competition of strength and clear - cut between the two sides in many areas in the countries of the Levant region, through variables geopolitical, which stimulated this competition , which stimulated this competition, which does not exclude that the region is not just an arena for competition, but were often active a significant increase in the severity and impact of the peoples of the two countries and parties and regimes in the countries of the Levant region, the fact that these countries have encouraged some of the parties to enter the arena of competition and objected to the role of other parties. Followed Turkey and Iran, an economic policy aimed at achieving economic development within their respective countries, particularly Turkey, in addition to maintaining political stability and security there, and they encourage the countries of the region in economic cooperation with them, to achieve their interests in addition to that he attracts Arab and foreign investments into its territory. The rise Turkey as a regional power in the region is that Turkey offers a model to maintain a balance in its relations with the international and regional powers other than through the axis of moderate Arab and Islamic world, and this applies to the relationship with Israel, and with some countries in the Levant region. As for Iran, it has assumed the management of Axis anti - American policies in the region, and the support systems and movements, such as the Syrian regime and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine and the Houthis in Yemen and loyalists in Bahrain. Has been formed so kind of new Cold War through this competition has strengthened competition happening between Turkey and Iran, the impact of an actor for some of the movements and parties, and to challenge the central authority in the Levant, and the establishment of group's armed organization enjoys a high degree of autonomy. The study found that the regional rivalry between Turkey and Iran will be in the future on the Levant region, in the three future scenarios determine the type of that relationship, the cooperation between the two countries, or a continuation of the rivalry between them, or the evolution of the occurrence of conflict, and eventually the survival and continued to compete for the next twenty years We discussed the outcome of this scenario is the most investigated. The study recommends that researchers need to conduct further studies and research on the area of the Levant in the next stage, in the light of the transformations taking place in the Arab region (Arab revolutions) to the presence of some of the participants between the countries of the Levant region and the rest of the world
