No 9 (2023)

The article analyzes the evolution of the foreign and domestic policy of the United Arab Emirates from the moment of the formation of the state to the present. The formation of the UAE coincided with the rise in prices for hydrocarbons in the early 1970s, which allowed the state to attract foreign qualified personnel for the development of advanced sectors of the economy. It has been demonstrated that almost continuous economic growth has contributed to attracting large investments to the country and turning the UAE into the leading financial center of the Arab world. A number of factors contributed to the achievement of such success: effective management, entrepreneurial spirit of the elites, as well as mutual assistance of the two leading emirates – Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Moreover, the economic power achieved, comparable to the power of Saudi Arabia, allowed the Emirates to join the struggle for regional leadership during the events of the Arab Spring. It is important to use the UAE’s power tools, which were vividly demonstrated in the Libyan, Syrian and Yemeni crises. Systematic and quantitative methods were used in the study.

In the relatively recent past, Cambodia was associated with poverty, political instability and conflicts. Before COVID-19, it achieved accelerated economic growth rates that were significantly higher than the world average, a significant increase in GDP and GDP per capita. Cambodia has become one of the fastest growing economies in the world. But the pandemic exposed the bottlenecks of the economic development model.The article analyzes the features of economic transformation in Cambodia, sources of growth, constraints and threats. The author comes to the conclusion that the economic model is extremely unbalanced. The country becomes dependent on the markets for a certain narrow range of goods and their conjuncture on world markets. Thus, economic modernization leads to very rapid but ultimately unsustainable economic progress.

The intensification of multilateral humanitarian activities of international organizations is especially noticeable in African countries, most of which belong to the poorest in the world. Areas of response are zones of armed and military conflicts, territories whose inhabitants have suffered as a result of natural disasters and dangerous diseases. As a rule, women, children and elderly people need emergency assistance first of all.Most humanitarian missions operate under the auspices of the UN, the African Union, the European Union, and UNICEF. Significant assistance comes from volunteers working as part of humanitarian organizations – citizens of African, European, Asian countries, representatives of both Americas. Various socio-cultural and socio-economic programs are being implemented, aimed, in particular, at providing young people of both sexes with access to education, introducing the population to new types of employment, and mastering modern agricultural machinery. Financial support is provided by the entities of the World Bank.In their work, humanitarian workers often rely on the support of community religious leaders, whose authority allows them to conduct conversations with the population on topical issues. The focus is on the fight against diseases, poverty, gender inequality, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS and environmental degradation.For many decades, the Russian Federation has been involved in international humanitarian activities, considering it as one of its foreign policy tasks to strengthen stability and security worldwide.