Is It Quite Timely To Call It Timely Analysis? The Foreign Policy Trends of Muslim-Majority States
Muslim-majority states prefer to pursue neutrality in their foreign policy. Many believe this is because they simply oppose liberal ideology. However, a closer examination of their current strategic foreign Policy reveals a more nuanced, practical and multipolar approach. After over a year of war in Ukraine, some 50 Muslim-majority states from Morocco to Indonesia follow a neutrality policy in the Russia-Ukraine War. They neither support Russia nor Ukraine or its backer, the West. Muslim-majority states are unified in their neutral stance on the war and follow assertive foreign policy paradigms with broader international implications. Muslim-majority states "de-westernize" their international affairs and establish strategic partnerships with other great powers while reducing their dependence on arms suppliers from the US. They also avoid interstate rivalry and interference in the domestic affairs of fellow Muslim-majority states or other authoritarian great powers. This art