Originality of the Middle East is that in comparison with other
regions, environmental policy bases all over more clearly reveal themselves, despite a variety of ideological rhetoric. Emerging research trend
of political ecology examines the intersection points of interests, conflicts, domination hierarchies, threat, values, from the position in which
the environmental problem is treated as a causative factor. The water
deficit in the Middle East becomes a cause of wars, agreements, maintaining the conflicts. On the other hand, the relative surplus of not renewable resources of hydrocarbons in the region makes the region the
subject of fight of global political forces for monopolistic control over
the Middle East. The threat of nuclear conflict with Israel turns regional
contradictions in environmental problems of a global nature.