In his latest book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region, academic Marc Lynch takes an in-depth look at the role of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East across six presidencies since 1991. Presenting a chronological overview of U.S administrations over the last thirty-five years, he highlights the remarkable endurance of the U.S’e hegemonic strategy in the Middle…
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This strategy differs from the strategies of past administrations where U.S. global hegemony was the prominent goal. Instead, the Trump administration is utilizing a hardline approach that prioritizes U.S. domestic interests, at the expense of longstanding relations with economic and security partners. By presenting a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. administration is actively pursuing dominance in the…
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