چکیده:
The Middle East region has been a longstanding major source of concern for American
leaders due to its eternal religious and cultural relevance, a strategically pivotal location,
huge oil reserves, interlocked and intractable conflicts, and the persistence of major security
threats such as terrorism and the risk of nuclear proliferation.
The Middle East region is undergoing security shifts. Regional security in the Middle East
will be changed in Trump era. Security and power in each region has connected,
empowered and influenced a new generation of young people, who are questioning political
authority with new intensity.
The outcomes of the Arab Spring mostly disappointed the world and its policymakers. The
region is violent; disfigured by inter and intrastate conflict and by sectarian divisions. Power and
security in Middle East countries has been fragmented. The nature of security in Middle East
policy is based on Proxy war and Non-state actor’s initiation. Non-state actor who are active in
the region, are both a symptom of state weakness and amplify the threats to states.
The Middle East region recognize with economic bedrock of the regional security as
exports of hydrocarbons is under threat. Surveying the region shows that, in the throes of
historic turmoil and facing massive challenges. The US, UK and other European countries has
critical interests in the region, both economic and security. Moreover, what is happening in
the Middle East, it will be expanded to other regions and does not stay in the Middle East. In
this situation, Trump’s policy and strategy lead to instability, turmoil and power transition.
For control and leading this process, world politics to need co-operational security model with
other great powers and regional actors like Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
This article, by descriptive-analytical method, seeks to study the "Trump’s Grand
strategy in the Middle East". the main hypothesis emphasis that “U.S strategy on Middle
East in Donald Trump policy based on offshore balancing, proxy war and increasing
chaos’’.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Middle East Security and Donald Trump’s Grand Strategy Abbas Mossalanejad- Postdoctoral on Strategic Policy Making and Full Professor of Political Sciences, University of TEHRAN, Tehran, Iran Received: 20/05/2017 Accepted: 19/08/2017 Abstract The Middle East region has been a longstanding major source of concern for American leaders due to its eternal religious and cultural relevance, a strategically pivotal location, huge oil reserves, interlocked and intractable conflicts, and the persistence of major security threats such as terrorism and the risk of nuclear proliferation.
For control and leading this process, world politics to need co-operational security model with other great powers and regional actors like Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The role of 26 Geopolitics Quarterly, Volume: 13, No 4, Winter 2018 _ shale oil in its energy mix has reduced the importance of the Middle East to the US, a trend which is likely to lead, over time to a concomitant diminution of the protection offered by the Western security umbrella to the region.
Where it is possible for European countries to secure closer cooperation with Russia on specific objectives in the region, including stability in Syria and Libya, counter-terrorism, making progress on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and supporting the Iran nuclear deal, this should be pursued (Dean et al, 2017: 4).
The US foreign policy in Donald Trump era must retreats in its support for the international rules-based order and in its security commitments to the Middle East, China’s economic interests may necessitate deeper political engagement.