Re-Engaging the Middle East: A New Vision for U.S. Policy

Re-Engaging the Middle East: A New Vision for U.S. Policy

Re-Engaging the Middle East: A New Vision for U.S. Policy

Re-Engaging the Middle East: A New Vision for U.S. Policy

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Overview

It's time for new policies based on changing U.S. interests

U.S. policy in the Middle East has had very few successes in recent years, so maybe it's time for a different approach. But is the new approach of the Trump administration—military disengagement coupled with unquestioning support for key allies—Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia—the way forward?

In this edited volume, noted experts on the region lay out a better long-term strategy for protecting U.S. interests in the Middle East. The authors articulate a vision that is both self-interested and carefully tailored to the unique dynamics of the increasingly divergent sub-regions in the Middle East, including North Africa, the Sunni Arab bloc of Egypt and Persian Gulf states, and the increasingly chaotic Levant.

The book argues that the most effective way to pursue and protect U.S. interests is unlikely to involve the same alliance-centric approach that has been the basis of Washington's policy since the 1990s. Instead, the United States should adopt a nimbler and less military-dominant strategy that relies on a diversified set of partners and a determination to establish priorities for American interests and the use of resources, both financial and military.

In essence, the book calls for a new post-Obama and post-Trump approach to the region that reflects the fact that U.S. interests are changing and likely will continue to change. The book offers a fresh perspective in advance of the 2020 presidential election.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815737407
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/22/2020
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 6.09(w) x 8.74(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Dafna H. Rand most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, on Secretary Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff, and on the staff of the National Security Council. She is the author of Roots of the Arab Spring: Contested Authority and Political Change in the Middle East.Andrew P. Miller is the deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy and a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Middle East Program. Miller served on President Obama's National Security Council from 2014 to 2017, and previously worked in the Department of State.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xvii

1 Between Retreat and Overinvestment in the Middle East and North Africa Andrew P. Miller Dafna H. Rand 1

Part I Defusing Regional Conflicts and Rebuilding Diplomatic Influence

2 The Syrian Crucible and Future U.S. Options Wa'el Alzayat 25

3 Moving from Partisan to Peacemaker in Yemen Christopher J. Le Mon 47

4 Toward a Stable Libya Megan Doherty 76

Part II Re-Imagining Key U.S. Security Partnerships

5 The U.S.-Israel Relationship and the Israeli-Palestinian Arena Daniel B. Shapiro 95

6 Why Iraq Matters Jon Finer 117

7 The United States and Egypt Updating an Obsolete Relationship Amy Hawthorne Andrew P. Miller 129

8 Recalibrating the Terms of U.S.-Saudi Relations Daniel Benaim 153

Part III Regional Challenges for the United States

9 A New Cold War in the Middle East? Alexander Bick 175

10 Iran: Leading with Diplomacy Sahar Nowrouzzadeh Jane Rhee 191

11 Adapting U.S. Defense Posture in the Middle East for New Priorities Melissa Dalton Mara Karlin 225

12 The Use and Misuse of Security Assistance in the Middle East and North Africa Stephen Tankel 239

13 Toward Strategic Investments in Foreign Assistance The Tunisia Experiment Dafna H. Rand 257

Conclusion Looking to the Future Dafna H. Rand Andrew P. Miller 276

Contributors 291

Index 297

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