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Beschreibung

At the end of the twentieth century, the United States birthed a new Middle East order built on realpolitik and a stable balance of power. Three decades later that order has been destroyed. America's disastrous invasion of Iraq along with the failed Arab Spring created a vacuum that has allowed revisionist powers to extend their influence across the region.

In West Asia, Mohammed Soliman argues that it is time for the United States to move decisively away from nation-building and get back to the business of order-building. To do so will require zooming out, in both geographical and historical terms, to build a new regional order across 'West Asia' - from the Middle East to South Asia, connecting Europe to the Indo-Pacific via the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Working with India, Italy, Greece, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Japan, the UK and the United Arab Emirates, among others, he shows how the U.S. could lock in a new balance of power in the Eurasian supercontinent to offset China and Russia's efforts to disrupt the status quo and create a rival system. This new strategy rests on three layered coalitions - geostrategic, hard-power, and geo-technological - that together can anchor a stable order stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. But this will require a fundamental shift in U.S. grand strategy, with 'West Asia' at its core.

The Middle East is no more. Welcome to West Asia.

At the end of the twentieth century, the United States birthed a new Middle East order built on realpolitik and a stable balance of power. Three decades later that order has been destroyed. America's disastrous invasion of Iraq along with the failed Arab Spring created a vacuum that has allowed revisionist powers to extend their influence across the region.

In West Asia, Mohammed Soliman argues that it is time for the United States to move decisively away from nation-building and get back to the business of order-building. To do so will require zooming out, in both geographical and historical terms, to build a new regional order across 'West Asia' - from the Middle East to South Asia, connecting Europe to the Indo-Pacific via the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Working with India, Italy, Greece, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Japan, the UK and the United Arab Emirates, among others, he shows how the U.S. could lock in a new balance of power in the Eurasian supercontinent to offset China and Russia's efforts to disrupt the status quo and create a rival system. This new strategy rests on three layered coalitions - geostrategic, hard-power, and geo-technological - that together can anchor a stable order stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. But this will require a fundamental shift in U.S. grand strategy, with 'West Asia' at its core.

The Middle East is no more. Welcome to West Asia.

Über den Autor

Mohammed Soliman is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, a Director at McLarty Associates, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Follow him on X (Twitter) [...] and on Substack [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Preface

Introduction
Part I Strategic Framing
Chapter 1 America and the End of the Middle East
Part II Rise of West Asia
Chapter 2 The Rise of the Arabian Gulf
Chapter 3 The Arabs, Israel, and a New Formula for West Asia
Part III Redefining the Middle East
Chapter 4 India, the Old Middle East, and the Remaking of West Asia
Chapter 5 The Suez Corridor
Chapter 6 The Indo-Islamic Axis
Chapter 7 The Return of the Indo-Abrahamic World
Chapter 8 The Eurasian Entente
Part IV Order-Building in West Asia
Chapter 9 Geostrategic Coalition
Chapter 10 Security/Hard Power Coalition
Chapter 11 Techo-Economic Coalition
Conclusion

Notes
Acknowledgements

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781509568383
ISBN-10: 1509568387
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Soliman, Mohammed
Hersteller: Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 227 x 149 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Mohammed Soliman
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.01.2026
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Artikel-ID: 134324764