Trump and the Middle East : ‘Barking Dogs Seldom Bite’
In drafting its Middle East policy, the Trump administration appears to depart from the soft power rhetoric of the Obama years, seemingly favoring a more hawkish, hard power approach to dealing with America’s most important interests in the region: the defeat of ISIS and the containment of Iran. Whi...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Insight Turkey. - SET VAKFI İktisadi İşletmesi, SETA VAKFI. - 19(2017), 3, Seite 139-158 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2017
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Insight Turkey |
| Schlagworte: | Political science Philosophy Applied sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | In drafting its Middle East policy, the Trump administration appears to depart from the soft power rhetoric of the Obama years, seemingly favoring a more hawkish, hard power approach to dealing with America’s most important interests in the region: the defeat of ISIS and the containment of Iran. While many regional partners hope for a radical U.S. foreign policy shift after years of perceived American disengagement, Trump seems to be constrained by path dependency. He inherits a region in turmoil, a public adverse to regional military engagements for peripheral interests, and a major strategic discrepancy between ambition and capability. Consequently, the new White House will be forced to continue Obama’s policy of delegation and multilateralism. |
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| ISSN: | 25647717 |