Change and continuity in America's Middle East policy in 2001-2017
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Zahra
Bagheri
1
(, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political, Sciences, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.)
Hosein
Daheshyar
2
(Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law & Political, Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai, Iran)
Seyed Mohammad
Tabatabaei
3
(Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law & Political, Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai, Iran.)
Mohammad
Yousefi Jooybari
4
(Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political, Sciences, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.)
Keywords: Foreign policy, Middle East, USA, Obama, Trump, Change and Continuity, Bush,
Abstract :
Abstract The focus of this article is on the change and continuity in US policy in the Middle East during the Bush, Obama and Period of Trump presidency until 2017. His approach is too far from realism and is nationalist from foreign policy dimension. Trump’s views show that he has a different approach in international arena compared with two former presidents, Georg W. Bosh and Barak Obama. While Georg W. Bush focused on US superpower aspect with emphasis on some elements such as Unilateralism, Pre-emptive attack and even changing the government in Middle East, Obama considered Multilateralism, enjoying smart power and usage of diplomacy as an important tool to maintain American leadership in the Middle East; but Trump practically has focused on disregarding of US responsibility by negation of main past approaches and among them says:” I am just the American president and no the leader of the world. There is a dominant and primary idea from the “first US” slogan that is return to its own borders and a kind of isolationism possibly. Therefore, the idea of the superiority of America can reflect in political and strategic pattern space of Donald Tramp. In this regard, it is considered the change and continuity of US policy in the Middle East based on Realistic approach.
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