For over the last two decades the Middle East has gradually gathered attention and has come to the forefront of U.S. foreign policy. The focus on this region began primarily after the attacks on the two World Trade Center’s in New York City on September 11th, 2001. Iraq was the initial target in the response to the devastating tragedy. This “response” involved an indefinite occupation with the intention of eliminating “weapons of mass destruction”, with intelligence under the Bush Administration…

Any discussion of U.S. Middle East policy is integral to the national political discourse. A presidential or congressional candidate has to prove her/his foreign policy knowledge on the campaign trail, but unfortunately the electorate is generally not informed enough to critically assess a candidate’s understanding, which risks giving our leaders virtually unchecked power to make policy in our name. An important part of educating young citizens in a democracy is to teach them the tools they will…

Introduction The scope of this project will primarily focus on the consequences of the United States’ foreign policy in the Middle East, with a focus on the impact those ramifications in regard to the United States’ policies towards the United Arab Emirates. To that end it is paramount to ascertain the challenges in alliance system, and to review important concepts of alliance theories and the scholarly works that have contributed to these approaches. Several articles have been written in respect…

is to not engage in war tactics but by alleviating the people of the region. The United State’s foreign policy actions towards the middle east have a history of being more based on conjecture, so the time to rearrange American Foreign Policy towards the middle east is now. It is particularly dangerous in the Middle East. A massive violent backlash that could reign across the whole middle east could erupt, which has proven to be the case in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya. However there has been an approach…

has let loose a beast in the middle east that it can no longer control. Stephen Walt, writer for Foreign Policy magazine, takes a critical look at U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and presents a state level analysis on why he believes American efforts in the region have amounted to a complete failure. Looking through a realists’ eyes, he makes a sober and forceful argument that attempts to explain his reasoning for the U.S. foreign policy breakdown in the Middle East. Walt paints a pessimistic…

article discusses the evolution of the Middle East and how much of the Middle East is currently coming out of, and in some cases still going through difficult revolutions. The article points to three, possibly four, defining stages in the Middle East. The first is the stage of the Cold War, the second is that of the Old Order, the third is the end to the Old Order, and the fourth is the current stage that they are in now. The point was made that much of the Middle East’s resentment to the West originated…

British Middle East Policy in the Late 1930's Middle East was seen as the central junction for the communication of the British global empire. The British were clearly the dominant powerhouse of the late 30's throughout much of Europe and the Middle East. The shortest sea connection between Britain and India was through the Suez Canal, while the air and land routes connected Africa and Egypt to Palestine and the Middle East. This area was also a major source of oil. Oil was to become one of…

American foreign policy and what it entails. Foreign policy of the United States determines how we interact with other nations and also the standards or guidelines for these interactions. Foreign policy is designed to protect America and ensure our safety both domestically and globally. There has been an ongoing struggle involving American foreign policy in the Middle East and specifically the war on terrorism. Conflict in the Middle East has been at the top of the American Foreign policy agenda for the…

Despite the fact that the war on terror was officially launched by the White House a little more than a decade ago, the main trends in the American foreign policy regarding Middle East have changed significantly in these dozen-something years a couple of times. The issue the United States of America are dealing with in the case of ISIS is something very different, both in nature and in scale. Compared to the devotion of the Bush administration to fight every single suspected organization and individual…

CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION 1) ISIS changed foreign policy between western countries and the Middle East Data Analysis and Sources: *Empirical history USA Foreign policy: From 1945 to 1990 the United States of America kept an important military deployment in Europe and Asia and in contrast they had a low military footprint in the Middle East counting relying instead on their local allies; more particularly the conservative Arab monarchies in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Persian gulf and had…