The Post-American Middle East

How the World Changed Where the War on Terror Failed

Laurent A. Lambert, Moosa Elayah (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XVI, 11 Seiten

2023 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-29911-7 (ISBN)

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After two decades of War on Terror, it is particularly important, for both academic and policy purposes, to clearly understand why the US formidable mobilization of means and might has transformed into a such a blatant geostrategic defeat of the US and its allies in the broad Middle East. This is all the more paradoxical that the WOT achieved a series of tactical victories - such as the toppling of hostile regimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya; the crippling of the national economies of enemy states by sanctions; the successful targeted killing of lead terrorist Usama Bin Laden, ISIS cult leaders Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and his successor, etc. So, why have these tactical victories not led to what was supposed to become, according to the US government, a 'Greater Middle East'? With most authors being from or living in the Middle East, this book is unique as it brings perspectives and answers from the region. This is crucially important as we are entering, we argue, the era of a Post-American Middle East.

Chapters 1 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Dr. Laurent A. Lambert teaches energy policy, climate change politics and diplomacy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and previously taught energy transition and diplomacy at Sciences Po Paris. A former writer/analyst at the French Ministry of Defense, Dr Lambert is also an expert on technology transfer and a former representative of the Research & Non-Governmental Organizations (RINGOs) at the United Nations (2013-2016).

Dr. Moosa Elayah is an Assistant Professor in Public Administration, specialized in Conflict Studies, Peacebuilding, and International Development, at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar) and at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I - War, Expanding Chaos & Failed State-Building Across the Middle East.- Chapter 2. Afghanistan since 2001: US Geostrategic Ambitions, a Failed State, and the Return of the Taliban.- Chapter 3. Iraq 2003-2007, Geopolitics of an Imperial Democratization.- Chapter 4. Rebel Governance of Oil: The Case of the Houthis in Yemen.- Chapter 5. Wars on Terror in Arab Oil Lands, Russian Interventions, and Chinese Energy Policies: The Case of Northern Iraq and Syria.- Part II - Indirect Consequences of the War on Terror and Legacy.- Chapter 6. Political Instabilities and large-scale migrations in the MENA region: Libyan, Syrian, and Yemeni cases in regional perspective.- Chapter 7. Overcoming Jihadism in Arabia: Tight Counter-Terrorism Policies in the Gulf Monarchies.- Chapter 8. Trump and Netanyahu's Failed Palestine Sell-out: 'A hate plan, not a peace plan'.- Chapter 9. Natural Gas and Regional Energy Dis-integration in the Middle East.- Chapter 10. Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.06.2023
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 11 p. 28 illus., 19 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Afghanistan • American foreign policy • Energy geopolitics • Iraq • Jihadism • War on Terror
ISBN-10	3-031-29911-6 / 3031299116
ISBN-13	978-3-031-29911-7 / 9783031299117
Zustand	Neuware