The Post-American Middle East: How the World Changed Where the War on Terror Failed

ISBN-13: 9783031299117 / Angielski

Laurent A. Lambert;Moosa Elayah

Opis

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

Spis treści

Foreword

Laurent A. Lambert

Chapter 1. Introduction

Laurent A. Lambert & Moosa Elayah

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       

René-Eric Dagorn & Guillaume Beaud                 

Chapter 3. Iraq 2003-2007, Geopolitics of an Imperial Democratization                 

René-Eric Dagorn                                                                                     

Chapter 4. Rebel Governance of Oil: The Case of the Houthis in Yemen                                                                 

Ariel I. Ahram

Chapter 5. Wars on Terror in Arab Oil Lands, Russian Interventions, and Chinese Energy Policies: The Case of Northern Iraq and Syria        

Amal Abdullah; Islam W. Aburok; Samiea Elmardy; Mahmood Alhosain; Massaab Al-Aloosy & Laurent A. Lambert

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                           

Rema Kalush & Laurent A. Lambert

Chapter 7. Overcoming Jihadism in Arabia: Tight Counter-Terrorism Policies in the Gulf Monarchies                                    

Hiba Khodr

Chapter 8. Trump and Netanyahu’s Failed Palestine Sell-out: ‘A hate plan, not a peace plan’                          

Alain Gresh

Chapter 9. Natural Gas and Regional Energy Dis-integration in the Middle East

Laurent A. Lambert & Majd Shaath

Conclusions

Laurent A. Lambert & Moosa Elayah

O autorze

Prof. Laurent A. Lambert teaches energy policy and geopolitics, as well as climate change diplomacy and hydropolitics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and previously taught at Sciences Po Paris and Qatar University.

Prof. Moosa Elayah specializes in Conflict Studies, Peacebuilding, and International Development. He has pioneered teaching and research in governance, community-based initiatives, alternative and cooperative services delivery during conflicts in Yemen and beyond.

Blurb

“A unique book analyzing with depth and breadth why and how the so-called ‘War on Terror’ has had for more than two decades a dramatic impact on the broad Middle East region, contributing to the effective rise of China and Russia in this part of the world. (…)” 
 — Prof. Cristina D’Alessandro, Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa, Canada. 

“An important contribution to research on U.S. policy in the Middle East. (…)”
—Dr. Farkhad AliMukhamedov, Sciences Po, France. 

“A new indispensable addition for every library featuring Middle Eastern studies. (…)”
—Dr. Ignacio Rullansky, National University of San Martin, Argentina.

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

Prof. Laurent A. Lambert teaches energy policy and geopolitics, as well as climate change diplomacy and hydropolitics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and previously taught at Sciences Po Paris and Qatar University.

Prof. Moosa Elayah specializes in Conflict Studies, Peacebuilding, and International Development. He has pioneered teaching and research in governance, community-based initiatives, alternative and cooperative services delivery during conflicts in Yemen and beyond.