Global and regional strategies in the Middle East : in pursuit of hegemony / Leila Nicolas.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

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"Global and Regional Strategies in the Middle East explores hegemony in the Middle East through understanding different dimensions of power politics and the consequences of the hegemonic ambitions of both global and regional powers. The book adds new aspects to the extensive literature on grand strategies in the Middle East by exploring and evaluating competing strategies from an "insider" perspective. Firstly, it highlights the main determinants of Global powers' grand strategies, assesses the ones applied in the Middle East, and forecasts future strategies after the Ukraine war in alignment with other rival states' capabilities and goals. It then underlines regional dynamics and the hegemonic quest of regional powers and their power politics' determinants since the "War on terror", the Arab Spring and, more recently, the Russian intervention in Ukraine and the Israel-Gaza conflict. The book broadens readers' perspectives by clarifying the region's dynamics that shaped the global and regional power rivalries, where security concerns, economic interests, oil supplies, and hegemonic ambitions make it complicated for the US to keep influence and the total control it had during the late twentieth century. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the MENA region, International Relations and Strategic Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

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September 26, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.