Book/Printed Material Renewing U. S. security policy in the Middle East

Title

• Renewing U. S. security policy in the Middle East

Summary

• This report offers a new framing of U.S. national security interests in the Middle East in light of changed political, security, and economic contexts. The authors argue for a new approach to managing U.S. security interests in the region that avoids the pattern of recurring reactive military engagements that have drawn in the United States for decades. This approach recognizes that the Middle East sits at the crossroads of multiple vital U.S. interests and that problems that start in the Middle East spread worldwide. The authors contend that the United States should not deprioritize or disengage from the Middle East but should instead manage the full range of its interests there. These include the traditional goals of preventing terrorism, protecting global energy markets, and dealing with Iranian nuclear proliferation and other malign activities, as well as additional interests related to addressing great power competition, regional conflicts, the human and financial costs of conflict, civilian displacement, climate change, the well-being of allies, and chronic instability. To safeguard its interests, the United States should rely less on military operations and more on diplomacy, economic development, and technical assistance. A reshaped U.S. strategy that both maintains the Middle East as a priority and rebalances military and civilian tools can help steer the region from one where costs to the United States prevail to one where benefits to the American people-as well as people in the Middle East-accrue. Completed before Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the report has not been revised subsequently.

Names

• Culbertson, Shelly, author
• Schatz, Howard J., author
• Stewart, Stephanie, author

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2022]

Contents

• A Top-Ten List of U.S. Security Interests in the Middle East -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Headings

• -  Diplomacy
• -  Economic development--Middle East
• -  Technical assistance, American--Middle East
• -  National security--United States
• -  United States--Military policy--21st century
• -  United States--Foreign relations--Middle East
• -  Middle East--Foreign relations--United States
• -  Diplomatic relations
• -  Economic development
• -  Military policy
• -  National security
• -  Technical assistance, American
• -  Middle East
• -  United States
• -  2000-2099

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense" -- Title page.
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-94).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xix, 94 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• E183.8.M628

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739814

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739814

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739814

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