TY - JOUR ID - 60035 TI - The Middle East Security and Donald Trump’s Grand Strategy JO - Geopolitics Quarterly JA - IGQ LA - en SN - 1735-4331 AU - Mosalanejhad, Abbas AD - Postdoctoral on Strategic Policy Making and Full Professor of Political Sciences, University of TEHRAN, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 13 IS - 48 SP - 20 EP - 52 KW - chaos KW - Proxy war KW - Regional security KW - Trump’s Grand Strategy KW - the Middle East DO - N2 - The Middle East region has been a longstanding major source of concern for American leaders due to its eternal religious and cultural relevance, a strategically pivotal location, huge oil reserves, interlocked and intractable conflicts, and the persistence of major security threats such as terrorism and the risk of nuclear proliferation. The Middle East region is undergoing security shifts. Regional security in the Middle East will be changed in Trump era. Security and power in each region has connected, empowered and influenced a new generation of young people, who are questioning political authority with new intensity. The outcomes of the Arab Spring mostly disappointed the world and its policymakers. The region is violent; disfigured by inter and intrastate conflict and by sectarian divisions. Power and security in Middle East countries has been fragmented. The nature of security in Middle East policy is based on Proxy war and Non-state actor’s initiation. Non-state actor who are active in the region, are both a symptom of state weakness and amplify the threats to states.  The Middle East region recognize with economic bedrock of the regional security as exports of hydrocarbons is under threat. Surveying the region shows that, in the throes of historic turmoil and facing massive challenges. The US, UK and other European countries has critical interests in the region, both economic and security. Moreover, what is happening in the Middle East, it will be expanded to other regions and does not stay in the Middle East. In this situation, Trump’s policy and strategy lead to instability, turmoil and power transition. For control and leading this process, world politics to need co-operational security model with other great powers and regional actors like Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. This article, by descriptive-analytical method, seeks to study the "Trump’s Grand strategy in the Middle East". the main hypothesis emphasis that “U.S strategy on Middle East in Donald Trump policy based on offshore balancing, proxy war and increasing chaos’’.     UR - https://journal.iag.ir/article_60035.html L1 - https://journal.iag.ir/article_60035_8054239e1007b462fbf31aa0bd33e329.pdf ER -