This study explores how the war on terror, declared by the Bush administration after the September 11 attacks, will significantly expand American influence and presence in the Middle East. This, in turn, could lead to a reshaping of the region in line with American liberal thought: supporting and developing free governments and markets. Just as World War II and the Cold War created the opportunity for a permanent American presence in Europe and North Asia, the war on terror presents the opportunity to maximize American military and economic power in the Middle East, with profound implications for both U.S. allies and adversaries. The study's central argument focuses on the necessity of a major expansion of the "Pax Americana" in the Middle East to protect its traditional interests while advancing new ones. To achieve this, America provided significant support to allied governments like Egypt, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey to limit Soviet expansion. With the Iraq War, the Bush administration saw an opportunity to not only change the regime in Iraq but to pursue a bolder goal: reshaping the entire Middle East by using American power to establish pro-American regimes, as it had done in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

• Publishing House: Arab Scientific Publishers, Inc. - Lebanon
• Author: Bradley A. Thayer
• Number of Pages: 96
• Year of Publication: 2004
• ISBN: 9953299803
• Cover Type: Paperback