The Middle East Institute is proud to announce the release of West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East, the definitive new work by our Senior Fellow, Mohammed Soliman.
In this provocative and timely book, Soliman argues that the “Middle East” as a strategic concept has reached its end. In its place, a West Asian system is emerging, one inextricably linked to the economic and technological gravity of a rising Asia, the global ascent of the Gulf states, and the blurring of geopolitical and geoeconomic borders between the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean.
“Soliman weaves together aspects of strategy, politics, and techno-economics to outline a provocative vision of what the Middle East can become in partnership with an Asia-focused United States. A vital guide to the next era of US strategy and belongs on the desk of every policymaker in Washington,” writes Stuart Jones, President of the Middle East Institute and former Ambassador to Jordan and Iraq.