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"...In the absence of, firstly, deep economic, public and other structural linkages between most countries of the Middle East and the United States, and secondly, a common strategic framework subordinating all the many bilateral US policies to each of the countries to achieve certain goals, during the 2010s the US regional strategy began to fragment into a multitude of narratives that were not always interrelated. In this regard, the Middle East, if to exclude a number of private issues, faces the prospect of occupying a peripheral position in the long-term US strategic goal-setting. It is this trend that Washington has shown in its Middle East policy over the past decade under three different presidents. Intensification of the US–Turkish partnership in the post-Soviet space, tightening of the anti-Iranian political vector and the sanctions regime, democracy promotion practices in Syria and Libya, as well as attempts to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict demonstrate the different vector imperatives of American foreign policy. Today, of the most significant trends in Washington’s global strategy, the logic of policy in the region can be determined by the anti-Chinese line insofar as relations with the Middle Eastern countries will help to weaken Beijing’s current or prospective positions. However, today this vector in the regional dimension manifests itself extremely pointwise, and its scale cannot yet indicate the beginning of a completely new stage of the United States policy in the Middle East..."

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