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West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East (S. 15, Ep. 7)

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Mohammed Soliman of the Middle East Institute joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East. In the book, Soliman argues that it is time for the United States to move decisively away from nation-building and get back to the business of order-building. To do so will require zooming out, in both geographical and historical terms, to build a new regional order across ‘West Asia’ – from the Middle East to South Asia, connecting Europe to the Indo-Pacific via the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

Music for this season’s podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his website Music and Sound at www.ferasarrabi.com.

POMEPS, directed by Marc Lynch, is based at the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University and is supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

You can listen to this week’s podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or SoundCloud:

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