Will the Trump Administration Rebuild the U.S. Alliance with the Gulf States? https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2017/02/will-the-trump-administration-rebuild-the-u-s-alliance-with-the-gulf-states/

February 13, 2017 | Michael Doran, Mohammed Alyahya, Ali Shihabi
About the author: Michael Doran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute. The author of Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East (2016), he is also a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and a former senior director of the National Security Council. He tweets @doranimated. Mohammed Alyahya is the editor of the English edition of Al Arabiya and a commentator on Middle East affairs. He was formerly a fellow at the Gulf Research Center, and a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and a variety of other publications.

The Obama administration worked systematically to distance itself from America’s traditional allies in the Middle East—Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf states, and Israel—so as to attempt to align with Iran. In a wide-ranging discussion, Michael Doran, Mohammed Alyahya, and Ali Shihabi express their reasoned hope that President Trump will push back against Iranian expansionism and repair relations with Saudi Arabia. (Moderated by Lee Smith. Video, 90 minutes.)

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