Strategy of the Trump's Government on Iraq

پژوهش نامه ایرانی سیاست بین الملل

Article 4, Volume 9, Issue 1 - Serial Number 17, June 2021, Pages 85-110   

Document Type: مقالات

DOI: 10.22067/ijip.v9i1.79730

Authors

Hamid Dorj^{* 1}; hadi ajili²

¹PhD student in International Relations, University of Guilan

²Associate professor of International Relations, Allameh Tabatabaei University

Abstract

Iraq's developments are one of the most important issues of West Asia, which in the years after 2003 involved somehow all foreign actors and the role of the United States as an interventionist player in Western Asian regional developments. Washington views the developments in Iraq as an important factor in redefining the regional order and has made the developments in its Middle East policy with the aim of achieving regional goals and interests. So the question is, what is the policy of the United States in its new strategy on the developments in Iraq? The research hypothesis is that the United States has adopted an aggressive and aggressive policy towards Iraq's developments in pursuit of its interests and objectives, such as reducing the regional influence of Iran and accessing Iraq's oil resources. Washington, by adopting such a policy, while securing the interests of the arms dealers, will launch on the pretext that the terrorists will not return to Iraq and to stabilize in the country to consolidate the presence and role of the United States in the future of Iraq.The research method is descriptive-analytic based on the theory of neorealism.

Keywords

Iraq; Trump; Military policy; United States of America; neorealism

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