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Click below to continue reading this story, discover more Middle East stories from over 25 years of RealClear archives, or follow this topic to stay in the know. F. Gregory Gause III • Middle East Institute Cudi Zerey • RealClearDefense Washington has good reasons to direct more attention and resources toward China and the Indo-Pacific. But treating the campaign against ISIS as...
In many ways, the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and the war in Gaza that preceded it seem transformative. After decades of shadow warfare, Iran and Israel have now attacked each other’s homelands directly. And Israel and the United States have joined forces in a genuinely novel way to wage war against Iran. The Islamic Republic has lost its supreme leader of 36 years and much of its defense infrastructure.
Gause sees the three big states of Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, together with the small states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, as forming a distinct system of international relations in which the foreign policy of each country is shaped largely by its relations with the others (plus its relationship with a dominant outside actor). He demonstrates the workings of this distinctive system from the early 1970s to the present.
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