Economic Diplomacy in US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
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https://doi.org/10.58298/792024645Keywords:
Middle East, Economic Diplomacy, United States of America, Foreign PolicyAbstract
Controlling the Middle East and gaining the support of the region's rulers and peoples are among the priorities of American foreign policy. Since diplomacy is considered the most important tool for implementing foreign policy, it is worth paying attention to studying American diplomacy and its activity in this region, and the ways in which the United States employs diplomacy in order to preserve its interests and increase its influence in the region. American foreign policy makers also attach great importance to the economic factor when developing and implementing that policy in light of the integration between the political and economic fields and the difficulty of separating them, as the economy emerges as a means of diplomacy to enhance cooperation between countries, and at other times as a means of pressure on many countries of the world, especially the Middle Eastern countries, to manage political relations between the two parties.
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