The End of the American Middle East: The Collapse of Imperial Politics and the Rise of a Sovereign West Asia

"The End of America's Middle East". "Iran and the Last Campaign of a Failed Order". That doesn't exactly sound like "Hooray, we won", see...

Maybe it's time to start looking at the world differently than only through the eyes of the West. Through the eyes of a multipolar world. And also to start calling that place "Western Asia" instead of "Middle East", because the locals perceive it a bit hurtful, as I was amicably instructed by one diplomat. "Middle" or "Middle" East? Close to what? In the middle of what? Of the British Empire, halfway between London and British India? Long time no...

Zdroj: Foreign Affairs - Marc Lynch, The End of the American Middle East