China Russia and the USA in the Middle East

The shift in international relations towards multipolarity has had profound implications across the world but particularly in highly penetrated regions such as the Middle East. This book explores the rivalry between the USA Russia and China in the region investigating its effects and assessing the influence of regional actors and issues.Each chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of three core questions: How does global power competition manifest itself? How does it impact regional political economic and security dynamics? How do regional actors and issues influence the trajectory and dynamics of global power competition?Expert international contributors take a country case study approach to consider these questions and investigate the most pressing contemporary events issues and trends in Middle Eastern politics. Tackling transregional and global issues and themes they analyse the convergence divergence and competition between global powers in managing threats and interests such as terrorism energy and cyber security nuclear non-proliferation conflict resolution and warfare.This volume will appeal to scholars and students of international relations great power competition China Russia the USA and the Middle East.Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.