Abstract
This chapter examines US policy toward the Middle East under the Obama and Trump administrations and argues that disastrous US policies during this period significantly contributed to regional turbulence and the end of America’s unrivalled dominance in the Middle East. The chapter demonstrates how both US military and non-military policies generated dynamics that intensified competition between states and produced greater instability. The construction of American interests in the Middle East produces contradictory, often self-defeating policies that produce tragic outcomes, which are described as ‘the tragedy of American interests.’ Obama’s approach to the Middle East is characterized as ‘tragic,’ while Trump’s policies are described as ‘melodramatic’ because Trump was both unaware of these contradictions and viewed the region in moral dichotomies of good an evil.
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