US Empire Is Changing Its Strategies in the Middle East
The Abraham Accords have cemented a counterrevolutionary bloc in the Middle East of Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. US intervention in the region is assuming a different form, but Washington’s support for authoritarian regimes is as brazen as ever.
US president Donald J. Trump, minister of foreign affairs of Bahrain Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and minister of foreign affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign the Abraham Accords on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. (Joyce N. Boghosian / the White House via Flickr)
On May 24, the US Committee to End Political Repression in Egypt organized a panel on “US Empire and Autocracy in the Middle East,” cosponsored by Internationalism from Below, Democracy for the Arab World (DAWN), the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), the Freedom Initiative, and the International Committee of Democratic Socialists of America. This is an edited transcript of the presentations at the panel. The speakers were:
Jamie Allinson: Senior lecturer in politics and international Relations at the University of Edinburgh and author of The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Aslı Bâli: Professor of law at the UCLA School of Law, founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, and former director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is coeditor of two volumes on institutional design and comparative constitutional law from Cambridge University Press.
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