Abstract:
In recent decades, the United States has been trying to expand its influence and interventions in various parts of the world, especially the Middle East. Therefore, the Middle East has always been of American interest due to its geopolitical and geostrategic importance. Using its centers of study and strategists, it architectures the geometry of power in the region in line with its foreign strategies and policies. Nowadays phenomena such as Islamophobia, arms race, ethnic and religious conflicts, sectarianism, disintegration, undermining resistance to traditional goals (vital US interests, maintaining Israeli security, ensuring free energy flow) Has caused instability in the Middle East. So, in light of this fact, in the explanatory-analytical way, we seek to answer the question of how and to what extent American strategists have been instrumental in constructing religious wars in the Middle East. Accordingly, our hypothesis is that American strategists in think tanks and theories through theorizing and reflecting on US statesmen and political elites, along with presenting how they execute, delineate models and strategies, Religious wars have been instrumental in the Middle East. The scientific findings of the present study indicate that the strengthening of these extremist currents has been an important catalyst for the religious wars in the region that have led to sectarianism, deterrence from Israel and Islamophobia. US strategists appear to be playing a role in creating widespread instability and reviving the thirty-year European wars in the Middle East.
Machine summary:
For this reason, the United States of America, whose goal is to maximize national power and seeks to play a hegemon role in the international system, attempts to use the approach of shaping religious wars through the use of extremist currents to achieve its goals and interests in the strategic Middle East region.
Accordingly, it can be said that strategists like Henry Kissinger have played a role through direct and indirect methods in strengthening and shaping terrorist groups and increasing tensions and religious wars in the Middle East, including: supporting Israel in the 1973 war against the Arabs, supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, theorizing the Shia-Sunni war, Iranophobia and Shiaphobia, supporting the federalization of Syria and justifying the presence of ISIS to repel the danger of Iran, creating the theory of a thirty-year religious war in the Middle East and highlighting and channeling the view of regional politicians towards the competition between the Shia and Sunni blocs, as a result, it can be said that such approaches can lead to the creation of a regional cold war, political instability, and the activation of Shia and Sunni religious fault lines, and consequently drive the region towards extremism and chaos.
Huntington Fukuyama Kissinger Brzezinski Clash of Civilizations End of History and Imposing the confrontation of the Shia Replacement of extremism (Clash of Civilizations Liberal superiority and Sunni, religious war instead of communism as a new thirty-year war in the title of external enemy and Islam and the West) democracy the region and the danger of creating a direct role in creating an Iranian empire with Shia thinking Al-Qaeda Conclusion In this article, an attempt has been made to examine the intellectual foundations of American strategists using the research centers and think tanks of this country.
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