U.S Middle East Policy Must Contend with the New Power on the Block | Hoover Institution

U.S Middle East Policy Must Contend with the New Power on the Block | Hoover Institution: The year 1993 is not normally seen as a geopolitically defining year. As Bill Clinton took the oath of office in Washington, the big geopolitical events of the past few years -- the fall of the Soviet Union, the first Gulf War, the rise of newly independent Eastern European states - continued to reverberate but the world, it seemed, had entered the post-Cold War peace dividend