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also by rather solid ideology of political systems based on Arab national-
ism in a number of Arab countries and anti-imperialist Zionist stance and
policy of the leaders of these countries.
More favorable conditions for establishing American domination
in the Middle East were created in the 20 th century when globalization,
making the borders of states more transparent, gradually began to absorb
the world, and integration processes began to target the component of na-
tional identity. It was in this period that within the framework of global
politics the spread of political concepts of the formation of new, modern
systems of governance in diff erent countries began to be implemented
more often, which in essence should not only make these countries more
democratic, but also dependent from the country that had spread these
concepts. During this period, the borders of international terrorism also
expanded, which enabled the United States to motivate this or that expan-
sionist policy as well.
In this context, diff erent expert centers of the USA, according to their
perception, have proposed a more eff ective concept of disseminating
American domination, fi rst of all targeting despotic regimes, particularly
in the Middle East, and aiming to collapse the existing political systems
in those countries and introduce the American democratic model instead,
establishing the offi cial Washington’s control over them.
The vision of the new concept of the American strategy
in the Middle East
The concept of “The Great Middle East 1 or the Reconstruction of the
Middle East” was fi rst publicized by G.W. Bush Jr on November 6, 2003,
in his speech 2 at the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Authors of “The Great Middle East or the Middle East Reconstruc-
tion” concept are H. Kissinger, G. Durpath, D. Rumsfeld, D. Cheney, C.
Rice, R. Perl, P. Wolfowitz, M. Grossman and a number of other well-
known American offi cials and politicians. Noteworthy is the fact that
Arab-American intellectuals too have played an important role in devel-
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2
“Plans for Readrawing the Middle East: the Project for a “New Middle East,,” Global Re-
search, October 24, 2018, https://www.globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-
east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/3882 (accessed November 10, 2017).
It is symbolic that the National Endowment for Democracy was established in 1983 by US
President R. Reagan, “for the purpose of strengthening the democratic institutions in the
world” See: Evseev V.V., Kontsepsia “Bolshoy Blijniy Vostok” pod uglom natsionalnoy
bezopasnosti (in Russian) [The concept “Middle East from an angle of National Security”],
Natsionalnaya bezopasnost, (4 (27), 2013), April 27, 2013, http://www.nbpublish.com/li-
brary_get_pdf.php?id=25426, (accessed September 15, 2017).
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