Marc Lynch | America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Online)

“No one is better equipped than Lynch to tell this tragic story, written with passion, precision, honesty and courage.”— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker staff writer and former New York Times Middle East correspondent

For more than 30 years, the Middle East has played a pivotal role in U.S. foreign policy, including the regional Gulf War and conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, and beyond. Marc Lynch (author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East and The New Arab Wars), one of the more prominent American political scientists working on the Middle East, contends that promises to bring stability to the region and subsequent interventions have too often created and deepened instability and humanitarian crises. With his new book, America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region, Lynch examines the impact that Washington has had in the region—delivering a candid, embroiled critique of U.S. foreign policy in the region since the end of the Cold War.

Marc Lynch is Professor of Political Science and Director of Middle East Studies at The George Washington University, founder of the Abu Aardvark blog, and author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East and The New Arab Wars: Anarchy and Uprising in the Middle East.

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