واکاوی سیاست خارجی ایالات متحده آمریکا در خاورمیانه از منظر ژئوپلیتیک انرژی

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی مستقل

نویسندگان

1 دانشیار گروه جغرافیای سیاسی، دانشکده جغرافیا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران

2 دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیای سیاسی، دانشکده جغرافیا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران

چکیده
یکی از اولویت‌های اصلی سیاست خارجی آمریکا در خاورمیانه، تولید و انتقال انرژی، به‌ویژه نفت، بوده است. با توجه به کاهش سوخت‌های فسیلی و حرکت جهان به سمت انتقال انرژی، انرژی‌های تجدیدپذیر، به‌خصوص انرژی خورشیدی و بادی، به‌عنوان راه‌حل‌های کلیدی برای چالش‌های پایداری انرژی مطرح شده‌اند و خاورمیانه به کانون انرژی‌های تجدیدپذیر تبدیل شده است. هدف پژوهش حاضر، واکاوی سیاست خارجی آمریکا در منطقه‌ی خاورمیانه در عصر انرژی‌های فسیلی (نفت) و هم‌چنین دوران گذار به انرژی‌های تجدیدپذیر است. این پژوهش با روش‌های استدلالی و استنباطی به این سوال محوری می‌پردازد که سیاست خارجی آمریکا در منطقه‌ی خاورمیانه در چارچوب ژئوپلیتیک انرژی چگونه قابل تبیین است؟ یافته‌های پژوهش نشان می‌دهد که مناطق دارای تابش خورشید و بادخیز جهان، به‌ویژه خاورمیانه، در دوران گذار انرژی به مناطق ژئواستراتژیک و ژئواکونومیک جدیدی تبدیل می‌شوند و این امر باعث رقابت ژئوپلیتیکی قدرت‌های بزرگ خواهد شد. بنابراین، خاورمیانه هم‌چنان در اولویت سیاست خارجی آمریکا باقی می‌ماند و حضور این کشور در منطقه به‌شکل جدیدی تداوم خواهد داشت.

کلیدواژه‌ها

عنوان مقاله English

Analyzing United States Foreign Policy in the Middle East from the Perspective of Energy Geopolitics

نویسندگان English

Bahadur Zarei 1
Mohammadhossein Dashti 2
1 university of tehran
2 Department of Political Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
چکیده English

One of the main priorities of US foreign policy in the Middle East has been the production and transfer of energy, especially oil. Given the decline in fossil fuels and the world's move towards energy transition, renewable energies, especially solar and wind energy, have been proposed as key solutions to the challenges of energy sustainability, and the Middle East has become a center of renewable energies. The purpose of this study is to analyze US foreign policy in the Middle East in the era of fossil fuels (oil) and also the transition to renewable energies. This study, using argumentative and inferential methods, addresses the central question of how US foreign policy in the Middle East can be explained within the framework of energy geopolitics. The research findings show that the sunlit and windy regions of the world, especially the Middle East, will become new geostrategic and geoeconomic regions during the energy transition, and this will cause geopolitical competition between great powers. Therefore, the Middle East remains a priority for American foreign policy, and the country's presence in the region will continue in a new form.

کلیدواژه‌ها English

  • United States of America
  • Middle East
  • foreign policy
  • energy geopolitics
  • renewable energy
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