Check out "The Shirking Hegemon: Authority and Insecurity in Trump’s Middle East" by Sean Yom, featured in POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East
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Sean Yom, Temple University US foreign policy during President Trump’s second term has subverted the strategy of weak and vulnerable states when contracting with the US as a hegemonic power through a ...