Particularly after the Arab Spring protests, the Middle East has witnessed an escalation of regional rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia perpetuated by a Sunni‐Shiite divide that has manifested itself in political landscapes in Iraq, Bahrain, and proxy wars in Yemen and Syria. When US President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia in 2017, he recommended the establishment of the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA) that would act as a bulwark against Iran's regional ambitions. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, and Egypt were designated as prospective MESA member states. This article discusses MESA by evaluating the dynamics that create a permissive environment for its establishment and numerous hurdles to the formation of a new security organization in the region.

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区域动态与中东战略联盟的未来

特别是在“阿拉伯之春”抗议活动之后，中东目睹了逊尼派与什叶派之间的分歧，加剧了伊朗与沙特阿拉伯之间的区域对抗，这种冲突已表现在伊拉克，巴林的政治形势以及也门和叙利亚的代理战争中。美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）在2017年访问沙特阿拉伯时，他建议建立中东战略联盟（MESA），该联盟将成为抵制伊朗地区野心的堡垒。沙特阿拉伯，巴林，卡塔尔，科威特，阿拉伯联合酋长国，阿曼，约旦和埃及被指定为MESA的潜在成员国。本文通过评估为建立MESA创造宽松环境的动力以及在该地区组建新的安全组织的众多障碍来讨论MESA。