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David Schenker is the Aufzien Fellow and director of the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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How the United States Should Help Protect Jordan from the Chaos Next Door

David Schenker   Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 10:13 AM

The Middle East has been engulfed in chaos. Longstanding authoritarian regimes have been toppled; still other dictators have killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions in an effort to retain power. Iran’s Shiite proxy militias have spread throughout the region, fueling sectarianism and broadening the appeal of nihilistic Sunni Islamist jihadist groups. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Egypt—two longstanding pillars of Washington’s strategic architecture in the Middle East—have been shaken by economic troubles.