The Regional Order in West Asia; A Study of the Strategic Conflict between the Resistance Axel and the United States of America in Order to Restore Optimal Order

The historical transformation in the West Asian region indicates that the super powers of the world have repeatedly tried to extend their influence in the region in order to establish the order that works best in their interest. In the last years of the 1980s and after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a new discourse gradually emerged in West Asia. The axis of resistance, led by the Islamic Republic of Iran, had the justice-seeking and hegemony-fighting discourse and never tolerated the current international liberal order and claimed that the status quo was based on an unjust nature. On the regional level, the resistance discourse could little by little establish itself as the anti-discourse of the hegemony in the region. Since the most important principle for the optimal order in the region was considered to be the provision of security for Israel, liberation of the holy Qods and Palestine became the most fundamental principle of optimal order for the resistance in the region. The resistance and the United States of America have had many altercations over the strategy and regional order since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, but the general estimations based on many overt and covert conflicts (such as the eight-year imposed war, the 33-day war, the 22-day war, Islamic awakening, the crisis of the autocratic Islamic government in Iraq and Syria and the recent war in Gaza) all show that the resistance optimal order is developing in the West Asia region. As a result of these changes, the regional order was established by the regional actors in favor of the axis of resistance. The present study aims at investigating the current situation by recounting the evolutionary process of the dominant order in the West Asia region during the contemporary period using a theoretical analysis of the regional order.