“West Asia After Washington is critical to understanding why a better future for West Asia depends on Iran, a relatively small country in the region in terms of GDP or weapons reserves and why it is often misunderstood by many parties due to Western media propaganda. Iran has a very strategic geopolitical position, so the alliance between Iran and China and Russia will produce a multipolar power capable of fighting US hegemony. Anderson tells the story in detail, enabling readers to see the big map of all the conflicts and that all are intertwined.”
——Dr DINA SULAEMAN, Indonesian Centre for Middle East Studies, author, Snow in Aleppo

“A fascinating research on how the U.S. regime-change invasions and proxy wars .. [have] sparked acceleration of geopolitical changes .. building a resistance joint front and the dismantling of Israel while paving the way for .. alternative international and regional organizations.”
——Dr. AMAL WAHDAN, founder and editor, Arab Gazette

“A great analysis of how the western colonial Empire led itself towards demise on west Asia, after decades of looting natural resources, instigating wars, funding terrorism, murdering millions and eventually pushing the birth of a regional resistance that pinned the last nail in the coffin of US hegemony and domination in our region. The unipolar world is no more, reading Professor Tim's book explains how and why it started from west Asia.”
——Dr. MARWA OSMAN, academic and TV presenter, Lebanon

At the turn of the century Washington launched a series of invasions and proxy wars against all the independent peoples and states of the region, in the name of creating a ‘New Middle East’. That offensive involved mass propaganda and the use of large proxy-terrorist armies, especially sectarian Islamist groups armed and financed by Washington and its regional allies, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Israel. Resistance to that regional war led to the formation of a loose regional bloc, led by Iran, which is now forming more substantial relations with the wider counter-hegemonic blocs led by China and Russia, in particular the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

West Asia After Washington addresses how, as Washington’s multiple wars for a subjugated ‘New Middle East’ fail, the global order is shifting against the North American giant. China is displacing the USA as the productive and economic center of the world and new global organizations are competing with those created by the Anglo-Americans. It is in this global context we must understand the future of the Arabic and Islamic countries of the Middle East, now often called West Asia in reflection of that new orientation.

Among other things, this alliance is making real what North American intelligence has long feared and termed an ‘Iranian land-bridge’, extending to the Mediterranean in the west and as far as China in the east. That ‘land bridge’ between East Asia and Europe centers on Iran, the largest independent state of the region and is, from a Zionist perspective, thought to represent “the most serious long term existential threat to Israel” because it forms a united resistance front in support of the colonized Palestinian people.
This book discusses the wars of hegemonic decline, the roots of Western fascism, Zionist cancel culture, the Kurdish card in Syria, the purging of Christians from the ‘New Middle East’, the betrayal of Yemen, and takes us inside Syrian Idlib. Then it looks into the near future, considering Washington’s strategic retreat, the legacy of murdered Iranian Commander Qassem Soleimani, and the possibilities of dismantling Apartheid Israel and the lifting of the siege on Syria and its recovery. The Iranian land bridge to China, Iran’s Resistance Economy, regional integration, and the challenge of multipolarity offer insight into the West Asian region after Washington.

Dr. Tim Anderson is Director of the Sydney-based Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies. He worked as an academic at Australian universities for more than 30 years, teaching, researching and pushing on: human rights in development, self-determination in development, independent regional integration and resistance to the wars of the 21st century. Hs most recent research books are Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (2015), The Dirty War on Syria (2016), Axis of Resistance: towards an Independent Middle East (2019), and The Pandemic and Independent Countries (2020).