Clearly, President Biden cannot afford to stay in the Middle East.

We have too many other things domestically and with China to be focused on the Middle East.

But in order to leave the Middle East, the United States has to find ways to reduce tensions in the Middle East.

Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.

Here you'll find extended versions of the interviews from my show on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer, and today, a look at the changing geopolitics of the Middle East.

Iran, Israel, and Turkey are becoming increasingly important players as the Biden administration

hopes to shift U.S. focus to Asia, and specifically to China.

Can the new administration succeed in getting out of the so-called Middle East quagmire and at what cost?

My guest today, Valley Nasser, he's professor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University

and a foremost expert on the region.

In a recent article for foreign policy, he declared, quote, the Arab moment has passed.

I'll ask him what that means and how it impacts the future of the Middle East.

Let's get to it.

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Professor Valley Nasser, great to be with you, sir. Thanks for joining. Thank you. It's good to be

with you. So you were recently in foreign policy that the Arab moment has passed.

But what did you mean by it? Well, I meant that the Arabs are not really deciding the geostrategia

of the region. They're not the strongest players right now. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the

events of the Arab Spring, the bigger players like Iraq, Syria, Egypt lost their footing.

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