چكيده لاتين :
The professed objectives of "The Greater Middle East" initiative of President Bush are to open markets and export democracy to the Muslim World. However, while this Initiative must be understood in the context of U.S. domestic politics and, thereby, as more rhetoric than substance, the trade agreements that have been feverishly negotiated with governments of the Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia are having a substantial impact on the regulatory environment in the region. It is revealing that the Administration and Congressional supporters sell trade agreements to the American public as instruments oiי national security rather than as vehicles for greater economic opportunity, even as the Administration now sells the invasion of Iraq no longer as a national security necessity but as a democracy-building mission. In sum, as a rhetorical instrument, the Administrationיs Greater Middle East Initiative seems to be a success but, as a force for democracy in the region, the Initiative is inherently self-limiting. The two major components of the Greater Middle East Initiative are incompatible.
