...This chapter concludes the significance of indirect rule and its implications for the International Relations Theory. The United States has employed indirect rule in the Arab Middle East, Caribbean and Central America, and Western Europe. The chapter also looks into the consequences of indirect...

...This chapter focuses on hierarchy in the Arab Middle East. The United States faces a real threat of exploitation and entrapment from its subordinates after supporting small elite regimes in the Arab Middle East. Moreover, the United States gets limited policy concession but extensive opportunism...

...This chapter tackles the indirect rule in the Arab Middle East (AME). It explains how indirect rule is a primary means through which the United States exercises power in the Middle East. Oil and the need to protect transit routes pulled the United States into the region, which eventually resulted...