Barack Obama's election victory has caught the imagination of people across the world and has done much to restore the image of the US, which has taken a battering under the Bush administration, nowhere more so than in the Middle East. Mr Obama's immediate priority will be the US economy, but the Middle East will also be high on his policy agenda, both in respect of the heavy security commitments that the US has in the region and because of its central role in the world energy market.
His first challenge in the Middle East will be to decide on the future of the US troop deployment in Iraq. He will also be under pressure to elaborate coherent policies towards Iran and on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he will need to establish a new basis for US relations with the Gulf Arab states, whose global importance has increased over the past few years thanks both to their oil and gas resources and their financial clout.
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