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=== The Middle East as a new American backyard ===
A number of European commentators have contended that US foreign policy in the Middle East has (intentionally or otherwise) had the effect of turning the Middle East into America's new "backyard": a new epicenter within which the US is trying to exhort influence on political developments through regime change and political pressure which resembles past US actions in Latin America.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://mondediplo.com/2007/11/03mideast| title = The United States’ new backyard |accessdate=2010-02-28| author = Alain Gresh|date=2007-11-03
| publisher= [[Le Monde Diplomatique]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.3917/crii.044.0165
| issn = 1777-554X | volume = 44 | issue = 3| pages = 165| last = Peretz| first = Pauline
| title = Philippe Droz-Vincent Vertiges de la puissance : le " moment américain " au Moyen-Orient Paris, La Découverte, 2007, 370 pages.| journal = Critique internationale| year = 2009}}</ref>
[[Martin Jacques]] refers to the Middle East as being under the US 'sphere of influence'. However this is being challenged by the presence and growth of [[Iran]], Russia, and China.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/883334381|title=When china rules the world : the end of the western world and the birth of a new global order|last=Jacques, Martin.|date=2014|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9781101151457|oclc=883334381}}</ref> Moreover, the US efforts to expand influence into the Middle East, especially with the [[Syrian Civil War]], [[Iraq War]], and [[Afghanistan War (2001-)|Afghanistan War]], have been failing, with 'disastrous' results.<ref name=":1" />
===Other nations' backyards===
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