The Iranian Association of International Studies International Relations Researches 2251-8444 9 1 2019 05 22 The Middle East strategy of Europe towards the United States since the Arab spring The Middle East strategy of Europe towards the United States since the Arab spring 65 100 92480 FA Amir Niakouee Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Guilan 0000-0001-8865-8824 Saeed Pirmohammadi PhD Student of Political Science and International Relations, University of Guilan Journal Article 2019 08 27 The dissolution of soviet union and the formation of a new international power structure in the last decade of the twenty century have affected international actors to adopt new security strategies in order to maintain their securities. developments present paper seeks to explain the nature of Western European security shields in the context of a global unipolar system, using Waltz's Structural Realist Theory and the Moderated Model by Birthe Hansen and Peter Taft and Andres Wivel. The period of this research is between 2011 and 2017, and three developments in the Arab Spring, the nuclear issue of Iran, and the Arab-Israeli peace process, have been considered in order to measure convergence and divergence in transatlantic political-security relations.The A glimpse of the EU's Middle East security strategy suggests that the European security strategy for Iran's nuclear program is a combination of soft bandwagoning and soft balances, while in the Arab Spring, the difficult follow-up in the current Arab struggle And Israel's soft balance has been the dominant element of Europe's security strategy.findings of the paper indicate that in the light of the use of three independent variables of relative strength, relative security and relative ideology, one can explain and derive European security strategies. The research method in this paper is descriptive-analytical and data collection is done by the library method. The dissolution of soviet union and the formation of a new international power structure in the last decade of the twenty century have affected international actors to adopt new security strategies in order to maintain their securities. developments present paper seeks to explain the nature of Western European security shields in the context of a global unipolar system, using Waltz's Structural Realist Theory and the Moderated Model by Birthe Hansen and Peter Taft and Andres Wivel. The period of this research is between 2011 and 2017, and three developments in the Arab Spring, the nuclear issue of Iran, and the Arab-Israeli peace process, have been considered in order to measure convergence and divergence in transatlantic political-security relations.The A glimpse of the EU's Middle East security strategy suggests that the European security strategy for Iran's nuclear program is a combination of soft bandwagoning and soft balances, while in the Arab Spring, the difficult follow-up in the current Arab struggle And Israel's soft balance has been the dominant element of Europe's security strategy.findings of the paper indicate that in the light of the use of three independent variables of relative strength, relative security and relative ideology, one can explain and derive European security strategies. The research method in this paper is descriptive-analytical and data collection is done by the library method. https://www.iisajournals.ir/article_92480_69f101f7b7ac805b0c07eccc8040e68f.pdf