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Abstract

This study is a critique of how the United States strategically engineers instability in the region as one way of ensuring international hegemony and in strengthening the dominance of the U.S dollar. Rooted in the ideological framework of controlled chaos, the analysis argues that the prolonged viability of adversarial states, including Iran, North Korea, and Russia, is not accidental or purely reactive in nature, but rather consciously manages to keep itself in a state of uncertainty in the field of insecurity. This controlled instability, the paper states, has several interconnected aims, which include spurring the profitability of the defense industry, justification of broad military deployments, maintenance of the so-called petrodollar system, and protection of the dollar as the predominant global reserve currency. Bringing together the tools of geopolitical analysis, macroeconomic data, and case studies, the study explains the systemic insecurity mechanism as the inherent component of the U.S. grand strategy, with a long-term impact on the international order, financial instability, and regional self-rule.