ABSTRACT
The possibility of constructing a regional security community in South Asia and the Middle East is possible, but only if it first becomes imaginable, especially in the mind of the American foreign policy establishment (AFPE). While the United States prepares for future wars, it does not imagine the possibility of peace. Paradoxically, the United States has the capability to lead a regional peace effort if it could find the national will. Such a possibility could become reality if a bottom-up antiwar social movement in the United States would help to decolonize the mind of the AFPE into imagining the possibility of a world security community.
