Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun lokacin da aka kafa ta, Jordan ta dogara da tallafi daga manyan ƙasashen yamma. Burtaniya ta cika wannan rawar har zuwa ƙarshen 1940s; Amurka ta shiga cikin 1950s. A lokacin Yakin Gulf na 1991, Jordan ta yi kokarin magance halin da ake ciki a cikin tsarin Larabawa wanda Amurka ta fassara a matsayin Iraqi. A sakamakon haka, Amurka ta fara sa ido kan tashar jiragen ruwa ta kasar, Aqaba, don hana duk wani kayan aiki daga isa Iraki. Jordan ta sha wahalar kudi saboda wannan, kuma halaye game da Amurka sun inganta ne kawai a yayin taron Madrid na 1991
, inda Amurka ta dauki halartar Jordan a matsayin muhimmi.