Post-cold War American Foreign Policy Bush Doctrine As A Case Study

Résumé: The present paper discusses the American foreign policy after the Cold War, witha particular interest to the forty –third American president George W.Bush, his administration, policy, and political decisions during his two terms. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 that ended the Cold War, the world was considered as a unipolar world, with the United States as the only remaining superpower with no one to compete, till the terrible event of the 9/11 which is ahistorical referencein changing the direction of the American foreign policy,because the history of US foreign affairs is one of the most debatable topics in the field of international relations and chiefly the George Bush presidency. So this work is about the analysis of the president foreign affairs that earned his name as “the Bush Doctrine “. This doctrine which is a new instrument of the American political history after the Truman Doctrine of deterrence and containment, the Bush Doctrine as preemption and prevention has resulted two major wars the invasion of Afghanistan and the War onIraq, for this purpose the study searches whether this new policy isconsidered as a legitimate or illegitimate.This dissertation objectively uses the technique of qualitative research through using the descriptive analytical method , to explain the historical events after the demise of the Soviet Union and the emergence of America as a hegemonic power, through describing the different events that shaped the period then analysing each one .

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