...The New World Order: Not Built in a Day Luke Nosko 2011-04-02 David Tabachnick Word Count: 3028 The end of the Cold War, marked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, was the beginning of an unprecedented geopolitical scenario in modern times, namely the existence of a lone superpower nation which easily dominated the other countries of the world in terms of military strength and international economic and political influence. With this never-before-seen position of power in the modern, globalized world came the heightened importance of American foreign policy decisions, and the world waited to see how the US would react to being thrust abruptly into this role of the unipole of world power. The first test of US foreign policy as the sole superpower would actually come before the official dissolution of the USSR (though it had been in steep economic decline for some time), when Saddam Hussein lead the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. US President George H. W. Bush would place this conflict into perspective for the countries now looking to the US for leadership in his address to a joint session of Congress and the nation on September 11, 1990, and it was then that he most famously claimed that the US would strive to establish and protect the concept of a New World Order (NWO): “We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these...
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...which we are either pushed to declare war against another country because we were threatened or we do it because we feel the necessity to save that other country from their enemy. Probably one of the biggest instances was after the September 11 terrorist attack in New York city. After this happened president Bush sent out troops to Afghanistan and declare war against them. In another note a more recent event was the Libyan attack known as: Operation Odyssey Dawn. It's only purpose was to enforce a no-fly zone and to prevent the Libyan's from attacking their own citizens. In 2012 troops were deployed to the border of Jordan and Syria to help contain the civil war that was happening within the border of Syria. As we can see from this few examples United States is always available to help other nations in need, sometimes regardless of what it might cost the country. The question that some citizens have is where do we draw the line and stop providing our military to other people. From a debate that was done in the subject about United States...
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...FDR’s Dilemmas Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s isolationist ways helped him to overcome certain dilemmas in the United States including the Great Depression, challenges to liberal democracy from international socialism and fascism and responses to the gathering storms going on in Asia and Europe by allowing him to focus on America and develop programs such as The New Deal as well as implement Neutrality Acts. In From Colony to Superpower, George Herring deconstructs isolationism: The term isolationism has often and mistakenly been applied to all of U.S. history. It works best for the 1930s. To be sure, the United States never sought to cut itself off completely as China and Japan had done before the nineteenth century. Americans took a keen interest in events abroad, maintained diplomatic contact with other nations, and sought to sustain a flourishing trade. But their passionate 1930s quest to insulate the nation from foreign entanglements and war fully merits the label isolationist (522). FDR entered office during one of the country’s toughest periods, the Great Depression. Herring writes, “The years from 1931 to 1941 brought major changes in the U.S. foreign policy. Responding to the Great Depression and the threat of a new world war, Americans in the mid-1930’s embraced isolationist attitudes and endorsed neutrality policies…” (1055). What made Roosevelt one of the most popular presidents of the United States was his naturally strong and deep connection to the people...
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...In a further attempt to stymie the Japanese, the US also turned to “instituting a full embargo on exports to Japan (and) freezing Japanese assets in U.S. banks.” (Road to Pearl Harbor 1) Unlike previous interventionist policies the US, with this action, took an offensive move against an international power, moving the country almost completely into an interventionist mindset. The US, however, officially declared war on the Axis powers after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, bringing the nation completely out of a semi- isolationism and changing it into a fully interventionist...
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...How far did the usa maintain a policy of isolationism in foreign affairs during the 1920s? During the 1920's, we see how america maintain there policy of isaltionism throughout, but also, how they show elements of becoming internationalists. America as a whole started of as a jellyfish, who avoided all externall contact except trade, yet soon developed to an eagle- enthusiastically committing forces to external conflicts to gain resources and influence. They remained isolationist through factors such as the rejection of the league of nations and closing doors on immigration, yet made internationalist actions such as the kellog-briand pact. There are many key factors to how america was an isolationist country. Firstly, america rejected the league of nations.Americans viewed the nations of europe as conflict-prone and likely to become involved in both internal and external disputes which could draw in the united states into another war which america had very little interest in. Although Wilson had pushed hard for the us membership, oppisition from the us senate was significant. After learning about the cost and destruction of world war one, americans did not want the united states to become entangled in yet another european conflict which could lead to another, devastating war-100,000 soldiers had died in the First World War, and many Americans couldn't see why American soldiers should die keeping peace elsewhere in the world. In the 1920', organised labour believed cheap...
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...economic interests, as well as its mission to spread democracy, were leading causes for intervention. There is a fine line between encouraging change in countries and interfering in their international affairs; however, the U.S. has repeatedly crossed it. The Mexican-American War was a major military intervention for the US. The United States began to infringe upon Mexico’s sovereignty in the 1840s when the American mission of manifest destiny advances the United States’ economic interests of Westward expansion throughout Mexican territory (Lecture Sept. 24). In this case, the American public, which was influenced by the Polk administration, justified and disguised means for war and territorial and economic expansion as being “pioneers of civilization,” (Herring 201) and spreading the blessing of democracy; American public support for the war was strong. Moreover, Mexican land was the driving factor of the war because Polk considered Western territory to the Pacific Coast to be valuable as it would be pivotal to increase American power, as well as important to conquer before European powers could ally with Mexico, hindering US expansion. He therefore convinced Congress that this was enough of a threat to declare war. It was Polk’s mission to secure the border of the Rio Grande and the lands of California and New Mexico to secure additional economic and military advantage. Another example of economic interventionism was carried out by President Taft in the early 1900s. He adopted...
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...World Wars, the idea of American noninterference became a the central problem the United States government had to face; the Senate rejected the President Woodrow Wilson’s proposal to participate in the League of Nations, while Congress passed several neutrality acts in the 1930s and urged to stay neutral as Europe moved closer to another major war. Similar to the events of the First World War, the United States at start did not participate in World War II but was forced to wage war against the Axis Powers the day after the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Even in a time when the country was in such a devastating strife, American non-interventionists were still urging for the prevention of future conflict and promoted future isolationism. Despite being uninvolved in foreign conflicts and alliances for more than a century of its existence, the United States of America struggled to maintain neutrality in the 20th century because it prevented the nation to protect its interests and national security. On April 22, 1793, President George Washington formally announced the Proclamation of Neutrality, declaring the United States of America to be neutral in the French Revolutionary Wars and threatening to hold legal proceedings in court against any American who provide aid in overseas wars. Though France had assisted in American victory during the American Revolutionary War, the United States could not help them and Washington's cabinet agreed that neutrality was indispensable...
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...Bibliography – Cold War Task MH 1. Waltz 1979. 2. See, for example, Kennedy 1987; Snyder 1991; and McKeown 1991. 3. Foreign Relations of the United States 1950, I, 252. 4. Nitze 1980, 172. 5. Gowa 1994. 6. See Frieden 1994; and Gibbs 1990. 7. See McKeown 1984; and Baldwin 1985. 8. Nelson 1988, 800-808. 9. Magee, Brock, and Young 1989. 10. Magee, Brock, and Young 1989, 101-10. 11. Sectoral conflict arguments are often used to explain foreign economic policy. Since James Kurth's seminal article on the topic, many other scholars have made related arguments about sectoral conflict; see Kurth 1979. Ferguson and Frieden link interwar U.S. foreign economic policy to competing blocs of capital-intensive, internationally oriented firms, and labor-intensive, domestically oriented industries; see Ferguson 1984; and Frieden 1988. Gourevitch relates the policy responses to economic crises in the United States and Western Europe to the coalitions among various industrial sectors; see Gourevitch 1986. Many others, including Baldwin; Cassing, McKeown, and Ochs; and Milner have addressed the influence of differently situated industries in the development of trade policy; see Baldwin 1985; Cassing, McKeown, and Ochs 1986; and Milner 1988. Whereas most recent work on sectoral conflict has focused primarily on foreign economic policy, some classic accounts of foreign policy link sectoral conflict to states' broader international orientation; see Hobson [1902] 1965, 46-63; and Kehr 1977...
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...The Rwandan Genocide: Reasons for the non-intervention by the United States. ´´ In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.´´ - Kofi Annan RESIT By: Amber Vos S2380285 Lecturer: Miss Justine Jones Group 3 Word Count: 2639 Table of Content Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The legacy of Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Lack of National Support . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The role of the media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Introduction On April the 6th 1994, the Hutu population of Rwanda attacked the Tutsi minority. In the short period of hundred days approximately 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi’s, were killed. Even the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which...
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...with the common law’s structure, causing the previously flexible equity to constrict to the common law’s judicial protocol. Equity in Australia has lost much of its original flexibility to the strict rules of precedent, a consequence of this ‘fusion’. Though equity’s flexibility has been constrained, significant developments in Australian’s legal context have occurred, including, the development of the principles like ‘estoppel by conduct’. Developments became rare with precedential growth, leading the Court to preference extending the application of accepted equitable doctrines or the determining previously restricted categories to include formerly extraneous situations, as alternatives to overruling long accepted principles. One such example, is the expansion of the doctrine of ‘undue influence’ and development of a wife’s ‘special equity’ as expounded in Yerkey v Jones[3] (Yerkey). As Latham CJ noted in Yerkey the principle was linked to a time when equity gave married women ‘… special protection in relation to transactions affecting her separate property.’[4] Illustrating where the...
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...Eastern Europe. However, the event which cemented the outbreak of the Cold War was Stalin imposing the Berlin Blockade, taking direct action towards weakening the Americans’ position. One may see that Stalin’s blockade resulted in the official creation of two separate German states, one of the most significant events of the Cold War. On the other hand, revisionists point out that the USSR was taking defensive measures to protect itself from anything that could have caused as much damage as the Second World War, while the Americans, who were superior economically, adopted provocative policies. They challenged the patience of the Russians by hiding crucial events from them, while a range of public speeches and declarations of the need for US intervention in Europe were seen as hostile by the Russians. The US actively had a role in the battle against communism by developing the policy of containment. The Americans also had a fault in provoking and heightening the Berlin Blockade, hence initiating the division of Germany. Nonetheless, the middle ground...
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...US History Policeman of the World The US Military conflict in Iraq started when the United States invaded Iraq. It was followed by long period of fighting to combat the occupying forces and the newly formed Iraqi government. The reason for the invasion on Iraq was, the US believed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and presented a threat to US security and after the bombing of the twin towers in New York. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was also accused of sheltering and aiding al-Qaeda but no evidence was ever found to prove that. Other stated reasons for the invasion of Iraq was Iraq's financial support for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, Iraqi government human rights abuses and an effort to spread democracy to the country. Later after investigating it was concluded that Iraq had already ended its nuclear, chemical and biological programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they envisioned resuming activities if the Iraq sanctions were lifted. However, when public favored increasingly for the withdrawals of the troops from Iraq and as Iraqi forces started to take responsibility for security, member nations of the Coalition withdrew their forces. Later, the U.S. decided to completely withdraw military personnel from Iraq in December 2011. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the US, the US military has been continuously intervening the internal affairs Afghanistan from...
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...of war when mutual interests are obtained. For example, in the case of the Iranian nuclear programs, the United States worked through multilateral channels in a coalition to impose sanctions on their economy instead of using military forces (Obama, 2014). This indicates Mr. Obama’s awareness that working with other countries helps solve issues peacefully, and consider that acting as a soft power is more effective. Moreover, liberals will like the fact that the United States respects the rules of law and working with international institutions. “[I]n the 21st century, America isolationism is not an option. [Mr. Obama says he will] make sure America is out front putting together a global framework to preserve our planet” (Obama, 2014). After World War II, the affinity that the United States has had with the international institutions has conserved peace in the world system. For example, NATO, United Nations, World Bank, and I.M.F., although they are not perfect (Obama, 2014). Have risen the steadiness...
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...An American Policy in Transitioning Middle Eastern Environments For many decades the Middle East region dealt with power struggles, badly drawn borders, and the Arab-Israeli conflict or Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These examples are just some of what plagues the region and attests to their continued unstableness. The Middle East will undoubtedly remain unstable now and through the near future as it tries to rewrite constitutions, call for reforms, and is engaged in ongoing protests. Regardless, building a stable economic power and government is not one simple solution and takes time. As some nations strive for liberal democracies or constitutional monarchies, there must be political pluralism and with that secularism or at least pseudo-secularism. All things equal, the U.S. foreign policy must see a change in its promotion— a different, new way to deal with the Middle East as a whole and the diverse specific countries. There is no question as to whether conflict will arise in other countries within the Middle East, we know it will, but how the U.S. chooses to position itself in the fight includes stability and democracy on the overall position and relationships and development in terms of specific countries. This paper explains steps that could be taken in forming a U.S. foreign policy in the emerging Middle East region. Some people educated or not about foreign affairs are pushing for the U.S. to take action and use the Middle East crises as an advantage. They want...
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...Grace Lee 105 Korea The Political Philosophy of Juche Grace Lee Introduction The political philosophy known as juche became the official autarkic state ideology of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1972.1 Although foreign scholars often describe juche as “self-reliance,” the true meaning of the term is much more nuanced. Kim Il Sung explained: Establishing juche means, in a nutshell, being the master of revolution and reconstruction in one’s own country. This means holding fast to an independent position, rejecting dependence on others, using one’s own brains, believing in one’s own strength, displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, and thus solving one’s own problems for oneself on one’s own responsibility under all circumstances. The DPRK claims that juche is Kim Il Sung’s creative application of Marxist-Leninist principles to the modern political realities in North Korea.2 Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il have successfully wielded the juche idea as a political shibboleth to evoke a fiercely nationalistic drive for North Korean independence and to justify policies of self-reliance and self-denial in the face of famine and economic stagnation in North Korea. Kim Il Sung envisioned three specific applications of juche philosophy: political and ideological independence, especially from the Soviet Union and China; economic self-reliance and self-sufficiency; and a viable national defense system.3 This paper begins with a discussion of the three...
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