Lecture 8 Flashcards
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Saudi Bin Laden Group
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- founded by Osama’s dad, largest construction contractor in Saudi Arabia
- headed by Osama’s brother, multi billion dollar country
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The Bush Doctrine, per Robert Jervis
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- importance of domestic regime in determining foreign policy
- preventative warfare
- willingness to act unilaterally when necessary
- US must assert primacy to achieve stability
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Neoconservatism in the 1970s
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- counter culture from the 60s
- strongly advocates for the use of military power to advance US interests, and democracy promotion
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PNAC
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think tank created by neoconservatives, called for the US to use military power to maintain hegemonic state
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2003 Invasion of Iraq
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- stated reasons for invasion were WMDs, terrorism and human rights concerns
- the war devastated the country of Iraq
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Aftermath of US War in Iraq
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fragmented society, weak and unstable state with diverse ethnic composition, which made iraq very susceptible to outside influence, leading to the rise of ISIS
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Foreign Lobbies
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foreign countries can lobby during US elections, the true figures of their spending are not known
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Walt and Mearsheimer on Israeli Lobby
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- US national interests should be the primary objective of US fp
- Israel may have been a strategic asset during the Cold War, but afterwards became a liability