Session 8 - The US and the World - 1989-2001 Flashcards
Date of Bush Presidency ?
1989-1993
How was the end of Cold War ?
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union (1991) marks the end of séparation between the 2 blocs
The end of the Bipolaire world - necessity of a new world order
3 main principles :
- Fukuyama - The end of history
- Huntington - The Clash of Civilisation
- Krauthammer - The Unipolar Moment
The 1st Gulf War ?
1990-1991 :
Iran invades oil-rich Kuweit
UN Security Council Résolution 678 authorize the use of Force
Opération Desert Storm led by a coalition of 28 countries
Cease fire
The CNN effect. ?
Media power over FP policy = constant news coverage alter perception of politician/public opinion on their belli of what FP should be
G.B beleive in ?
UN + America Exceptionalism
Date Clinton Presidency ?
1993-2001
Clinton Post Cold War Policy ?
Hangover with economic concerns with huge rate of unemployement
Regret the Cold War/Clinton is nostalgie because is it harder to persuade people to do things when they are threatened. No common enemy = no national effort
Containment to Enlargement ?
National Security Advisor : Anthony Lake advocates shirting from containment to a strategy of enlargement - of the world free Community of Marker democraties
(4 composants : Streghten major market démocraties/ counter the agression/pursue humanitarian agenda / consolidante new democracies and market économies)
H-R Free Trade ?
Principle of Right to Protect with intervention in Somalia, Haiti and Yougoslavia
Pax Americana ?
Peace will be brought under the leadership of the US, it will work for the démocratisation of all countries
The Indispensable Nation ?
Clinton Declares the U.S as the IN, Calling for Actions where the American Interest and values are at a stake but not playing the world policeman
