Unilateralism, Hegemonism and America’s True Contributions To a New World Order (original) (raw)
With the terrorist attacks in September 11th, the United States long-standing hegemony was clearly questioned, both from non-state and state actors. The answer to those attacks couldn’t have been more peculiar. The American foreign policy executive engendered two wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, and this latter couldn’t be justified by those same principles of international law and international organizations that America itself had helped to shape. Thus, the objective of this article is to analyze the Bush Doctrine and its worldview taking into account the debate about the distribution of power at the international system and how it lead to its opposite goal, which was the consolidation of America’s Hegemony. It concludes that when Bush and his team lost track of what the world actually expected from the United States and sought a foreign policy based on hegemonism they crafted their own country setback in world politics.
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