The Bush Revolution of Foreign Policy

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This paper discusses how the American foreign policy under the current Bush administration differs significantly from the foreign policy even of Bush's father or of Ronald Reagan, two recent presidents sharing similarly conservative values and objectives. It describes the three core principles of the Bush revolution and gives examples of their implementation into foreign policy.

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"The United States pursued, during the early decades of the 20th century, a noninterventionist foreign policy that differs sharply from the interventionist one pursued by the Bush administration. Not only did World War Two-era policies forge multinational coalitions and multilateral organizations, but America's foreign policy under Roosevelt and Truman also shunned the notions of preemption and overt desires to cause international regime changes. At the same time, intervention and regime change have characterized the unspoken foreign policy ideologies of past presidents. Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Serbia are only a few of the nations targeted by the United States in a covert attempt to cause regime change. The United States, by instigating regime changes in nations viewed as possibly hostile, also acted preemptively to avoid economic or political fallout. Whereas Reagan asserted the evils of communism, Bush declares terrorism as the primary target of American interventionism."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Daalder, I.H.. "Bush's Foreign Policy Revolution: A Radical Change." Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. Sept 2004. Retrieved Sept 17, 2006 from http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/daalder/20040926.htm
• Daalder, I.H. & Lindsay, J.M. "America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy." The Brookings Review 21(4) Fall 2003, p. 206. Retrieved Sept 17, 2006 online at http://www.brookings.edu/press/review/fal2003/daalder.htm
• Daalder, I.H. & Lindsay, J.M "The Bush Revolution: The Remaking of America's Foreign Policy." The Brookings Institute. May 2003. Retrieved Sept 17, 2006 from http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/pdfs/bush_revolution.pdf#search=%22bush%20revolution%22

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