PSCI 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bush Doctrine, Missile Defense, Humanitarian Intervention
Document Summary
Iraq, iran, and n korea: axis implies collaboration with each other and with terrorists, rogue states now considered national security threats. The price of indifference would be catastrophic : 2002 national security strategy - bush doctrine, 1. Wilsonian belief in the connection between domestic politics and foreign policy the more democracies in the world, the safer it is: 2. The legitimacy of preventive war: the longer you wait, the stronger they will get, it is better to fight now than later, 3. Defense of unilateralism: us wanted to work through allies but had the right to do what it needed to do to protect itself, 4. The idea that the us must exercise leadership for world security. Wilsonianism: global war on terrorism, afghanistan, taliban regime/ al qaeda base, original plan to minimize forces on the ground, original invasion quickly successful, bin laden gets away, other deployments after 9/11, philippines. Islamist insurgency in the philippines allied with al qaeda.
