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American Foreign Policy and Global Challenges

Introduction

U.S. foreign policy is the policy of the United States in relation to other countries and sets standards of interaction for organizations, companies and citizens, since there is huge U.S. influence in the world. The reach of the United States supported by an economy worth $ 15 trillion, about a quarter of GDP worldwide , and the defense budget by $ 711 billion, equivalent to around 43% of military expenditure worldwide.

But in general, USA not share many of the issues of the international agenda, particularly issues like the ICC and the Kyoto Protocol (global warming of the earth) Treaty banning nuclear testing, arms control mechanisms NBC. However, approached the UN after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, obtaining the legitimacy to the war against terrorism and that has meant that the UN serves their interests. It can be concluded in this chapter that after the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, major international organizations supported the actions of the United States of America against terrorist groups, so we can say that, at the global level, policy U.S. foreign has received the necessary support to realize their actions were therefore international legitimacy to counter the actions of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda throughout the world.

Discussion

Five primary schools of thought

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, United States American foreign policy has changed for better control of the international system and face the consequences of the new alignment of culture and civilization you want privilege. To explain this, firstly it is shown that both the U.S. and the terrorist organizations assume the conflict from the point of view civilization, in this sense, shows that the theory of the "Clash of Civilizations" is valid to explain the events studied (Wittkopf, Eugene et al, pp. 56-58). Furthermore, this research analyzes the foreign policy of the United States of America the individual, state and global, to demonstrate how each of these levels the facts terrorists of September 11, 2001 affected variables influencing the research topic.

A comparison is made ??between the foreign policy of the United States of America before and after September 11, 2001 to the following regions: Latin America, Europe, Russia, Middle East and Asia. In this sense, it shows what changes occurred in foreign policy U.S. to each of these regions. Finally, a policy analysis outside U.S., based on the events before the attack on Iraq (20 Tues 2003). After September 11 the situation in the Middle East became more complicated after the war on terrorism declared by the United States. Realizing that the situation of Palestinians has been one of the ingredients of systematic hatred of America, they have responded with the initiative to create a Palestinian state, but the effort to disown Yasser Arafat as the legitimate representative of the Palestinians and the failure to ensure that Israel respects autonomy of the territories occupied by them, has made ??the one hand to strengthen the image of Arafat ...