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An Analysis Of Influences Of Domestic Political Variables On America's Grand Strategy

Posted on:2009-01-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S Q ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360245962434Subject:International politics
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Since the famous British military ideologist B. Liddell Hart proposed the concept of the Grand Strategy in the 1930s, National Grand Strategy has gradually become the important field that attracted every country's attention. At the same time, the depth, historical view and world insight provided us with a complete new perspective for scanning the international politics and strategy of great power. As the research for great strategy went deeper and deeper, an agreement was almost achieved by native and foreign scholars, that is, the strategic design concerned national safety. Yet what restrictive factors should be considered, the relationship between the restrictions of native factors and international ones, which one is more powerful, and how to realize the strategic goal and balance, a series of such questions became the heatedly discussed focus of the academic world. This essay will have a summary of this and it focuses on the impact and restrictions of national political parameters on Grand Strategy. It also tries to analyze the restrictions of American political parameters on the Grand Strategy through the analysis of the typical case of America.Since the new century, untraditional safety became the main threat to world peace, which stimulated the further reform in safety view and strategy of powerful countries. America's Grand Strategy is the centralized reflection of this. Since George Bush became the President in 2001, the new conservatism's safety view penetrated into the nation's foreign policies and the disposal of the Grand Strategy. Especially after the terrorist attack of"9·11", American people's prevailing pessimistic spirit and the sense of unsafety were highly strengthened. People went closer to new conservatism, all the classes united like they have never before and the two parties agreed like they never had. President Bush, with the strong support of the whole nation, started successively the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. The President thus called himself"War President". However, things didn't go as he expected, and the Bush Government was also stuck in the war against Iraq. Confronted with the gradual increase in the death of the soldiers stationed in Iraq, the big chaos of situation in Iraq and the strong international condemn, division and betrayal appeared in the country. Firstly, there is a big difference between the new conservatism'ideology of safety strategy and the cruel reality of the war against Iraq. The national strategy view began to change, and people inclined to accept the international mechanism and the foreign strategic concept of the multilateralism. Secondly, a division appeared in the elite decision-making group and the parties had serious disagreements. The public voice also went away from the"War President". The Bush Government nearly collapsed except the support from the main interest groups like war industry and energy sources. In 2006, the Republics failed in the mid-election, the power was lost and President Bush's handicap seemed more evident.America is famous for its Grand Strategy. Although the international system and situation are important outside environment that could not be neglected, the central factors are the influences and restrictions of the national political parameters. This essay tries to get a clearer generalization of American strategic decision through analyzing the influences and restrictions that some important political parameters such as the decision-making group, parties and the public interests have upon the Grand Strategy. Meanwhile, it tries to find the advantages and disadvantages, which may give some inspirations to handling the Sino-U.S. relationship. At present, China is developing peacefully. To make a nation powerful and prosperous, we have to have a peaceful and stable international environment. Sino-U.S. relationship is a significant in our foreign policy. Mastering the national political factors of American Grand Strategy is of great practical significance. It can not only provide our design of Grand Strategy with some inspirations, but also help us analyze and deal with the conflicts and cooperation between the two countries correctly and properly."Those who couldn't plan for ages can not plan well for a moment; those who couldn't think things as a whole can not be good for the part."Without the insight of strategy, the nation will have no hope; without the foresight of strategy, the state will have no future. The rapidly developing China provides fertile soil for the research of the Grand Strategy, while the insightful, knowledgeable scholars in this field, the construction and research of Chinese Grand Strategy would definitely help our country herald the coming of a new era.
Keywords/Search Tags:American Grand Strategy, Domestic politics, The Bush government
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