U.s. "humanitarian Intervention" In The Post-cold War Research

In the field of foreign policy, America always has the interventionist tradition. After the Cold War, with the total collapse of the Soviet Union system of the bipolar pattern, as the world's only superpower, in order to secure the leading position in the world to build the unipolar American-led "new world order" quickly, U.S. foreign interference has a significant change in behavior. The United States named it "humanitarian intervention", using of economic, military, cultural and other means to increase outside interference. Although America's "humanitarian intervention" has an aspect of protecting human rights, reflects more of its interests in the global penetration and strategic expansion of its foreign strategy after the Cold War by a new form of expression. Based on U.S. "humanitarian intervention" performance at the core of its causes, methods and characteristics are analyzed and discussed.This paper from both at home and aboard factors to analyze deep-seated reasons of the United States after the Cold War practice of "humanitarian intervention", including the collapse of the international system, bipolar structure, regional conflicts, human rights, the widespread interest and increasing U.S. power, interventionist tradition and domestic public opinion, promoting the catalytic role of Congress. Focused on several cases of U.S. "humanitarian intervention" in depth study of its hidden interests and hegemony reasons, then the object for the intervention, intervention methods and means of it, to uncover its characteristics, finally, the article link the issue of the Libyan crisis since February 2011. And international efforts'response to analyze the United States in the crisis reflected the "humanitarian intervention" in the new trend.