Essays about: "bush doctrine"
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1. The Obama doctrine - a multipolar foreign policy.
University essay from Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Abstract : This paper will clarify the debate surrounding contemporary American foreign policy, and it seeks to bring awareness to the vast field surrounding the topic. This essay is a case study, and it focuses mainly on the Obama doctrine, it does also shed light to the former foreign policy of the Bush administration. READ MORE
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2. The Legality of Anticipatory Self-Defence in International Law
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The Caroline Case with its principles of necessity, proportionality and immediacy is alleged to be part of customary international law consider anticipatory self-defence, but a closer examination views that it can not be, mostly because of States are not convinced that it is the correct behaviour. Even if Article 51 of the UN Charter has been expanded to include acts of terrorism as armed attacks, it still does not give the right for States to act in self-defence when there is a mere threat of force. READ MORE
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3. Second generation neoconservatism: on the weekly standard from its inception to the second death of neoconservatism
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : Neoconservatism developed in the context of liberal anti-communism from the 1940s. The key intellectuals of this early period of neoconservatism, centred around Irving Kristol, occupied themselves with issues such as the threat of communism, anti-Americanism at home, adversary culture and the problems of social engineering. READ MORE
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4. The War on Terror - A Study of the Use of Military Force against the Contemporary Terror Threat
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The ''war on terror'' is very much a topic of the day. The main threat against the western society is said to no longer be armies controlled by belligerent states but non state actors, which by means of new technology have the potential of launching large scale attacks equivalent to attacks carried out by states. READ MORE
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5. The Bush Doctrine - a carte blanche for a war on the world?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The events on September 11, 2001, changed the view for many regarding the use of force. The US immediately engaged in a war against terrorism, and in an attempt to win this war and protect American citizens, President Bush and his administration used all means necessary. Thus, the Bush Doctrine came to be. READ MORE
