Why Should The United States Become A Superpower?

The U.S. has a history of being bad at entangling alliances. According to George Washington, “We need to be careful of tangling alliances” (Fromkin). For this reason, the United States was dragged into WWI. America should be constantly increasing its military, but for national defense, not for policing the world (Schneider). America's national security depends on America to stop getting involved in everything and to secure its borders. If America could stop spending millions on policing other countries; the weight of this task would be shifted to a group of nations that have their governments under control.

The grand strategy of President of Bush foreign policy was to promote the spread of American democratic principles throughout the rest of the world and liberate those who are oppressed under non democratic regimes. In order to accomplish these foreign policy goals the Bush administration needed to exert a maximum display of force which was often achieved through military intervention. In the first term of President Bush administration one of the most daunting tasks faced with the implementation of the foreign policy strategy was how America could adequately address the growing

As Kelly Anderson’s Foreign Policy Analyst, the following memo will address three areas of the United States’ foreign policy. The U.S. has gone through may transition when it comes to its foreign policy. The United States has been an isolationist, neutralist, and internationalist country from the year it was founded to now. The executive branch and the president apply their power to influence and change the nation’s foreign policy. There are specific departments within the Executive Office of the President (EOP) created to assist the president in his or her process. Political context and historical events have occurred to prove why intervening with another country’s issues does not benefit the national interest and why isolationism is a better system for this country. Hopefully, the memo will accomplish informing what the foreign policy is, was, and should be.

The United States has many great threats to their security. There are people everyday who would do anything to make sure the US can no longer be the biggest world power. The United States is currently battling some pretty serious threats to their security such as: ISIS, cyber threats, climate change, and nuclear security within other states. Globalization has hugely impacted America’s position in the world because of our democracy being the world’s leading superpower and our MNC’s contributing greatly to American consumerism.

The notion that we do not need foreign policy, or that it is an antiquated concept is greatly misleading. In fact, we need a strong foreign policy now more than ever. We are living at a time when the world’s geographical divides are shrinking due to ever increasing advancements in communication, technology, trade, and a strong global economic interdependence. Even though the notion that we are somehow economically dependent upon other countries is not something new for the US, we still see a strong indifference to foreign policy. In order to understand the problems, let us take a step back and examine the history of US foreign policy.

For Kagan, implications for foreign policy are clear. The U.S. government must work to shore up on the three pillars that have made this age a golden one: politics, economics, and security. Although separate, these pillars are all related to America’s powerful world power. The first step is to get in touch reality: a liberal world order will only be supported by liberal nations. Both Americans and liberal people who benefit and support the current world order have an interest for pushing liberal reform on authoritarian nations like China. If China opened up politically then there would be a smoother transition for when the U.S. has to share its global power. Secondly, “economic policies must continue promoting international free trade and free-market regime.” This would mean that America would have to set their economy back on track. To do so, the U.S. and Europe would have to work together since they amount to more than 50 percent of the global GDP. Together they hold the most significant global influence, even in the Asian countries. Lastly, America should exercise its power on the situation, however the debate is between which types. Some have argued that hard power, or military

During the 1950’s to the present, the United State’s influence on the world as a global superpower skyrocketed. Originally Western European countries were considered the most dominant nations in the world; however, after World War 2 Europe was left in a state of turmoil, and gave way for the United States to become a global superpower. Western European countries became dependent on the U.S for military support, industrial support, and economic support in order to rebuild their nations. Eventually during the Cold War era that followed, the United States proved to be a strong and dominant nation as well by protecting and aiding Western Europe away from communistic influence, and back to a state of tranquility. Through the United State’s interaction

In the, The Unquiet Frontier, by Grygiel and Mitchell they explain how during the 21st century, the United States maintains a strategic alliance with frontier powers such as, Taiwan, Israel and Poland. Strategically, it is a strategic move for the United States to have alliances near powers like China, Iran and Russia because it prevents those states from probing and allows for the United States to maintain their presence. However, critics argue that by being allied with small insufficient states as noted by Grygiel and Mitchell, “Maintaining extensive, expensive and binding relationships with exposed and militarily weak states located near large rivals, we are told, will cause more problems than they are worth.” Even though it has always been the United States objective to intervene in small conflicts, especially with states that have democratic value to it the U.S will support it promising military aid. In addition, due to the United States relentless ability to engage in conflicted issue it has stopped the spreading of communism because the United States allied themselves with small states. Also, the United States established N.A.T.O, persevering the freedom and security of its members through political and militarily means. Furthermore, it’s through alliance like N.A.T.O that advocate for formal alliances in which challengers do not attempt to

Washington Rules emphasizes that the United States should order world politics. It is safe to say that since the Post-Cold War era; The United States is seen as the world’s superpower, and it is to a point where numerous countries expect us to protect them, and intervene in any situation that is not “right.” The US has taken a preemptive role on ordering the word and senses the need to help those who are not super powers in order to promote peace. America’s military remains unchallenged, spending around 736 billion dollars yearly. In addition, the American economy remains strong amongst the global financial system, and the United States political influence around the world remains very strong as well.

The United States of America’s economy and military is far too involved in foreign affairs. Foreign affairs are policies of a government in dealing with other countries or with activities overseas, government offices or departments. The United States has always been involved in Foreign affairs since its creation. Although foreign affairs are vital for the sake of the United States of America, the nation is becoming part of relationships and disputes that it should not be. There are many intentions of the United States Foreign Affairs. Some of the intentions are: to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and

The “Washington Rules” project of US foreign policy has managed to sustain and regenerate itself since the end of World War Two. According to the theory of “Washington Rules,” the world must be ordered by the United States and cannot be permitted to order itself. This notion is considered to be a self-mechanism; the United States has a duty and moral obligation to be the world’s policeman to the point where other nations just naturally expect us to act. Nonetheless, we sometimes forget that by following “Washington Rules,” we do not follow the limit and extend our powers. As a result, there are “blow backs” when the United States attempt to control the world; as seen by the Cuban Missile Crisis and 9/11.

The global trend of connectedness enhances incentives for international cooperation. This is an opportunity for countries to play an important role in advances in mutual security interests. The US has many advantages

Many strategies have been devised by empires over centuries, these strategies and decisions have helped shape the world as it is in its present state. The author explains how strategic decisions made in the past were the wrong decisions in his opinion, as John Perkins had seen first hand the devastation that could be caused by the American government in its pursuit for a “global empire”.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was the unquestioned hegemon of the western world acting in a unipolar world. However, recently the United States has fallen into a series of deprival causing its reputation to fall as a state. Despite this, under the Bush Doctrine, the United States currently has a preemptive hegemonic imperative policy. Under this policy, the United States takes into account that the world is a perilous environment in need of a leader to guide and to control the various rebel states unipolarly. Under this policy though, the United States acts alone with no assistance from other states or institutions. Global intuitions that would assist under other types of policies are flagrantly disregarded in this policy in spite of its emphasis on the international level. As well as not participating in international institutions, this policy states that the United States should act entirely in its own wisdom. The UN (the United Nations), GATT (General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade), along with other institutions advice is not heeded within this self-made policy. Though the United States currently acknowledges these global organizations, it no longer takes them into account with severity. Instead of acting under the international system, the United States currently acts through its military, and large economy to instill fear within the various actors in the intercontinental system. According to this philosophy the

The current international system is fragmenting rapidly since the end of the Cold War. A lot of regions in the world are still trying to find the balance of power in the international system, which the U.S. often intervenes to provide its brand of “global leadership”. Some countries like China are emerging as a global power since a few years ago. Subsequently, this will lead to a major threat to the U.S. status as a global major power. The rise of power by China in the international scene signifies the unpredictable nature of the international system. I would argue that the three most critical challenges for the U.S. arising out of this environment are the future world globalization that will cause a conflict between its domestic and foreign policy, the rise of China as a global power, and the ever globalization of terrorism. I believe that the U.S. should be pragmatic in handling its foreign policy and handle each situation independently without a fix doctrine in order to minimize the unintended consequences produced by the globalization of the world.