US Liberal Foreign Policy Hegemony, A
Realist View
Remaking the World in America's Image
from
The Great Delusion a talk by
John
Mearsheimer
Source
21st Century Geopolitical Options
Index
Dimensions Benefits Enablers
Formation
Policy Failures: Past Failures
Failure in Ukraine
A Failed
Hegemony
Dimensions define goals
1. Promote a US look-alike world of liberal democracies.
2. Embed states, especially Russia and China, in the US international order created after WW 2. to fight the Cold War.
Hook them on capitalism and international dependency.
3. Embed into WTO, IMF, WB. NATO
Benefits were
perceived
1.Worldwide
inalienable human rights enhanced by increased liberal democracies.
2.Inhanced world peace expounded by
Democratic peace theory which states Democracies do
not quarrel.
3. More stability for continuing Liberal democracies.
Enablers allowed development
1.
A Transitional World
From a Post WW 2 Bipolar World requiring a balance of
power
to a US led Unipolar World beginning in the 1990's and
expanding toward a Multi-polar managed by US, Russia, and China
2. A Superpower Unipolar World Leader, the US, was a highly ideological crusader nation.
3. Excess optimism was
generated by both historical and recent events.
Defeated Fascism
Defeated Communism
Drove Taliban out of Afghanistan leaving a functioning Karzia
led democratic government
Iraq War
Policy Failures of the Foreign Policy Liberal Hegemony
1. Middle East
Bush Doctrine failed
to turn into a
Liberal Democracies with increased peace and human rights.
2. NATO and EU expansion into Eastern Europe continually annoyed Russia
causing her to begin military
activities to stop expansion into Georgia (2008) and
Ukraine (2014 -2022)
3. Moving China toward liberal democracy failed.
China did follow the plan and did indeed grow economically, but human rights changed little and leader Xi JinPing
began reinforcing
Communist ideology.
