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Essays on American Foreign Policy
This section contains six essays on American foreign policy. They were written in the early 1990s while pursuing an MA degree.
The Failure to Notice
Iran’s Islamic Revolution The policy of containing the Soviet Union and reducing its influence throughout the world colored the thinking of the U.S. foreign policymakers. This policy did not only produce an arms race between the two (…)The Camp David Accords Had everything worked according to plan, US foreign policy toward the Middle East would have produced “The Geneva Accords”[1] rather than the Camp David Accords; and instead of a bilateral peace treaty, it would have (…)
The Camp David Accords-Cold War It was suggested in my previous essay that the Camp David Accords were not the original goal of the American foreign policy toward the Middle East during President Carter’s administration. The objective was a (…)
The Imbalance of Power
Kissinger’s Diplomacy Henry Kissinger writes more than 800 pages to argue that an international system based on balance of power is a better system for conducting foreign policy and serving national interests. He supports his argument (…)USA-USSR Post-WW II Planning This essay would examine the American assumptions about the future of the world after the end of the Second World War, and explain why the Soviet war aims appeared to have threatened these assumptions before 1945. It (…)
American Isolationism: a Myth? To be able to determine to what extent isolation was a decisive force in dictating the direction of the U.S. foreign policy or merely a myth, one should shed some light on the concept of isolation, including a brief (…)
