Abstract
For almost 55 years, following the end of Second World War and the beginning of the cold war, U.S. foreign policy rested on the concepts of “deterrence and containment”. With the end of the Cold War and subsequent disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States emerged as the world's only superpower. Nevertheless, during the administrations of Presidents Bush senior and Bill Clinton, U.S. foreign policy continued to rely on concepts of both deterrence and containment. After the trauma of 9/11-(whose real culprits are still shrouded in mystery) America redefined its foreign policy and articulated its national security strategy name plated as “Bush Doctrine” or “Strategy of Preemption”. The Doctrine called for offensive operations, including preemptive wars, against terrorists and their abettors, against the regimes that had sponsored, encouraged, or merely tolerated any "terrorist group of global reach." Afghanistan and the Taliban Government was the first victim of the new doctrine. Amongst the “Axis of Evil”, regime change in Iraq was given preference over remainders and Iran and North Korea are meriting future attention by the perpetuators of the doctrine.
Mr Qadar Bakhsh Baloch. (2006) PRE-EMPTION AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE , The Dialogue, Volume 1, Issue 2.
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