before the attacks Key role in negotiation to restore the peace Ex Oslo Agreement 1993 signing ceremony in the White House Ex NATO forces in Bosnia 1994 and Kosovo 1999 ID: 603875
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The situation before the attacks:Key role in negotiation to restore the peaceEx: Oslo Agreement, 1993; signing ceremony in the White HouseEx: NATO forces in Bosnia (1994), and Kosovo (1999)American economy still powerful, but suffers from global competition (trade balance in deficit; creditor = China)BUT, soft power; innovation center; attractive country (migrants)
B) 2001 : the end of the "American century" ?Slide2
9/11 and its impact on American foreign policyText studyUnilateralist policy is explicitNew slogan « America first »Ex: War in Iraq, 2003. First preventive war (no aggression, suspicion of WMDs) launched without UN approval and against the judgment of allies such as Germany, France and Canada« War
on Terror » = new crusade; the US is the leader; world considered
by US
foreign
policy
as
divided
in
two
(Good vs.
Evil
; « us » vs. «
t
hem
»)Slide3
Cartoon by Dary Cagle, september 17, 2001Advertisement for the future aircraft carrier ‘George Bush’ (launched 2006)Slide4
A degraded moral authorityPatriot Act, october 2001 (limits civil liberties and right to privacy; enemy combattant statute)Guantanamo prison (Cuba) and harsh living conditions for inmatesPhotographs depicting inhumane and degrading treatments in the Abou Ghraib prisonForms of torture allowed to CIA operatives
Relocation of suspects in countries without human rights protection
Anti-Americanism
in the world
Ex: Chavez, 2006,
branded
Bush « the
Devil
» in
a
speech in fro
nt of the UN