After The Cold War The United States Foreign Intervention Study

Foreign intervention is a kind of mandatory behavior and this mandatory behavior is taken by one country or some countries to another country or area in the case of not be agreed. Foreign intervention is not only a common phenomenon but also an international issue in dispute at contemporary international society. All of above, it is American foreign intervention that subjects much concern and discussion. The U.S. has a long history of foreign intervention. At the post cold world, America carries out positive foreign intervention policy with resort to its unapproachable national power and international standing. The "axis of evil", the countries which support terrorism, the "failed countries" and so on are main objects of American foreign intervention. It’s showed that economic sanctions and military intervention are two common means, although the U.S. is able to use multiple methods to intervene. At the post cold world there are internal causes and external causes have effect on American foreign intervention. The Protestantism ideology, the individualism and the liberalism are thought factors of the internal cause, and also the national interest and power of America. The external causes include the country that be intervened by America and international politic and economic. American national security strategy was influenced deeply by the Event of 9.11, so was the policy of American foreign intervention. In this situation, combating terrorism becomes a first important issue of the U.S. foreign intervention. Above all, the U.S. foreign intervention policy and practice serve an objective of trying to be leader of world. In fact, this objective possesses attributes of Hegemonism and Power Politics.