TITLE

Grand Strategy in the Second Term

AUTHOR(S)

Gaddis, John Lewis

PUB. DATE

January 2005

SOURCE

Foreign Affairs;Jan/Feb2005, Vol. 84 Issue 1, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

This article anticipates likely aspects of United States president George W. Bush's second term. George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The narrowest gap between Bush's intentions and his accomplishments has to do with preventing another major attack on the United States. Of course, one could occur at any moment, even between the completion of this article and its publication. But the fact that more than three years have passed without such an attack is significant. What takes place during the second Bush term in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and especially the Israeli-Palestinian relationship may well be as significant for the future of the Middle East as what occurs in Iraq. The Bush administration intended that a demonstrated capacity for retaliation, pre-emption, and/or prevention in Afghanistan and Iraq would convince al Qaeda that the United States could not be run out of the Middle East.

ACCESSION #

15496765

Tags: BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-;  INTERNATIONAL relations;  IRAQ War, 2003-2011;  STRATEGY;  COUNTERTERRORISM;  UNITED States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009

 

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