Transcript Geopolitics of US

Directions and problematic
 Military and security perception
 Economical perception
 Political perception
In Middle East
Bring democracy
Internationalism
Wilson
Bush doctrine
Imperialism ?
Put middle east
into dependency
Clash of
civilizations ?
 Controversy about clash of civilizations
 The model of democracy is only western ?
 Is it a form of imperialism ?
 In the name of security ?
Building a
big middle
east
Bring
democracy ?
Iraq
Afghanistan
Iran
Two goals
Pragmatic
Ideology
• Interest in economy
• Interest in security
• Bring democracy through two
“test” Countries
• unilateralism
• Afghanistan, Iraq
• Domino effect
The big middle east project
• 22 countries from Arab league
• From Pakistan to Mauritania
• Political and economical interest
• Mistrust from EU
• Reaction from Arab league
• Pakistan , Saudi Arabia, Libya
• Iran and US : precaution
• Syria and US : Position of Syria
• Failure of building the new big middle east
In South east Asia : Counter and
control
 Counter Hegemony of China
 Control on Malacca as a strategic road
 Counter Islamism like in Malaysia
 Importance of the role of ASEAN
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
 In the 19th century Afghanistan was a strategic
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position between Russia and UK concurrency
Regarding the position of Afghanistan : near
China and Iran
Control the opium policy
Control UNOCAL
Using the drug weapon against Russia
 Ambiguous attitude against Al Qaida (US creation
in the 80’s to weaken USSR)
 To weaken Russia and China about gas. To cut the
gas provided by Russia to China
 To break cooperation between Russia and China