The Bush Doctrine: A Search for Global Hegemonic Stability?

The pattern of distribution of power has a crucial impact on the international system. After the Cold War, the USA, as a sole superpower in the international system, tried to pursue its current position in the context of a strategy that is conceptualized as benign hegemony. This paper analyzes the theoretical bases of the transition of American foreign & security policy from benign hegemony to global hegemonic stability search efforts, In this extent, systemic power components which enable the pursuit of a unipolar structure of international system is of guest great importance for the USA. In the context of the arguments of democratic peace theory & preventive war been that have been employed by the USA for a war against terrorism, impacts of its unilateral actions on relations with significant international actors such as Russia, the EU & China & implications for international normative order will be analyzed respectively. References. Adapted from the source document.