American Foreign Policy In The 20th Century

America can be seen to be the custodian of international history for the majority of the 20th century playing an important role in practically all key international crisis and events from the First world war to Bosnia. An international event could not be considered major unless the US were involved ( Mckay. 2013, p422) The end of the Cold and the fall of the soviet union 1991 marked for many the end of history as such: as Fukyuama describes it “ , the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government’ (Fukuyama, 1989, p. 4). The result of this global jostling for dominance. Was the emergence of the US as the sole super power or a global leviathan esque figure on the international
The inner cities can be seen to have particular benefited with a 10% decrease in poverty ratings across all major cities in the USs (Daswani, 2017) this major economic growth can be seen directly resultant of a passive foreign policy. The argument was simply that in 20th century that American had given enough. The lack of external pressure on the US at first seemed daunting yet truly blossomed into meaningful foreign policy with clear direction as well as numerous home benefits for example “Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.” ( White, 2014). Clinton can be seen to have ushered in a new wave of compassionate and carefully deliberated foreign policy , the main manifestations of this were shown in the Kosovo where the US used economic, military, and diplomatic leverages occupy the “the position of a potent “challenger” that worked on consolidating its position in order to be influential and powerful when and if necessary”(Zafarian