The Persian Gulf War and its aftermath
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Essay from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,00, University of Regensburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar US Foreign Policy, language: English, abstract: With the End of the Cold War, the world should become safer. But instead of amore peaceful decade, the years following the Fall of the Berlin Wall werecharacterized by the same issues as before, like international terrorism or theendangered environment. More dangerously, new, more alarming problems emerged,such as nuclear capability of rogue states and exc...
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,00, University of Regensburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar US Foreign Policy, language: English, abstract: With the End of the Cold War, the world should become safer. But instead of amore peaceful decade, the years following the Fall of the Berlin Wall werecharacterized by the same issues as before, like international terrorism or theendangered environment. More dangerously, new, more alarming problems emerged,such as nuclear capability of rogue states and exceedingly brutal local rivalries, wherethe most powerful nations of the world were seemingly helpless and sometimesexperienced a nightmare, like the UN mission in Somalia. The first crisis in the Post-Cold War Era was the Persian Gulf War, where for the first time the U.S. Presidentwas able to act without paying too much attention to Russia. On the other side, he wasaware of the need of consultation with other states. So Bush was wise enough to avoidthe same mistakes other American presidents had done before him, e.g. LyndonJohnson in the Vietnam War. Attention shall be given not only to the war`s aftermath,neccessity and success but also to its significance for U.S. foreign policy at thebeginning of the Post-Cold War Era.[...]
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