Us Foreign Policy

After the Cold War ended we saw new policies popping up left and right, the early 1990’s were a very important time for U.S. foreign policy, the country took on a new role around the world as something like a global police force. While the Soviet Union was disbanded, Russia was still a state not to be taken lightly, they were still a very powerful and resourceful country, and the U.S. was still one of the strongest states in the world, and in turn forced our foreign policy of containment to be unneeded at this time in history, so changes were proposed and made. “In 1991- the last year of the Cold War- American firms produced $5.6 trillion in goods and services, or 26 percent of the world’s output.”(Hook & Spanier, 173)

Economically the nation

After the cold war ended, it seemed to be a very peaceful time between the major powers in the world, but what we did see was the U.S. and the U.N. stepping in situations where a person of power was using that power to commit acts of violence or terrorism against a group of people, for example in Somalia in 1993, and the first Gulf War. Some people believe, that the U.S. has gets militarily involved in to many other countries, but we also believe that looking out for the victim is the right thing to do. So I pose the question; what other policies are the reasons for U.S. military involvement in foreign countries, and why has the US become what seems to be the global police force? This research is important because

The start of the mission the U.S. military was there helping the UN with peace keeping and Humanitarian aid to the country, both of these things being big things in US foreign policy, but as time went on, President Clinton knew something needed to be down and a mission snatch General Aidid’s top military leaders was put in place, even though on paper this mission was a success, this is the known as the “Blackhawk down” mission; where 19 soldiers were killed, dozens wounded, and Pilot Mike Durant was captured. This is another example of going in with the intention of preforming one policy and it changing to another, to achieve goals. In my opinion it seems that when the US gets involved somewhere abroad its for aid of the people, and it turns into military force because talking couldn’t get as far as the military might of the