Throughout the cold and after the cold war, American foreign policy have been solely dependent on the threats that emerged on international security, world order and its role as the guardian of the democratic values and principles. Nevertheless, Soviet Union threats and communism spread in the Eastern Europe or in the scattered countries around the globe has been the driver of the foreign policy as well as the military budgets. What is true is that America formed its foreign policy to handle the nuclear power.
As soon as the cold war put up on heat with dismantling former Soviet Union and the establishment of commonwealth of independent states (CIS), an urge to reexamine and refine the foreign policy have emerged. William Maynes in his article in forgiven affairs (America without cold war) attempts to define and examine the reasons behind America’s dependency in its foreign policy on the bi-polarity and world leaders’ rivalry. In his article, he paves the optional routes America will walk through after the end of the cold war.
The writer affirms the suggestion that the champion behind the westernization of the communist east is with not doubt the west itself. To huge extend this is …show more content…
Nonetheless, what is clear from the writer’s attempt is that he is comparing the power of weapon and threat for these possible threats to the powerful nuclear power of America, what might the writer have neglected –although he haven’t communism vs. capitalism- is the ideology has been considered through the cold war as the main threat to the national security of America and the international security as a whole. The writer hasn’t found any state that could do what soviet union have done in the forging policy of America, thus he suggest that policy makers should feel