Geopolitics, Grand Strategy and the Bush Doctrine
Geopolitics is about the largest scale geographical specification of political matters. Geopolitical reasoning provides the spatial framings within which grand strategy is constructed. The Bush doctrine, elaborated in response to the events of September 11th 2001 and its formulation of a “Global War...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-823242020-11-01T08:42:27Z Geopolitics, Grand Strategy and the Bush Doctrine Dalby, Simon S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science Geopolitics is about the largest scale geographical specification of political matters. Geopolitical reasoning provides the spatial framings within which grand strategy is constructed. The Bush doctrine, elaborated in response to the events of September 11th 2001 and its formulation of a “Global War on Terror” draws heavily on antecedent formulations from both the first Bush administration and the Project for a New American Century. But in doing so it both misconstrues the nature of the events of September 11th and attempts a grand strategy that is flawed. It is flawed both because of its failure to understand the geography of terror and, given the Bush administration’s flat denials that America is an empire, a reluctance to learn lessons from imperial history and adopt appropriate strategies and force structures to accomplish its ostensible goals. 2016-01-29T03:54:37Z 2019-12-06T14:53:20Z 2016-01-29T03:54:37Z 2019-12-06T14:53:20Z 2005 Working Paper Dalby, S. (2005). Geopolitics, Grand Strategy and the Bush Doctrine. (RSIS Working Paper, No. 090). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82324 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39833 en RSIS Working Papers, 090-05 Nanyang Technological University 31 p. application/pdf |
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Geopolitics is about the largest scale geographical specification of political matters. Geopolitical reasoning provides the spatial framings within which grand strategy is constructed. The Bush doctrine, elaborated in response to the events of September 11th 2001 and its formulation of a “Global War on Terror” draws heavily on antecedent formulations from both the first Bush administration and the Project for a New American Century. But in doing so it both misconstrues the nature of the events of September 11th and attempts a grand strategy that is flawed. It is flawed both because of its failure to understand the geography of terror and, given the Bush administration’s flat denials that America is an empire, a reluctance to learn lessons from imperial history and adopt appropriate strategies and force structures to accomplish its ostensible goals. |
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