Abstract
George W. Bush became president of the United States on 7 November 2000. He was the leader of the Republican Party which is a right-wing party based on traditionalism and deregulated free trade and corporations. George W. Bush accession to power was widely criticized during the United States presidential election of 2000. Indeed, some ballots had disappeared in Florida, where Jeb Bush, G.W. Bush's brother, was governor. Then, George W. Bush's presidency was contested. But the American Congress validated the votes and he became president. George W. Bush belongs to those politicians who advocate neo-liberalism. Besides, he is a neo-conservative, thus his policy was strongly turned towards foreign policy and aimed at intensifying the United States military capacity and increasing its global hegemony.
The American foreign policy had always been linked to the power of the army. The latter allowed them to take advantage of resources in many countries all over the world. After World War II, the United States destabilized several countries throughout the world, especially in Latin America and in Middle East, and in other parts of the world from the 1950's to nowadays. Moreover, from the 1970's to the 1980's, a transition occurred in the international economy. The assertion of neo-liberalism can be dated to the 1979 coup when the Federal Reserve decided to increase interest rates to unprecedented levels since World War II. Thus, capitalist owners and their financial institutions restored their position and incomes, diminished since the Great Depression, and, to an even larger extent, since the crisis of the 1970s. A new course of capitalism was established. Also, in the 1980's, when Reagan was president of the United States, he widely promoted this policy called neo-liberalism which aimed at increasing the American corporations' interests. G.W. Bush and his advisers mostly followed the same path developed earlier by the previous American presidents.
Indeed, the content of the American policy being to create a world where free trade can benefit to the American corporations, it is always accompanied by American military in case this policy is contested by foreign countries and if they try to become independent from them and nationalize their wealth. But the form to achieve this mean can change according to the global context in the world, the Cold War being finished and the attack on 11 September 2001 being the first attack on the American soil during G.W. Bush presidency. In this way, did G.W. Bush foreign policy represent an historic departure from traditional U.S. foreign policy?
