英文摘要 |
With the end of the Cold War, the configuration of one superpower and several great powers has been matured and the hegemonic position of the U.S. is free from any regional challenge. The 911 incident, happened right after 7 months since President Bush assumed the office, shattered the belief that the homeland of the U.S. would never be attacked and drove the security focus to the homeland defense. President Bush's address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York on June 1, 2002 gives notice of what will become the Bush doctrine- a ''preemptive'' strategy of going after terrorists and the regimes that support them before they attack, not waiting to be attacked. This becomes formalized in September 2002 with publication of his administration's U.S. National Security Strategy, which not only makes the case for preemption, but also for the importance of maintaining American military superiority and a willingness to engage in unilateral action, if necessary. This article departs from three core objectives of U.S. national security strategy, applies then the realist paradigm, neoliberalism, and democratic peace theory to interpret the meaning of national security strategy, and indicates the potential tendency of the development of U.S. national security strategy in the post Cold War period by combining the analysis of core objectives of national security strategy from the periods of President Clinton to Bush. |