POST-IRAQ WAR WORLD ORDER: AMERICAN SCRIPT, PAX ROMANA OR PAX BRITTANICA?

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1. Introduction 2. Domestic Imperatives of American Foreign Policy 3. The End of Cold War and American March towards Supremacy 4. Faces of Internationalism: US Foreign Policy Beliefs 5. Uncertain and Indifferent Public Opinion behind Foreign Policy 6. America towards UnilateraIism or Multilateralism? 7. Democratic Within and Imperial Abroad 8. Unilateralism in Practice: Supremacy of the US, not the United Nations 9. Preaching Democracy and Human Rights: Chimerical 10. Move to Redefine National Interest in New Planetary Terms 11. New World Order and the US Strategy: Some Propositions 12. Conclusion

POST-IRAQ WAR WORLD ORDER: AMERICAN SCRIPT, PAX ROMANA OR PAX BRITTANICA?

Author: Narottam Gaan

DOI Link: DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2004v25n3a1

ABSTRACT

The end of the Cold War and the disintegration of former Soviet Union raised new hopes and vision about a new world to be based on more democratisation of the prevailing political and economic order, justice, equity, and judgment of issues on the basis of merit in a dispassionate and objective way quite unfamiliar with the Cold War_ Such hopes soon disappeared with the US rising from embers of Cold War with new vigour and strength to enact its own script of world order. The very prophecy about the emergence of a multipolar world or a multilateral approach to international crisis did not come true as America launched an attack on Iraq in 1991 under a fa~ade of UN backing. Fears were raised about the emergence of a multipolar world. But when America launched the second attack on Iraq in 2003 on the pretext of disarming Iraq of its alleged weapons of mass destruction in the face of stiff opposition from almost all quarters of the world including the Security Council, the final denouement of a unipolar world was enacted. America's avowed determination to promote democracy and its own version of economic order in countries ruled by undemocratic and authoritarian regimes by military means has drawn vitriolic attacks from critics and raised a debate on whether America is likely to play a more interventionist role in the prevailing and future international scenario.

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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