Bush’s Anti-Terrorist Security Strategies and the Challenges: A Lesson from Iraq
Author: Wen-sheng Chen
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This paper aims to examine George W. Bush’s anti-terrorist security strategiesin his first term through Iraq case, thereby to envisage the challenges to his secondterm. U.S. grand strategy and the strategies of preemption and regime change wereevaluated. In particular, the research indicats that the U.S. war against Iraq in 2003has refuted some arguments of the offensive realist John J. Mearsheimer. Thisarticle shows that the challenges to Bush administration are as follows: 1) Withrespect to grand strategy, the Bush administration has to struggle for power withother major powers and to cooperate with them to counter terrorism at the sametime; 2) the preemptive strategy not only reflects the arrogance of U.S. hegemony,but also serves as a catalyst for anti-Americanism and terrorism; 3) the strategy ofregime change both infringes state sovereignty and produces the more and more“little Osama bin Laden” with hatred against US.