OBAMA Y EL REALISMO INTERNACIONAL

The United States foreign policies starting from Barack Obama’s administration: The way the world sees America.

From the Realistic Theory.

WHAT IS REALISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS?

This doctrine holds that the social contract is given within states, society is subordinated to the upper body and gives the ability to mediate and reconcile interests. So each state outward represents a particular and individual social pact. The lack of a greater social pact, ie a supranational body, states act in their own interest always trying to ensure their safety at any cost and within an anarchic international society, as Thomas Hobbes argued who also described International Relations as a state of war of all against all.

From this state-centric vision comes a new idea known as neorealism, mainly described by Kenneth Waltz, where neorealist explain power relations giving priority to the structure of the international system. Waltz also says that international society is that which is already established from human nature itself states can not do anything to change it just to keep up.

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO OUR TOPIC

Now that Barack Obama won the elections again in the United States, we see a more determined president will seek a place in history. There is no possibility of thinking in other reelections, therefore, should focus on doing the best for his country. And what makes the United States will always have consequences in the world.

The international situation that the world seems to pose some challenges for U.S. foreign policy, therefore, in the next four years, many decisions-delayed-action could be taken and many-expected-could be implemented, which further move tabs of this game in which we play.

For one, the U.S. foreign policy is governed by basic principles will always remain, as free-market economy, the promotion of human rights, defense of Israel or the dissemination of Western values, and will be the basis to establish its overall objectives as collective security, the fight against terrorism, promote multilateralism and American leadership in the world.

The challenges for U.S. foreign policy for the coming years are many. On one side are resurgent powers like China and Russia, the emerging powers seeking greater involvement as India and Brazil, the strengthening of autocracies in many states, the development of nuclear activities in countries like Iran and North Korea, the failed states are often haven for terrorists and the states that do not profess Western values such as many Muslim countries.

Against this backdrop, what is the foreign policy guidelines that will take the United States? It should be made clear that international politics is the only field in which the U.S. Constitution gives the president almost absolute powers, except to declare war. Many of these powers granted the executive are based on the National Security Strategy presented in September 2002 following the attacks of 11-S by President Bush. And though the latest security strategy 2010 correcting the unilateral position of the U.S. (although there are exceptions), have not yet been repealed enforcement actions as wiretapping pretext of ensuring national security.

So, let’s make a review of some of the certain stages the United States are available to act, some of the international spaces United States influence is clearly seen:

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