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Continuation In Us Foreign Policy: An Offensive Realist Perspective, Bledar Prifti
Continuation In Us Foreign Policy: An Offensive Realist Perspective, Bledar Prifti
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation is a study of US foreign policy that aims at maintaining its regional hegemonic status and preventing the emergence of another regional hegemon by implementing the offshore balancing strategy. US intervention during the 2003 Iraq War, strained US-Iran relationship, and the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in early 2014 compel a reevaluation of US foreign policy. Two major claims of this dissertation include: (1) US foreign policy is consistent with offensive realist theoretical claims; and (2) US foreign policy is characterized by continuity when it comes to issues related to America's strategic …