The Realist Approach To The Bush Administration

The foreign policy that President Barrack Obama reflects in his administration is shown by the realist approach that tackles difficult issues. How can we address this problem in such a way that will be beneficial to the international community and importantly the interests of the United States? During the presidency of George W. Bush, the foreign policy of the U.S. mainly focused on the spread of democracy to regions that were considered in need of that type of political system. “Under President Barrack Obama, U.S. foreign policy has swung decisively in the opposite direction” (Nau).
“But even more than interests, we’re bound by shared values. In each other’s journey we see reflections of our own. Colonists who broke free from empires. Pioneers

“He reacts to what history serves up and sees the world as a complex system in which everything is interconnected. Problems have to be addressed comprehensively, or, like squeezing a balloon, progress in one area will only distort progress in others” (Nau). This type of understanding can be connected to the Bush administration, when we as a nation decide to suppress the threat terrorism that originated out of the Middle East. The issue of the rise of Islamic terrorists in the Middle East can be viewed as failed policy by both administrations. First, the initial start of the war in the Middle East and the removal of Suddam Hussein from power caused voids that allowed terror groups to enter the society. Second, the premature exiting of U.S. ground troops after the election of the current President without the previsions needed to control the

Others respond that Obama has no foreign policy strategy at all that he is simply making it up as he goes along” (Dueck).The question that is difficult to ask is if Obama is a supporter of realism or does he take an idealist stance to the world issues. With an interview with Vox, a United States media outlet, the president answers whether he is a realist or idealist. His response was on the lines of how we do not have military solutions for every problem in the 21th century, and these problems consist of the disorder that the world described. The outbreak of Ebola, the threat from ISIS a radical Islamic terrorist group that came to onto the global scene as the US was leaving Afghanistan, the issue of cybersecurity attacks from other nations or individual groups. The President realizes that the world is ever changing and we as a nation cannot rely on the rules and agreements that have been in place in the world since the end of World War 2 in