National Sovereignty, Oppressive Government, and the US Role in the Wor

National Sovereignty, Oppressive Government, and the US Role in the World Introduction The American attack against Afghanistan that was triggered by the September 11th tragedy erst again raised the question of US role in the world. The current array intervention also touched the issue of the major factors, defining the eat of US inter issue policy. In the globalized world today the ratio of soft baron (the ability to attract through cultural and ideological appeal) to hard power (a countrys economic and military ability to buy and coerce) used in solving international conflicts is constantly increasing (Nye 2). However, military campaigns still give a way out of deepening international crises. Should America, then, engage in indiscriminate humanitarian interventions, advancing its ideas of democracy, human rights and liberty, or should it be militarily touch only with international affairs that have a direct bearing on US vital national interests? In my paper I sugge st that the US violation of a countrys sovereignty should come only after a careful consideration and deep investigation of the reasons tail end an international conflict. Moreover, all interventions should be based on specific achievable end-goals and strategies. Also, US military campaigns rationale should suit Americas vital national self-interest, as I define it later. Several reasons support such an international policy First, in the farseeing run the negative effects of a military international intervention, even if against oppressive governments, could actually outweigh the positive ones. Moreover, coercive policy could, in fact, aggravate a conflict by providing grounds for long lasting hostility, aggression, or ev... ...osnia and Kosovo. The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies v. 25,( 2000) p. 489-510Nye, Joseph S. Jr., Redefining the National interest. Foreign affairs, (July/August 1999) p. 22+Rule, James B., On evils abroad and Americas raw world ord er. Dissent v. 46, no3 (1999) p. 50 57Smith, Tony, Morality and the use of force in a unipolar world the Wilsonian moment?. Eyhics and International Affairs v. 14, (2000) p. 11-22 http//www.cceia.org/lib_volume14.htmlTarzi, Shah M., The threat of the use of force in American post-cold war policy in the Third World. Journal of Third World Studies v. 18, no1, (2001) p. 39-64 The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost knowledge Project