U.S. Crisis Management in Geopolitical Regions

Document Type : Original Article

Author

- Associate Professor of Political Science, Tehran University, Iran

Abstract


The United States can be considered as a country that enjoys strong motivation, different instruments, effective structural position to play the security and political role in critical fields. This country has started to play security role in Middle East since the World War 2. Many of U.S presidents had organized their regional policies based on confrontation with the Soviet Union.
The U.S role has become especially significant since the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union could have made a safer atmosphere for the U.S to control regional conflicts on the basis of crisis management. But the U.S interventions have led to an increase of security complications in Middle East which has an effective geopolitical role in world politics.
The U.S crisis management model is based on confrontational indexes rather than diplomatic process and balancing model. The United States’ goal of crisis management in M.E can not be considered to be providing equilibrium and stability. Americans prefer to apply the engagement method and this has led to more instability and conflicts in M.E.

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