خلاصة:
Considering the fact that less systemic sensitivity has appeared towards U.S. military actions on the global scale and that the great powers in the international system do not engage in any serious effort at preventing this state، the role of domestic interest groups has increased as has the president’s attention to their opinions. Despite the fact that no serious threat to U.S. security existed and the country’s national interests were not at stake، Barack Obama ordered the use of military force against Muammar Gaddafi. Liberal humanists in the power structure played a crucial role in order to make the necessity of attack inevitable by aggrandizing the threat. By embracing the opinion expressed by the liberal humanists and repeating this aggrandizing for election purposes as well as for preserving his own liberal base، Barack Obama found a military attack on Libya rational and necessary.
ملخص الجهاز:
S. military actions on the global scale and that the great powers in the international system do not engage in any serious effort at preventing this state, the role of domestic interest groups has increased as has the president’s attention to their opinions.
Given the performance of the great powers in the system, the United States currently pays further attention to its domestic considerations in shaping its global actions, since it faces reduced international pressure as compared to the preceding decades.
II- Systemic Considerations and Reduced Fear The fact that the United States looks at the possible costs of failure in its policies with fewer concerns and that it expects less serious negative practical responses to its decisions on part of the great powers in the international system have provided the country with huge latitude in designing policies and how to implement them.
This gave American leaders the chance to gain the authorization for military strikes by aggrandizing the threat and elevating a civil war in Libya to a humanitarian issue without any concern for the reaction of the great powers.
With Barack Obama’s coming to power and his emphasis on multilateralism, resetting relations with Moscow, considering the theory of new and old Europe as meaningless, and putting less stress on the dilemma of human rights in relations with China, international space became so soft that liberal humanists within the executive power – and particularly in the National Security Council and at the civil society level - found a more salient chance to express themselves and to influence the shaping of foreign policy.