George H. W. Bush (Bush 41)

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George H. W. Bush (Bush 41)
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Eastern Europe 1989
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October 1990
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Bush Foreign Policy Positions

• US Ambassador to the UN
• Chief of US Liaison Mission to China
• Director of Central Intelligence

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Threats to the US after the Cold War?

• Somalia

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• Haiti

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Yugoslavia 1991
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• Bosnia 1991
• (map reference)

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Bushs Dilemma

• What does a realist do in an era of peace
• Think like a realist
• Or an Idealist

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Iraq-Kuwait 1990
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Saddam Hussein
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Halabja, 1988
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Bush as Idealist Collective Security and the UN

• UNSC Resolution 660 (8/2/90)
• UNSC Resolution 678 (11/29/90)
• New World Order speech (9/11/90)

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The War Ends

• Elimination of Iraqi WMD
• International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA
• UN Special Commission -- UNSCOM

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Idealism?

• But
• Economic issues
• Multilateralism
• Realism

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Realism Iraq as a Buffer
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Idealism?

• Somali clans

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Bush Valedictory Speech

• When should the US intervene?
• It Depends
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