| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 政治學研究所 === 97 === The terrorists’ attack of September 11, 2001 has completely changed the U.S. foreign policy which had been decided after the Cold War. In January 2002, President Bush delivered The State of the Union Address: not only has the United States been threatened by terrorists, but also the peace of the whole world has been shaken, America has the right to fight against the terrorism under attract. The United States attacking Iraq without the permission of the UN is the summit of the anti-terrorism policy of March 20, 2003.
The theory of realism in the international relationship shows that: the existence of a nation is to pursue the greatest advantages, which are expressed in powers. All of the actions of the U.S. foreign policy are for strengthening, expanding, even for showing its powers.
After 9/11, the United States invaded Iraq without thinking of avoiding being attacked. We cannot help considering the significant foreign policies are transforming? The foreign policy processes are according for the interests or the ideology? Was all the actions taken by the U.S. after 9/11 are really for the nation’s benefits? Is the ideology or value also playing a key role in the process of policy
making? The purpose of this article is to prove that ideology dominate the principles of foreign policies, demonstrating that a nation should not make policies due to the pursuit of powers, which is the result of the U.S.’s military actions against Iraq.
If ideology was a force to construct the foreign policies, then the Neoconservatism was a power of Bush’s foreign policy. Being an ideology, the Neoconservatism directly affected the decision. The study will review U.S. foreign policy decisions processes, and explain how the influence of Neoconservatism influenced by the decision
makers, the governments, the public opinions, the think tanks and the media in 1997 from 2004.
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