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This chapter incorporates a comparative case study analysis of the Bush Doctrine in an attempt to test the claim whether it represents continuity in US foreign policy toward the Middle East. In doing so, it analyzes the policy that led to the 2003 Iraq war because of its overall impact on US foreign policy toward the region. Focusing on the strategic aspect of the policy, not on the managerial one , this chapter also analyzes whether there was a change in US geostrategic objectives and the strategies it implemented to achieve those objectives. The study finds that there is no change in the geostrategic objective to prevent the emergence of a rival regional power and the grand strategy of offshore balancing used to achieve the objective.
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Prifti, B. (2017). The Bush Doctrine in the Middle East: A New American Century. In: US Foreign Policy in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45327-9_4
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