How does Obama’s speech repudiate the National Security Strategy?

National Security and the Islamic World

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Introduction

In September 2002, one year after the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration released a document called the National Security Strategy. It outlined a fundamental shift in American foreign policy.  The National Security strategy announced that the United States must maintain an overwhelming preponderance of military power, not allowing any other country to challenge its overall strength or its dominance in any region of the world. To replace the Cold War doctrine of deterrence, which assumed that the certainty of retaliation would prevent the attacks on the United States and its allies, the document announced new foreign policy principle –preemptive war. If the United States believes that a nation posed a possible future threat to its security, it had the right to attack before such a threat materialized.

In the wake of the American invasion of Iraq, respect for the United States sank to a low ebb in the Islamic World. In June 2009, President Obama traveled to Egypt to deliver a speech aimed at repairing American relations with the world’s one billion Muslims, severely damaged by the war and the sense that many Americans identified all Muslims with the actions of a few terrorists. Entitled “A New Beginning,” it acknowledged past American misdeeds and promised to respect Islamic traditions and values rather than trying to impose American ideas on the Muslim world. But he also reminded his audience of the importance of principles like democracy or equal opportunity for women, widely denied by Islamic governments the Middle East. How to promote these values without being seen as an outside power seeking to impose its will on others would remain a challenge for the Obama Administration and its successors.

 

Read the attached documents and answer the following questions:

  1. How does Obama’s speech repudiate the National Security Strategy?  In other words, what does the National Security Strategy say, and how does Obama reverse some of these claims?  Be sure to cite specific examples from each document.
Which reaction would you prefer from your nation’s leader?  Why?

Read the attached documents and answer the following questions (you also have the option to watch the speeches, linked here):

  1. Examine the reactions to attacks on the United States by George W. Bush after 9/11 and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair after the 2005 London Bombings. Imagine yourself as a citizen who has just woken up to news of these attacks (both events happened in the morning hours).  Keep in mind that Bush responded in the evening after the morning attacks with a prepared statement, while Blair responded unprepared within minutes of hearing the news.  Which reaction would you prefer from your nation’s leader?  Why?

911 Speech.docx  Download 911 Speech.docx  –  9/11 Speech Video (Links to an external site.)

London Bombings Speech.docx  Download London Bombings Speech.docx  –  London Bombings Video

Comparing the U.S. and Germany, how much of a difference is there now between the Christian democratic and liberal welfare state models?

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2. What values underlie German’s Christian democratic welfare state, and do these seem to have changed fundamentally in the last decade? 3. What does the U.S. reform effort suggest about which type of social policy is most efficient at reducing poverty? 4. Comparing the U.S. and Germany, how much of a difference is there now between the Christian democratic and liberal welfare state models?

What does the history of reforms to the German welfare state teach us about the debate over the effects of globalization on social policy?

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Read the case studies on the U.S. (starts page 560) and Germany (starts page 558) relating to welfare. Then, answer the following questions in depth. 1. What does the history of reforms to the German welfare state teach us about the debate over the effects of globalization on social policy? Is the hyperglobalization thesis correct, or do national distinctions still matter? 2. What values underlie German’s Christian democratic welfare state, and do these seem to have changed fundamentally in the last decade?

Suggest three static and three dynamic exercises which will help to improve core strength and stability, and two key muscles worked on in each case.

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Please Note: A satisfactory response is required for all questions, showing a full understanding of the Underpinning Knowledge outlined on the student guidelines.