Beyond the War on Terror: Advisors and Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific during the George W. Bush Administration

Gallagher, Matthew (2022) Beyond the War on Terror: Advisors and Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific during the George W. Bush Administration. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

The George W. Bush administration has often been viewed ostensibly through the lens of the War on Terror, Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the administration made a significant positive impact on the Indo-Pacific region, creating policies that had long lasting repercussions for US security. This thesis aims to address this gap in two main ways. Firstly, by using the policies of China, India and North Korea policy the thesis draws attention to three important and underappreciated areas of Bush’s foreign policy. Secondly, it applies a new approach to understanding the role policy makers affect the development of US foreign policy by assessing how the changes in the US foreign policy decision-making power balance impact the development of policy. By using personal interviews, primary documents and secondary analysis this thesis argues that the changes between the three periods (the first term before 9/11, the first term after 9/11 and the second term) resulted in shifting foreign policy outcomes that were responsive to the rise and fall of different groups of adviser’s influences, demonstrating the utility of a foreign policy analysis approach to understanding US foreign policy.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User:	Nicola Veasy
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2023 13:41
Last Modified:	28 Jun 2023 13:41
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92525
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