Barack Obama and Donald Trump: An analysis of the domestic level in the United States Foreign Policy Towards Iran (2009-2018)
Barack Obama and Donald Trump: an analysis of the domestic level in the United States Foreign Policy Towards Iran (2009-2018)
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https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2317-773X.2019v7n3p7-27Keywords:
Foreign Policy Analysis, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Neoconservatism, IranAbstract
The present paper aims at analyzing and explaining the differences in the United States foreign policy conduct towards Iran in the governments of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. In order to do so, the paper rests on the empirical analysis of both governments. Beyond this, useful concepts of the disciplines of Foreign Policy Analysis and Political Science will be utilized as well. The study will demonstrate that the limits imposed to Obama’s foreign policy come from domestic pressures of interest groups. Important elites, mainly those with connections with the neoconservative vision of United States politics, at the same time that constrained Obama’s action on the international system, are constitutive of the political basis and the Republican Party, that enables Trump’s foreign policy. The ruptures put forward by Trump, can be understood through the analysis of these groups, fact that is shown in the case of Iran.
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