From Containment to Americanism

By Ellias Aghili Dehnavi and Mohammad Alizadeh Jamal

The present book examines the national security strategies of the presidents of the United States of America after World War II. The main question that has been asked in this regard is what approaches have these national security strategies had after the World War II? The present project is an analytical descriptive study done through interviews and library sources. Research shows that each of the American presidents had a national strategy in the aftermath of World War II, and in the post-World War II period, the US National Security Strategy has always had a global approach.

• Language: English
• Publisher: tredition
• Release date: May 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9783347073227

Ellias Aghili Dehnavi

Born on the 28th of January, 1996 in a family who love art, literature and history. Ellias soon found his taste in literature and especially poetry. He wrote his first limerick when was 12 years old. Later on when he was 14, books like “the peace book by Todd Parr”, “let there be peace on earth: and let it begin with me by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller” , “What does peace feel like? By Vladimir Radunsky “helped him to get familiar with the essence of peace. Reading poems by Calude Mckay , Wendell Berry and Robert Frost in that age inspired him to start writing poems in a more serious way, sonnets of Shakespeare were also good sources of inspiration for him. So when he was 16, Ellias wrote the book called: “International Poems Collection” the book got the first provincial place in the most famous competition of inventions in Iran , “Kharazmi ” and the fifth place in the country competition, yet to be the only project of its kind. This book received confirmations from the University of Isfahan and now is being preserved in the ministry of science and research and technology. Next year, Ellias with the cooperation of two hardworking and creative friends, (Hosein Heidari and Hooman Danesh) wrote another poetry booked called: A Path to Salvation. This book also won Kharazmi awards. His Excellency, Dr. Zarif, wrote a thanks letter for Ellias for the book since it includes some nice and extraordinary elements of literature, humanity, peace and international relations. Other literary academicals project he’s worked on are: “Death of Sarah Black, Explosion of apartheid and the footstep of Apartheid in Vietnam”. Ellias is going to publish another poetry collection named “Peace Poems” in the close future. He’s currently the Director manager of M.O.P academy

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From Containment to Americanism

To all of my lovely friends in Maryland and Virginia

Pamela Sinicrope‚her family and Sara Oakleaf

Preface

The present book examines the national security strategies of the presidents of the United States of America after World War II. The main question that has been asked in this regard is what approaches have these national security strategies had after the World War II? The present project is an analytical descriptive study done through interviews and library sources . Research shows that each of the American presidents had a national strategy in the aftermath of World War II, and in the post-World War II period, the US National Security Strategy has always had a global approach. An assessment of each of these strategies shows that although they have been developed and implemented in response to short-term concerns, they have also constituted some of the fundamental aspects of US foreign policy and macro-strategy; so that the next statesmen have followed its broad political goals and instructions. In other words, each of these strategies is based on previous strategies, which has led to political continuity and the benefit of the United States. In addition, it should be added that during the Trump administration, the national security strategy, due to its incompatibility with its allies and its strong priority over purely American interests, made this period noticeably different from previous periods.

Keywords: National Security Strategy, America, World War II, Cold War, Foreign Policy

1. Introduction

The United States, like any other country in its political history, has had different directions in diplomacy and foreign policy. The US National Security Strategy, which is based on the doctrines proposed by the government's intellectual and instrumental elites at the domestic and international levels, has always been and will continue to guarantee the national interests and security of this country. American citizens have witnessed various national security strategies over the past two and a half centuries. (Motahari Nia, 2005: 28-27).

World War II marked a turning point in American history and the beginning of a fundamental shift in US foreign policy toward globalization. Although World War I did not completely overshadow the doctrine of the American continents, but the new war led the irreversible diplomatic behavior of the United States to withdraw from the closed sphere of the Monroe Doctrine. The new doctrine after World War II, which with the name of President Harry of Truman, became known as the Truman National Security Strategy, no longer has the ability to administrate any limits on the implementation of the expansionist menus of US foreign policy. The study seeks to examine and explain US national security strategies in the years following the end of World War II.

2. Harry S. Truman National Security Strategy (April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953)

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States and a member of the Democratic Party. Truman, who began working as Franklin Roosevelt's deputy chief executive in 1944, took over the presidency after his sudden death. In 1948, he defeated the Republican candidate, Thomas Dieu, to become President of the United States for the second time.

The new national security strategy was based on the confrontation between the two opposing ideologies of imperialism and communism, and relied on the enormous potential of the United States during the war. In fact, World War II served as a powerful catalyst for the potential abilites of the United States to become de facto ability, so that from now on we will have to use new words to describe the United States: the superpower!

In fact, internal (internal) integration was the new and external (international) competitiveness that changed the US behavioral, strategic, and diplomatic patterns in global interactions. Upon careful study, we find that these causes and factors