International Studies Journal (ISJ)

International Studies Journal (ISJ)

The Vital Center and Unipolar Models: The Trend and Challenges of both Liberalism and Neoconservatism

Document Type : Extension Article

Author
Assistant Professor of Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in Allameh Tabatabee University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Two different ideas in general were dominating the United States foreign policy. The nature of the independent states system along side with the approach that has been adopted by U.S.A, has established this ideas. The experience of growing up of communism and the Soviet utopia along with identification of official liberalism to endure power has been reshaped by the hope of the "Vital Center" mode. Arthur Schlesinger, saw the intellectual framework of American politics in terms of this model. And also Charles Krauthammer is a defender of the "Unipolar World" and has articulated the new type of an American foreign policy, in this way.
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