Chapter 7
What Next?
American Foreign Policy and the 2004 US Elections
An American Viewpoint
Daniel Sneider
The re-election of George W Bush as President of the United States marks a branching [out] point in the evolution of American foreign policy. It provides a popular, though narrow, endorsement of the policies pursued by the Bush administration since the Al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. It gives the administration a mandate, though not an unlimited one, to extend and deepen a shift in American policy away from its traditional Cold War-era internationalist roots.
The Bush administration faces numerous challenges and difficult choices immediately in its second term—first fashioning a stable and positive outcome to the invasion and ...
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