Geopolitics of US

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Geopolitics of US
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Directions and problematic

• Military and security perception
• Economical perception
• Political perception

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In Middle East
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• Controversy about clash of civilizations
• The model of democracy is only western ?
• Is it a form of imperialism ?
• In the name of security ?

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Two goals
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The big middle east project

• 22 countries from Arab league
• From Pakistan to Mauritania
• Political and economical interest
• Mistrust from EU
• Reaction from Arab league

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• Pakistan , Saudi Arabia, Libya
• Iran and US precaution
• Syria and US Position of Syria
• Failure of building the new big middle east

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In South east Asia Counter and control

• Counter Hegemony of China
• Control on Malacca as a strategic road
• Counter Islamism like in Malaysia
• Importance of the role of ASEAN

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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan

• In the 19th century Afghanistan was a strategic
  position between Russia and UK concurrency
• Regarding the position of Afghanistan near
  China and Iran
• Control the opium policy
• Control UNOCAL
• Using the drug weapon against Russia

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• Ambiguous attitude against Al Qaida (US creation
  in the 80s to weaken USSR)
• To weaken Russia and China about gas. To cut the
  gas provided by Russia to China
• To break cooperation between Russia and China