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US FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS OIL APPETITE IN WEST ASIA: A CASE STUDY OF IRAN, IRAQ AND SAUDI ARABIA SINCE COLD WAR

    1 Author(s):  PRAMOD KUMAR

Vol -  6, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 249 - 261  (2015 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

For most of the 20th century and now into the 21st, the U.S. has had global interests and a global reach to match. Though its foreign policy has a phenomenal impact of various events in the world and this can be seen in the West Asia, a region of recurring instability and enormous strategic importance. Hence it has been a vital area of U.S. foreign policy since the early decades of the Cold War in which U.S. has made itself a key player by using its diplomatic, economic, and military power in support of its national interests. During the cold war it was competing with its ideological rival i.e. Soviet Union. However, this is always expected in America’s global policy of containment of Soviet Union, the West Asia petroleum reserves have always been one of the major reasons for U.S. interest. The end of the cold war left the US alone superpower as the Soviet Union disintegrated.

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