What was the impact of the end of the Cold War on US foreign policy thinking?

Humanitarian interventions on the other hand were rare . The end of the cold war however brought another face of America . United States began initiating moves aimed as spearheading human rights campaigns as well as contributing greatly to humanitarian interventions . An example is in Iraq where it successfully brought to a halt Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Iraq . It also initiated a similar intervention in Somalis though with disastrous repercussions when US marines were butchered by Somali Clansmen . The United States also reinstalled President Jean Berthand Aristide of Haiti after a Military

Coup in 1994 . This was a radical departure from a precedent set by Ronald Reagan who had stated that the United States should not commit its forces overseas unless its national interests was at stake . The Clinton administration also responded to Bosnia to pre-empt a Serbian annihilation in 1995 . This is despite the fact that the conflict had been going on since the Second World War and well into the cold war The immediate post cold war era was characterized by such humanitarian intervention although the United States has been largely criticized for its inaction towards stopping the genocide that went on unabated in Rwanda . President after president in the post cold war era has vowed to devote United States efforts towards humanitarian missions (Palmowski J , 2004

In addition to humanitarian missions , the cold war era triggered a spate of the United States push for human rights reforms across the world with those states that were considered to have a respect for human rights looked at more favourably . Although this became more pronounced after the end of the cold war , the society too had a role to play . The public in the United States plays a crucial role in policy formation and implementation . The process of foreign policy formulators...