Ryzhkov M. The Doctrinal Dimension of the US Foreign Policy Strategies: From Deterrence to Global Democratization

The dissertation provides a political examination and actualization of international and political doctrines and strategies of the USA since 1947 when the country ultimately repudiated the isolationist course in peacetime. The author's description of such concepts as "basic," "major," and "operational" US foreign policy strategies have been offered. The author has presented his standpoint on the methodology of international and political research and streamlining the study of great powers' foreign policy. The triune scientific problem has been solved, namely: basic goals and implementation mechanisms of principal US foreign policy - deterrence and global democratization, have been systematized; an integral account of their doctrinal provision, and the nature of interaction between the American expert community and the state-political establishment have been presented. Employing the historic-comparative and normative methods, the author displays and demonstrates the positive and destructive ramifications of the implementation of the post-war US administrations' foreign policy for the human civilization, for the state of international relations as well as for the development of individual countries and regions on the planet, exposes critical discrepancies between provisions of the relevant instruments of the US foreign policy and its practical manifestations, specifies the essence of the current and major strategies, reveals the causes for the persistent application of the deterrence doctrine provisions after the Truman administration, establishes the cause-effect relations between the implementation of the US external policy strategies and new phenomena in international system, suggests the forecast of the realization of the goals set therein in terms of potential consequences for the world-system of the use of principles of the hegemonic stability theory.