Government George W. Bush (2001-2004): geopolitical analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

• Grant number: 12/50419-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira
• Grantee: Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this work is to achieve a geopolitical analysis of the military operations undertaken in the first mandate of George Walker Bush government immediately after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. It is understood that the strategies adopted in those events were a result of the document defense planning guidance by pentagon in 1992, right after the end of the cold war. The hypothesis we intend to defend is that the geopolitical formulations that orientate the Truman doctrine. In the period of the cold war are present in this document and were maintained as guides for action plans during all the decade of 90, and used as analytical tools in the great strategy of George Walker Bush government. ln order to demonstrate this hypothesis, first of all we performed the redemption of the geopolitical thought of Halford J. Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman, followed by connections of the strategical existing ideas in several documents which were in effect in the decade of 90 and we finally verified how those ideas could be implemented in operation enduring freedom in the Afghanistan war in 2001; and Operation lraq Freedom in the war of lraq in 2003. The used methodology was a research in primary sources sustained by original documents of The United States of America government and in the bibliographic literature of the basilar work by Halford J. Mackinder, Nicholas J. Spykman and Zbigniew Brzezinski for a critical analysis of the theoretical geopolitical models. (AU)