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Comparison of security policy of the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and Germany

  Security policy of the USA, Great Britain, France, and Germany. Factors of security policy: geographical abilities, geographical environment, geo-political situation and historical traditions of the country, strategy culture, self-definition and relative power of the country, global and regional security environment. Changes of security policy after lltn September 2001 in New York. The author after examining the security policy of the USA, Great Britain, France, and Germany states that there are considerable differences in the security policy of the USA and their European partners, allies that evidently showed up during the war against Iraq. One of the very important reasons of the differences can be found in historical experience and in the events after the Second World War. The USA neither had to face direct threat from the side of strong neighbours, nor the country’s domestic and security policy had to count with considerable enemy in its direct geo-political environment. Consequently, the American strategy culture is much more “free” – comparing it with the European. The new direction of the USA’s security policy after the terrorist attack on 11th September 2001 in New York and later after the Iraq war can be viewed as the reaction of the only... continue reading →