EISENHOWER’DAN OBAMA’YA: ABD DIŞ POLİTİKASINDA ORTADOĞU VE SURİYE

ABD Başkanı Barack Obama döneminde ABD dış politikasında Ortadoğu ve özellikle Suriyehakkında yapılan tartışmalar, 1953-1961 senesinde ABD Başkanı olan Dwight Eisenhower döneminde yapılantartışmaları anımsatmaktadır. Obama’nın birkaç konuşmasında Eisenhower’ın sözlerine de atıfta bulunması,ABD’deki bazı uzman ve gazeteciler tarafından Obama’nın dış politika yaklaşımı açısından Eisenhower’abenzediği yorumlarının yapılmasına neden olmuştur. Bu çalışma, hem Eisenhower hem de Obamadönemlerinde Ortadoğu’da ayaklanma ve devrimlerin olduğu ortak gerçekliğinden hareket ederek, iki başkanınOrtadoğu ve özellikle de Suriye özelindeki yaklaşımlarının kıyaslanmasını hedeflemekte, var olan yorumlaraakademik bir boyut kazandırma gayreti taşımaktadır.

From Eisenhower to Obama: The Middle East and Syria in the US Foreign Policy

The debates held in the US foreign policy on the Middle East and particularly on Syria during the presidency of Barack Obama are reminiscent of the debates held in the period between 1953-1961, when Dwight Eisenhower was the US president. The fact of Obama having referred to Eisenhower in some of his statements led indeed some specialists and journalists in the American political circles to comment on the resemblance of Obama’s foreign policy to Eisenhower’s. This article, which departs from the historical reality that President Eisenhower and President Obama witnessed uprisings and revolutions in the Middle East, aims to compare both Presidents’ approaches to the Middle East in general and to Syria in particular, as well as to provide an academic dimension to the already existing comments on them.

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