U.S. Negotiations with Rogue States during the Early Portion of the Twenty-First Century
Journal Title: Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Over the past five years, Barack Obama has made various decisions that have been described as historic. During 2010, he signed The Affordable Care Act, which was designed to provide every U.S. citizen with health insurance. Three years after this piece of legislation was approved, Obama took a step on the international level that caught the attention of numerous people. For approximately thirty-four years, there was no direct communication between the leaders of Iran and the United States. However, in September 2013, Obama elected to have a conversation over the telephone with Hassan Rouhani, the newly elected President of this rogue state. Following this discussion, diplomats from the U.S. and other Western states met with Iranian representatives on multiple occasions in locations such as Geneva. In the early portion of 2014, these negotiators managed to reach a diplomatic agreement. This was not the first time in the twenty-first century that the United States supported an agreement with a rogue state. When George W. Bush came into office in 2001, Libya was considered to be a rogue state by most people in the United States. It did not begin to acquire a more respectable reputation until Bush had his subordinates agree to pacts with Libyan representatives. Bush and Obama both backed deals with rogue states, but there is an important difference between these two leaders that deserves to be mentioned. Obama was not determined to hold a rogue state accountable for all of its prior misconduct. Bush, in contrast, insisted that a state should be held accountable for every transgression that it committed in the past. It will be possible for the reader to notice this distinction if the Libyan and Iranian cases are looked at more closely in subsequent sections.
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Jason Cooley
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