Fault Lines - Echoes of the Foreign Policy of President George Walker Bush

On March the 17th, 2003, just two days prior to the commencement of the Iraq War, President Bush, in an address to the nation, declared that: “events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decisions”. During his Inaugural Address in 2005, the President made a potentially startling declaration regarding America’s foreign policy. The gathering threats posed by the war on terrorism present profound challenges to the Realist Theory of International Relations in the years ahead.