The College of Political Science at the University of Baghdad discussed the master’s thesis entitled “The American National Security Strategy towards the Asia-Pacific region after 2009 and its future prospects” by the student “Kawthar Younis Rashid”.
The thesis made it clear that American national security is linked to ensuring the safety of the United States of America from internal and external threats, indicating the ability to secure the internal and external environment from actual and potential dangers, and this gave American decision-makers room to move between its goals and means in a more extensive way in achieving its national security, as it gives a real guarantee for the continuity of US hegemony, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, as this region is considered one of the vital and important regions in the US strategic perception, especially after 2009, which is characterized by major shifts in the balance of power as well as geopolitical, geoeconomic and security shifts and their impact on shaping the structure of the international system and competing with US hegemony by China. It constitutes a threat to US national security, and this forced the United States of America to modernize, develop, and intensify its network of military alliances and security and economic arrangements with the countries of the region, with the aim of making the policy of containing Chinese challenges succeeds, resolving strategic competition, and reshaping the region to serve its security and geopolitical interests targeting all countries in this region. This territory. .
At the end of the viva, the researcher was awarded a master’s degree with high “very good” wishing all our students success in their academic and practical lives .
