The Historical and Theoretical Principles of US foreign policy

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Nasser Khorshidi ¹ , Mohammad yousefi joybari ²

1 - MA.International Diplomacy and Organizations at School for International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2 - Assistant Professor of Political Science Department of Islamic Azad University-Tabriz

Received: 2017-11-11 Accepted : 2018-01-07 Published : 2018-10-30

Keywords: Internationalism, Rights based approaches, Political based approaches, : Isolationism,

Abstract :

The United States has experienced two period of difference completely in the arena of Foreign Policy. Since its independence in 1776 to April 1917, the logic of Isolationism was dominant upon the Foreign Policy of this country. This long period of Isolationism can be divided into Isolationism restricted in the frame of US borders and also continental isolationism that dominated US diplomatic system by James Munroe since 1823. The second period in the US Foreign Policy inclined towards that has been continuing since 1917. Our goal in this research is to historical and also identify theoretical foundations of this tradition, that is, internationalism in the US Foreign Policy. In this sense, it seems that the internationalism tradition in this countrys Foreign Policy is nurturing through two main and at the same time confronting currents in international relations namely Rights based and Political based approaches. According to the nature of research, the method Historical - analytical and scope of research includes to United States.