American Social Changes and Its Impact on American Foreign Policy after 11th of September Events: Middle Class as a case study

Abstract

The events of eleventh of September 2001 have made a crucial turning point in the ideology and performance of U.S. foreign policy. Yet, some consider it a new (Westphalia), which established new patterns of international interactions. The most prominent, so far, is the war in Afghanistan 2001, the aggression on Iraq in 2003, and the war on the so-called terrorism, and its consequences on the international level. What happened was the precursor to the political behavior associated with this transition. Moreover, these events have a great influence on the structure of the American society, mainly on the middle class who has an important role in the American society because of its potential capabilities that enabled it to create a national authority, beyond religions, tribes and sects. Yet, these events which struck America at the heart, and led America to use certain polices full with doubt, suspicion, harassment, exclusion and detention, that affect the American society in general and let it to search for new forms like nationalist and sectarian grasps, a matter which may lead this great empire to erosion and fall. This research is an attempt to explore the role of the middle class and its importance for the cohesion and strength of American society, after the great quake that hits even American national loyalty.