Intellectual context of United States foreign Policy toward political Islam

Abstract

Foreign policy of any country of the world is moving according to a particular approach, it represent a framework that governs movement and push them towards achieving their goals. This framework is tantamount to intellectual reference to those countries, the United States like other countries with reference behavior and determines paths and methods to achieve their objectives, conduct of foreign affairs. Observers of US foreign policy since the events of September 11 2001, will note that there is a growing debate about the policy toward political Islam (movements or parties), and on the classification of these movements or parties. It varied between putting all Islamic movements and events in the same status, and the distinction between them, while I went the viewpoint of a third out that there is a possibility of convergence whatever the formula (alliance, coexistence) between the United States and the Islamic movements and parties in the Arab and Islamic countries. This debate and the multiplicity of visions and viewpoints regarding political Islam as well as other issues that have made American foreign policy are subject to a formulation, and direction, and goals, in large part to the influence of American religious and political right currents, which escalated influence in American politics, both directly and through the participation of a number of leaders in the US administration between the period (2000 - 2008), or indirectly through strategic theses provided by think tanks and institutions of research, as well as through anti campaigns adopted by these currents within the United States and abroad, which was revealing, for the fact that attitudes America, formal and informal, of political Islam.