An Analytical-comparative Study on American Coalition-making after Cold War

A new American strategy after the cold war is coalition-making,which has replaced other American foreign policy strategies because of changes made in the nature of international system. Using this strategy, USA tries to cooperate with other states, which usually have the secondary role in implementing American foreign policy, in order to justify legitimacy and acceptability of her own unilateral measures. Hence, coalition-making in the American foreign policy has replaced getting permit from Security Council in legitimizing using compulsion against other countries. This strategy has been so far applied in three American wars against Iraq (1990), Afghanistan (2001), and Iraq (2003). In these three coalition-makings, USA has tried to obtain a permit from Security Council for attacking these countries by using transformations in international system, then conducting military attack on those countries being against the American order in a coalition with several allied countries. Nevertheless, these three coalitions differ from each other both formally and essentially. This paper focuses on their differences. Therefore, this paper tries to comparatively and analytically study the American coalition-making strategy after the cold war, appraising the nature of probable coalition against Islamic Republic of Iran.