American Exceptionalism Under The Obama Administration

and there is still a continuation of U.S. interventionalist policies abroad, it is justifiable to conduct a similar study and explore military interventionalist justifications on President Obama. This study is aimed at answering the question of whether American exceptionalism is a key tenet in the foreign policy developed by the Obama administration. The general research question is: Is American exceptionalism still a justification for invading other countries under the Obama Administration?
Literature Review: American exceptionalism has been a prevailing theme in describing American foreign policy since Alexis de Tocqueville came from France to study the U.S. in 1831 and wrote “Democracy in America.” It describes the U.S. as a distinctively free country founded on democratic principles and individual liberty, with an emphasis on the U.S. being given a …show more content…
Once one unravels what American exceptionalism truly encompasses, one can see spreading liberal democracy and freedom are the main components of American exceptionalism. This political rhetoric shaped a foreign policy based on the conviction that to spread American democracy was both justifiable and foreseeable (Santos and Teixeira 2013 page 153). There is a history of the U.S. using American exceptionalism as a proper justification for enacting its interventionalist foreign policies.
In Maria Helena De Castros Santos and Ulysses Tavares Teixeira’s (2013) qualitative and quantitative study, they analyze the political rhetoric in President Bush’s speeches in regards to foreign policy tactics in Afghanistan and Iraq and that a credible justification for the invasion

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