سياست خارجي آمريكا در قبال سوريه بعد از 11 سپتامبر

u.s. Foreign Policy towards Syria after September 11th

The September 11 th 2001 terrorist events gave nse to a fundamental change in international politics particularly in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. In this way, the discourse governing U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration was directed at changing regime and behavior of the so-called rogue states. In this relation, Iran along with Iraq and North Korea were introduced as axis of evil and other states like Syria and Saudi Arabia 1)"~ca111e subject to U.S. regime change policy. Because of such important factors as sponsorship of terrorism, involvement in Iraqi unrest, efforts at destabilizing Lebanon and so on, Syria was targeted by American nco-cons. This paper seeks to answer the question what are critical and tension-mongering factors between the United States and Syria, and given those factors what has been U.S. foreign policy towards Syria after September J Ith 200 I? The article tests the hypothesis that U.s. foreign policy after September 11th can be evaluated as limited cooperation, hostility and confrontation (regime change) and finally change in Syrian behavior.