出刊年月/Date of Publishing

1992.09

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第22卷第3期 Vol. 22, No. 3

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
從危機處裡分析布希總統的波斯灣戰爭決策
President George Bush’s Persian Gulf Crisis Management Policy

作者/Author
林正義 Cheng-Yi Lin

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 23-65

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Abstract
Scholars differ as to the principles and techniques of crisis management. However, most agree that negotiation mediation, non­military pressure, non-violent military maneuvers, and violence are five major components of crisis management technique.

For President Bush, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait constituted a challenge to U.S. national interests in the post-Cold War era. Bush used at least three options to defuse the crisis. After economic sanctions had failed to compell President Saddam Hussein to yield, a U.N. resolution was obtained that empowered the U.S. to use all necessary means to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait. The diplomatic approach was adopted only after U. N. security Council Resolution 678 was available to Washington. The Baker-Aziz talks in Geneva turned out to be futile because neither side would put itself in the shoes of the other. Saddam’s underestimation of the Americans’ will to fight was a critical factor of Desert Storm.

The 100-hour land war demonstrated President Bush’s restraint in not expanding his goal to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. However, there has been controversy over whether President Bush stopped the war too early. The second U.S. Military strike against Iraq in January 1993 to a certain extent proved that Bush had not wholly solved the problems that caused the Persian Gulf Crisis in 1990.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.7015/JEAS.199209.0023

學門分類/Subject
政治學 Political Science