- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- United States' foreign policy toward the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan: 1990-2014, 2016
- Creator:
- Al Sarhan, Atallah
- Date of Original:
- 2010/2019
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study provides an analysis of the United States foreign policy toward the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 1990-2014. This period has witnessed four different American Presidents: the Republicans, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and the Democrats, Bill Clinton and Barack H. Obama. Republicans and Democrats have both maintained relatively close relations with Jordan. This study concluded that the most important factors that shaped the United States foreign policy toward Jordan are the geopolitical location, ideology, moderate regime, regional security dimension, and Arab-Israeli peace process. This study explores the signing of The Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty of October 26, 1994, which markedly enhanced US-Jordan bilateral relations to unprecedented levels. The United States foreign aid, Qualifying Industrial Zones, and the US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement have dramatically boosted the Jordanian economy and modernized its military weapon systems. This study found that the primary concern of the United States foreign policy in the Middle East is securing strategic access to oil in the Gulf region, supporting and protecting Israels sovereignty, maintaining the United States military bases, particularly in the Gulf states, defending client-states and friendly regimes, and resisting Islamic movements and terrorist groups. KEY TERMS: Foreign Policy, United States' Foreign Policy, American Foreign Policy, Jordan's Foreign Policy, US-Jordan relations, Foreign Relations, Middle East Politics, American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Science, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Date of award: 5/1/2016
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Granting institution: Clark Atlanta University
Department: Political Science
Advisor: Gibrill, Hashim T.
Advisor: Dejanes, Robert B.
Advisor: Shafiei, Fatemeh - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2016_al_sarhan_atallah
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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