The Role of Seccurity Issues and Human Rights in the Post- Cold-War Foreign Policy of the United Stats

During the Cold War the American government applied both hard power & soft one in competition with the Soviet Union and Communism. Considering the end of the Cold War and the rise of some soft threats, the U.S will face the need to revise its national interests and focus on soft power to overcome. In the other perspective, in an age of globalization the security issues from hard elements (realism approach) change to soft ones (liberalism approach) such as human rights, democracy and environments. Thus in this paper studies the security issues from hardware and software perspectives and adopst this issue on the U.S foreign policy especially its strategies regarding human rights during the Cold War and after 9/11 attacks.