U.S. Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan and turning to East Asia; Transition to Coercive Hegemony

Following Obama and Trump̕s strategy, Biden̕s government considered the withdrawal of America from Afghanistan as one of the priorities of its foreign policy and it quickly withdrew the country military forces from Afghanistan by September 2021. The purpose of this article is to examine the global strategy of America in leaving Afghanistan and the strategic turning to East Asia. This article answers the question with a descriptive-analytical method; why did America end its twenty-year military presence in Afghanistan after bearing huge financial and military costs? In response to the mentioned question, this hypothesis has been proposed that »powerful economic and military rise of China in the shadow of transferring the responsibility of global security to the United States has raised an unprecedented threat against the perceived global hegemony of the United States and the desirable international order of this country; Therefore, according to American decision-makers, the withdrawal of this country's military forces from Afghanistan is a strategic opportunity to turn to East Asia and create a new alliance in the Asia-Pacific region in order to control the threat of China«. The main finding of the research is that, in order to maintain its hegemonic position against the threat of China, the United States has put a strategy of coercive hegemony in its international agenda, with a focus on East Asia, by dividing the huge burden of responsibility for global security among its allies. The method of data collection is archive-based research using specialized magazines and reliable internet sources.