Does Bush understand World politics?

Answer 1

Bush would fail 4th grade math, 5th grade literature, 6th grade geography...you get the message...
SO without the basics, he has no ability to understand World Politics. Does he care about WordPolitics, no! Why should he care if he cannot comprehend. If he only understood, he would be doing things a lot differently.

To understand Worl Politics, you have to R E A D...not sure he does that very often. Right now there are some interesting books and I wonder if he even knows about them:

Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq
edited by Francis Fukuyama

Great Powers and Geopolitical Change
Jakub J. Grygiel

Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe
Zachary Shore

I am cutting and pasting a course in world politics for the YAHOOERS to see what an understanding would entail. Please read each course and ask yurself if younthink GW has in fact garnished any understanding at all:

World Politics

PP400: World Politics (Kugler)
This core seminar is designed to provide a broad survey of competing perspectives on international relations. It will evaluate and contrast major approaches to international politics in decision making, confrontation, deterrence, and political economy. The advantages and disadvantages of various perspectives are addressed. Problems associated with studying behavior from multiple levels of analysis (e.g., individual, group, and nation-state, systemic) are stressed.

PP403: Political Risk Analysis (Snider)
Political risk refers to the type and intensity of political hazard that the presence or operation of a government, organization or firm in a foreign country or region may sustain in pursuit of its goals. Students will perform an in-depth analysis of a complex situation. The resulting product should serve as a central element of the student's portfolio in a non-academic job search. (PP471 is recommended prior to taking PP403)

PP404: Political Geography (Staff)
This seminar explores the effects of geography upon politics and of politics upon geography. Using the techniques and understanding imported by the study of geography--physical and human--this course seeks to illuminate the relationship between politics and the physical environment amongst which politics is carried on.

PP405: International Law (Staff)
This course examines the development, major approaches, methods and substantive issues of international law.

PP407: International Organization (Staff)
In an anarchic world of sovereign states, how can nations come together and cooperate in issue areas of common interest? The course draws on structural theories, cognitive theories, game theoretic approaches, functional theories, and theories of bargaining and negotiation which address the dilemma of international cooperation.

PP408: Seminar in World Politics (Kugler)
This seminar is designed to be a capstone for students interested in World Politics. It is assumed that students are familiar with major approaches to the field and have a working knowledge of methods and models used in the field. Students will produce a completed paper sufficiently advanced to be considered for submission to a professional journal or provide an outline that could be used as the core of a thesis or dissertation.

PP409: Special Topics in World Politics (Staff)

SPE410: Foundations of Political Economy (Borcherding)

PP411: Advanced International Political Economy (Feng)
This course offers an introduction to major theories and topics in international political economy for graduate students. It is intended to help graduate students begin to think about how to contribute to the current research frontier in IPE. Readings in the seminar will be a sample of both classics and recent articles on a number of topics across the spectrum of IPE. (PP481 and 482 required prerequisite).

PP412: Political Economics of International Integration (Feng)
This course systematically discusses the political and economic mechanisms of regional and international integration. Such mechanisms include international trade, capital flows, labor migration, domestic political transformation, and international organization, among others. The class consists of a series of lectures on political and economic theories as well as case studies.

PP413: Political Economy and Corporate Policy (Staff)

PP417: International Transactions & Integration (Feng)

PP418: Seminar in International Political Economy (Kugler/Feng)
(PP481 and 482 required prerequisite)

PP419: Special Topics in International Political Economy (Staff)

PP420: Foreign & Defense Policy (Snider)
This seminar straddles the sub-fields of defense and foreign policy, world politics and international political economy. The course and readings are organized along three policy "dimensions:" Strategy, Force Structure and Economy which are set against challenges from the systemic environment.

PP421: American Foreign Policy (Snider)
This course examines the U.S. policies of the cold war, massive retaliation, nuclear arms, flexible response, the issues of the Cuban missile crisis, Realpolitik, détente, human rights, the shift from idealism to ideology under Reagan, north-south issues, and other contemporary foreign-policy problems.

PP422: Foreign Policy in Other Regions (Staff)

PP426: Diplomacy and Military Power (Staff)

PP430: Perspective on Conflict and Peace (Kugler)
This class will review current theories of international and domestic conflict including proposals that lead to their resolution. In the first half of the class students will cover alternate perspectives for the initiation, escalation, diffusion and settlement of conflicts. In the second half the discussion will center on papers that propose extensions or new innovative approaches to the field. This course assumes familiarity with basic approaches to the field.

PP438: Seminar in Foreign & Defense Policy (Snider)
This course introduces the student to the elements of defense policy - the political objectives which military force will be used to support - that confront great and small powers alike. The general focus is on the problems of reconciling strategic, doctrinal, and force-structuring imperatives with domestic political and budgetary constraints.

PP439: Special Topics in Foreign & Defense

Answer 2

I work with people from many different countries and have been overseas some. Most of what they "know" about America is what they see in the syndicated TV shows that Hollywood sells them and what they see on the Clinton News Network (CNN). Of course they think that all of America, other than the Oil companies, hates President Bush and cannot understand how he ever got into office. I just recently had this very conversation with a person from Ireland. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and their affiliates go beyond airing dirty laundry -- they try to make things seem much worse than they are so they can get their agendas pushed through via the American electorate and world opinion. Oftentimes it is shameless. One of the reasons the radical Muslims hate America is because they believe we are the devil himself and that is largely based on what they think goes on in American, based on TV shows and movies. Have you actually looked at and thought about any of the Bin Laden speeches? It is not that they hate Republicans -- they hate Americans. They see killing Americans as making the world a better place. Just as Iran had no respect for Jimmy Carter and probably would have killed our hostages back in 1979 & 1980 if Ronald Reagan had not been elected President, the radical Muslims are foaming at the mouth thinking that Hillary or Nancy may be our next president. Did you see they way they were celebrating today because the Democrats did so well in the elections? Having gone to other countries, I can tell you America is best place to live in the world even with all of its problems. I just hope its steady decline in morals and apathy does not bring it down as other great societies have done in the past like Greece & Rome. We need to stop watching so much TV, begin thinking for ourselves and start having some national pride rather than always putting the bad mouth on our country every time something doesn't go our way!!! God bless America!

Answer 3

Bush doesn't understand anything, let alone world politics. He shoots from the hip without thinking and worries about the consequences later. A person such as this is an extremely dangerous individual.

Answer 4

In my personal opinion, I think he has a bad group of ad visors and American foreign policy needs to be changed and no more Henry Ki singer for advice. Iraq is not Vietnam and we have different issue and mentality of the enemies. Let's behave as such Middle man not the big police man. However,American needs to stand behind the plight of Palestine and stop the crisis in middle East. No more trouble with Iran and try to negotiate with North Korean. It is about time we learn our lesson in politics.

Answer 5

NO!
Bush is in his own little world. Too bad the bubble is about to burst.

Answer 6

the world is a mess thanks in large part to the dumb son of ,bush Sr. if you remember in the debates before bush Jr's 1 st term he was ask about who was in charge in Pakistan, he said KING ... HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT A PRESIDENT RAN THE COUNTRY ..he knew nothing of ,or could care less about world affairs before 9/11

Answer 7

Absolutely NOT....he is known as a forgein policy president....yet he has failed miserably at diplomacy. bush understands NOTHING!

Answer 8

No. He thinks he is the only one with the answers.
In reality, he is out of step with the world. Look at the Polls.

Answer 9

Bush understands it perfectly...you obviously don't though.

Answer 10

George W Hitler's understanding of world politics is very sharp, but it is completely tainted by his ideology and shady business ethics. He is prepared to sacrifice the lives of Americans to fatten the family checkbook.