America passively dealing with global developments

MOSTAFA GHORBANI

TEHRAN (Basirat): developments in the international system is a subject that theorists of global system like Immanuel Wallerstein believe that has started from The 1980s. However, with this assumption, it is natural that the heads of the current order, specially the United States of America, oppose against the change and simply will not allow to change the current order in a direction contrary to their interests and their hegemony. In other words, since the order of international relations has designed to maintain and strengthen the hegemony of the established powers like US and even been theorized for this purpose, it is natural that they oppose against any change in this order, which means their interests, hegemony and domination is ignored. Therefore, with this assumption that America and the major powers appose to change the existing order of world, the basic question is that how will be their behavioral model while the international order is changing?

Based on systematic analysis, the major powers and the heads of them, if see chaos in system which eventually can lead to change system, will resist and attempt to maintain the current order by any way. In other words, in terms of increasing entropy, major powers are confused and cannot identify their priorities carefully. Therefore, they take actions to restore the order while such actions rather than be effective, are disruptive and raise the chaos degree of system.

Accordingly, in a meta – analysis about America’s policies in recent years, it must be said that America’s policies in the international arena suggests to the inability of this country in maintaining his hegemony and domination on the world and therefore, in many cases, for maintaining his desire systemic order and in other words for restoring the past order, take actions not only doesn’t maintain past order, even accelerate the developments in the international system for collapsing of the existing order. For example we can refer to failure of America‘s policies in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq crisis. In all of them America has failed to succeed and has become merely a fringe player. More specifically it must be said that with successful policy of Russia to developments in Ukraine and its success in annexation of Crimea into its territory, US could not do anything, only approved sanctions against Russia economically. In Syria crisis, with successful policy of Islamic republic of Iran and Russia in Syria and their support for Assad, America’s policy practically limited to Kurdish areas of Syria and America does not have a decisive role in Syria.

As well as, US have not been succeeded in Iraq crisis by forming anti – ISIL coalition. We can add to this list America’s recent actions such as the attack on the air base in Syria, actions against North Korea, increased conflicts with China, using the strongest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan and etc. all this actions show that the trend of developments are going through in a way that is in contrary to the interests and wishes of US in different regions.

US cannot now control the activities of competitors in other parts of the world, inevitably react passively to the developments. Continuation of this trend would mean the failure of America's policies such as economic sanctions and threats of military attack against other countries.US must accept the end of the unipolar system and the emergence of powers such as Russia, Iran and China.