The Bush Doctrine

A set of foreign policy principles articulated by the George W. Bush administration after the September 11 attacks, advocating for US global hegemony and the right to wage unilateral preventive or preemptive war against perceived threats rather than relying solely on deterrence and multilateral consensus.

Claims that use this term

• The Bush Doctrine legitimized unilateral preventive war and rival suppression
• The Bush Doctrine was a plan to secure US global hegemony through preemptive war.