Us Foreign Policy And Its Impact On The Muslim Arab Community

Abstract

The United States (US) foreign policy on the Muslim Arab community has gone through stages beginning from the time soon after the so-called Columbus discovery of America in 1492, then after gaining independence and becoming the US, until just before World War I (WWI), and after it emerged as a world power due to the collapse of the former world power, Britain due to World War II (WWII). There is a need to understand the impact of this US foreign policy on the Muslim Arab community. This study focussed on the background of the US foreign policy, the formation processes of this foreign policy, the objectives, and finally, the impact of this foreign policy on the Muslim Arab community. Findings showed that the US foreign policy developed initially from Europe, then from an indirect policy while still a British colony, to a direct yet underdog foreign policy after gaining independence, and finally becoming a wider imperial foreign policy that impacted the Muslim Arab communities when the US emerged as a world power after the collapse of Britain and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. This implies that although the US started as an underdog, it managed to rise to world leadership, safeguard its interests and those of Europe, and impose itself upon the East, primarily the Muslim Arab communities, after dissipating the Ottoman Empire.