Condoleezza Rice's Role In American Foreign Policy

American Foreign Policy is a broad topic; however, in this paper I will discuss Condoleezza Rice’s role as Secretary of State in President George W. Bush’s second term and address ways in which she carried out policy-decisions in Iraq as well as discuss how she viewed her role in the decision-making process; and I will examine the relationships she had with President Bush and members of the National Security Council. It is important to know that Condoleezza Rice became one of the most powerful Secretary of State’s in the modern era of the presidency because of her close personal relationship with President Bush (Bell, 2008). To demonstrate how significant Condoleezza Rice was as Secretary of State I will focus on her diplomatic negotiations of the transformational process of a liberated Iraq and discuss the strategies and decisions made to implement the rebuilding of Iraq. Before I discuss how she implemented diplomacy and strategy to rebuilding Iraq it is significant to understand Rice’s educational background. Rice’s education is one of main factors why she was afforded the opportunity to serve with the President of the United States. Indeed, for …show more content…
Bush in his second term; however, Rice served as national security advisor in Bush’s first term. Critics argue that she was ineffective as a national security advisor because she had an overwhelmingly personal relationship with President Bush that Rice did whatever the president wanted to do and did not manage the national security council effectively because she was more concerned with following the president’s lead then gathering the hard facts from the different departments of the national security council and presenting them to the president (Caldwell, 2011, 200). Although, she did not carry out the job of national security advisor effectively, Rice was praised for her leadership and achievements as the Secretary of State in Bush’s second