The War on Terror and the Strategy of Containment

The bachelor thesis deals with the nature of fight against terrorism of Barack Obama's government. Its objective is to verify the main hypothesis which says: "The transformation of war against terrorism, after Barack Obama acceded to the office, has got characteristics of Strategy of Containment as perceived by Ian Shapiro." Verification process will be done by comparing modern Strategy of Containment by Ian Shapiro to american strategy of war with terrorism, exercised by Barack Obama's Administration after his accession to the office in January 2009. In Obama's strategy of war against terrorism this paper will look for modern outlines of the containment doctrine and consequently it will evaluate Obama's strategy and concept of national security from this perspective as whole.