Integrated Realism and Hegemonic Military Intervention in Unipolarity

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has undertaken several military interventions abroad, fluctuating widely in scope from the massive intervention in the Gulf War through medium-scale intervention in Panama and Haiti to the limited and abruptly terminated engagement in Somalia. Similarly another regional crisis (Bosnia) was the occasion for great fluctuations of policy. The U.S. response to the crisis shifted from military disengagement in the first four years of the crisis to a considerable intervention on the ground in the last three years. It has also refrained from intervention on other occasions, notably in post-Soviet and African crises.