Energy policies of the USA in the first decade of 21st century

¹ Istanbul Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey
² Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey

^* Corresponding author: corahakan@gmail.com

Abstract

At the end of the 20th century, the USA’s environmental and energy policies were based on its international influence and domestic lobby groups. However, by the beginning of the new millennium, this country on the did not believe in its undisputed global leadership position in the unipolar world and changed its policies in line with global domination under the new conservatives’ influence. After 2001, the events allowed the neoconservatives to apply the philosophies theoretically formed and developed since 1930 in practice. The policies, including energy, environment and other strategic issues, of the government administration, which was determined with neoconservative motives, faced a great reaction and the domestic support began to decline. The neoconservatives faced that their policies that were inconsistent with the facts and resulted in a great disappointment in the U.S. public opinion.