The United States of America

The United States of America is a country in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The country also includes the state of Alaska, which is in the northwestern part of North America, and the state of Hawaii, which is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. It borders Canada, Mexico and Russia (maritime border). The US governs 6 inhabited territories: Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Marianas, United States Virgin Islands and American Samoa.

It is an Outer Crescent country and has an Atlanticist geopolitical orientation. The USA is mainly a Sea Power country, and is a center of unipolar world hegemony.

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Geopolitical profile

Geopolitical position:

Position on the geopolitical map:

Outer Crescent. Pure Atlanticism. Sea Power. Thalassocracy.

Geopolitical balance:

100% Atlanticist

Main geopolitical allies:

NATO countries (special relations with the United Kingdom), Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Australia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arabian Emirates, Pakistan, Colombia.

Opponents:

Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Equator, Iran, Syria, North Korea

Neutrality:

Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Central Asia, Oceania

Sphere of national interest.:

Western Hemisphere (according to Monroe doctrine) and the world as whole (according to current strategic documents). Zones of Specific interest: Middle East, Pacific, Europe, Eurasia, Central America.

International disputes:

• Promotion of color revolutions throughout the world in spheres of specific interest
• Application of controlled chaos strategy throughout the world
• Military Involvement in Syrian conflict, supporting the anti-governmental forces.
• Self-declared war on ISIS in Syria

• Military presence in Iraq. Implication in Iraqi civil war. Supplies of ammo and intelligence cooperation with legal government of Iraq, supporting Iraq in its war against ISIS. Also the US is accused for secret creating and supporting ISIS.

• Supplies ammo and financial and intelligence support to Ukraine in its proxy war with Russia and irredentist republics of Eastern Ukraine

• Conflict with Russia over Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. The US is the initiator of a sanction war on Russia.

• Military presence in Afghanistan and participation in the war against the Taliban

• Drone campaign in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen

• Informational and logistical support of Saudi coalition’s intervention in Yemen

• Conflict with China over Spratly Islands in the South China Sea

Territorial disputes:

The status of the Bering Sea (maritime Boundary Agreement in the Bering Sea is still not ratified by the Russian Duma.
The US opposes Russian claims on broadening its continental shelf in the Arctic.
Canada and the United States dispute how to divide the Beaufort Sea and the status of the Northwest Passage.
The Bahamas and US have not agreed on a maritime boundary.
US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from Cuba and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease.
Haiti claims US-administered Navassa Island.

Ethnosociology:

Ethnical structure:

The USA’s population consists of emigrants from different European and Asian countries, descendants of black slaves from Africa and the native population (major part of whom was annihilated by white settlers).

Ethnical structure:
72.41% White
12.61% Black
9.11% Other/Multiracial
4.75% Asian
1.12% Native
14%- Americans of Hispanic origin (US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean persons of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin including those of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic, Spanish, and Central or South American origin living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group)

Religious structure:

Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%

Languages:

English

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Political Ideology:

Political map:

Political schema :

Liberal ideology dominates American political life. The state itself was created on the principles of liberal philosophy of Enlightenment. It is one of oldest living constitutional republics and federations.

The USA has a two-party political system with both major parties, Democratic and Republican, being liberal with some nuances (Democrats are liberals and left-liberals, Republicans are conservative liberals).

Elitist groups play an important role in American political system: family clans (Bushes, Kennedys, Clintons), freemasonry, para-masonic groups and student societies of prestigious Universities (i.e. Skull and Bones).

Also different pressure groups are very active, including foreign lobbies. The most influential is Israeli one.

Geoeconomy:

Economical descriprtion:

The state of the “Core”. The first world. The USA is a center of dollar emission, which makes it the principal economy in the world, and attracts resources, people and capital from the other parts of the world.

Geostrategy:

Geostrategy description:

Challenges to unipolarity and American global hegemony from BRICS countries.

Mass migration of the Latin American population, who do not share the common American identity. Instead they propose their own identity, based on Catholicism and mixture of indigenous American and South European culture.

Race contradictions within the USA.

Interior criminal activity.

Activity of international criminal networks.

Islamic terrorism.

Cyber terrorism.

Values structure:

Marginal notes:

The bond of American values are the values of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who established most of the North American colonies and later the United States. From the beginning, the US was distinguished by the mixture of this Calvinist Protestant values and liberal and secular ones. Because of a great number of different religious sects, races and ethnos, the concept of tolerance plays a major role in American society.

Small towns and villages lean more towards traditional values, big cities – Post-Modern ones.

The east and west coast of the country oriented more towards a liberal Post-Modern set of values, with the Mid-West and South being more conservative.

Transnational organizations:

Transnational description:

UN (founder, permanent member of Security Council)

International Monetary Fund, World Bank, NAFTA, Trans-Pacific Partnership, NATO, Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty (ANZUS), OSCE, G7, G20.

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