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| A policy that involves choice taking, like domestic policy, but additionally involves choices about relations with the rest of the world. The president is the chief initiator of foreign policy in the United States |
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| Created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms. The seat of real power in this is the Security Council. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the United States, Canada, most Western European Nations, and turkey, all of whom agreed to combine military forces and to treat a war against one as a war against all. |
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| An alliance of the major Western European nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor polices, making its members one economic unit. An example of regional organization. |
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| The head of the Department of State and traditionally a key adviser to the president on foreign policy. |
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| The head of the Department of Defense and the president's key adviser on military policy; a key foreign policy actor. |
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| The commanding officers of the armed services who advise the president on military policy. |
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| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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| An agency created after WWII, to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad. It became involved in intrigue conspiracy, and meddling as well. |
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| A foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation's history, whereby the United States has tried to stay out of other nation's conflicts, particularly European wars. This was reaffirmed by the Monroe Doctrine. |
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| A foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, "Contain" its advances, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possibly, but by force if necessary. |
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| War by other than military means usually emphasizing ideological conflict, such as that between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of WWII until the 1990s. |
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| A tense relationship beginning in the 1950s between the Soviet Union and the United States whereby one side's weaponry became the other side's goad to procure more weaponry, and so on. |
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| A slow transformation from conflict thinking to cooperative thinking in foreign policy strategy and policy-making. It sought a relaxation of tensions between the superpowers, coupled with firm guarantees of mutual security. |
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| Strategic Defense Initiative |
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| Renamed "Star Wars" by critics, a plan for defense against the Soviet Union unveiled by President Reagan in 1983. SDI would create a global umbrella in space, using computers to scan the skies and high-tech devices to destroy invading missiles. |
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| Mutual dependency, in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another's economic lifelines. |
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| A special tax added to imported goods to raise the price, thereby protecting American businesses and workers from foreign competition. |
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| The ratio of what is paid for imports to what is earned from exports. When more is important than exported, there is a balance-of-trade deficit. |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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| An economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that controls the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations. |
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