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| Basic Goals of Foreign Policy |
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National Security
Alliance Security
International Stability
Economic Development |
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primary goal of foreign policy
protecting the nation, its citizens and property abroad |
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| "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty |
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Henry kissinger worked on peace w/ egypt, Israel, and syria to lift the oil embargo |
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| after ww2- marshall plan supplied billions of $ to rebuild Europe |
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Isolation 1290-1890
Expansion 1890-1910
Vacillation 1910-1940
Obligation 1940-1991
Transition 1991-Present |
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| US was an emerging force and had an important manufactoring sector |
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Nuclear detterrence- discouraging Soviet aggression by building a nuclear arsenal so large that the soviets faced massive retaliation if they attacked the US or its allies
Containment- confronting the Russians w/ counterforce whenever they tried to expand the communist empire
(TURNED COLD WARS INTO HOT WARS)a
2ex. korea and vietnam |
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| discouraging Soviet aggression by building a nuclear arsenal so large that the soviets faced massive retaliation if they attacked the US or its Allies |
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| confronting the Russians w/ counterforce whenever they tried to expand the communist empire (turned cold wars into hot wars) |
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| 1990's- america performed peace keeping operations in balkan, samalia, and haiti |
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| 1st treaty between Japan and western nations |
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| policy of the US designed to achieve american objectives in its interaction w/ other nations |
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| 1st to preach salvation through Christ in Burma |
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| 2 success's of the policy of containment |
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president
white house
congress
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head of state
commander in chief
chief executive |
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| represents US abroad and initiates treaties w foreign leaders |
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| appoints secretaries of state and defense |
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| State and Defense department |
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| top foreign policy making department |
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| first female national security advisor |
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| National Security Council |
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| oldest and most prestigious of all cabinet offices |
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| gov't offices or residences located in foreign capitals |
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acts as the president's personal representative
heads embassies |
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| exists primarily to encourage commercial contacts overseas |
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| largest segment of national gov't |
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| part of navy but functions seperately |
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senate must approve treaties by 2/3rd vote
constitutional powers to declare war
approve nominees to the Dept of state and defense |
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| 1st diplomatic mission for US |
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| formal agreements made between nations or groups of nations |
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| increasing intergration of world markets, politics, and culture, has made an isolationist foreign policy impossible |
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| to maintain world peace and uphold human rights |
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| 5 permanent members of the UN |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| to protect Western Europe and North America from Soviet aggression |
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| economic alliance of many European nations |
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| United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
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| responsible for delivering foreign aid |
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| 2 notable success's of foreign aid |
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| famine ethiopians starving communist gov't |
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| coercive acts taken against a nation in an attempt to influence its actions |
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| use of unlawful means of war to achieve one's goals |
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| nations that seek to develop weapons of mass destruction or supply, support, or provide safe havens for terrorist organizations |
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| Weapons of mass destruction |
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nuclear weapons radiological weapons biological weapons
chemical weapons |
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| use terrorism to advance their political agenda |
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