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Title: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS


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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  • FOREIGN POLICY
    A
  • Governments
    plan for
  • dealing with
    other nations

2
International Relations
  • Goals of Americas Foreign Policy
  • National Security
  • International Trade
  • Promoting World Peace
  • Democracy and Human Rights

3
Who Conducts Foreign Policy?
  • Secretary of State Collin Powell is responsible
    for Foreign Policy.
  • Diplomacy The Process of conducting relations
    with foreign governments.

Diplomacy Man
4
How foreign policy is conducted
  • Foreign Aid Includes money, military assistance,
    food, or other supplies given to help another
    country

5
How foreign policy is conducted
  • Alliances Formal Agreements or unions among
    nations. NATO (North Atlantic Treat Organization)
    Countries will come to the aid of one another if
    attacked

6
How foreign policy is conducted
  • OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting
    Countries

7
How foreign policy is conducted
  • International Trade What products may be traded
    back and forth, tariffs (taxes) that are imposed,
    etc.
  • Trade Sanctions Used to punish countries by
    imposing trade barriers.

8
Postwar Foreign Policy
  • Isolationism When a nation does not form
    alliances with other nations and stays neutral in
    any conflict.
  • Cold WarTwo events after
  • WWII changed U.S. foreign policy
  • Forever

9
Postwar Foreign Policy
  • Development of Atomic Bomb
  • Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe

10
Postwar Foreign Policy
  • Cold War Dominated from the 1940s until the
    1980s.
  • U.S. followed a policy of Containment keeping
    communism from spreading.

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Arms Race of the 60 and 70s
  • Following WWII Russia and the U.S. were engaged
    in an arms race.

12
After the cold war
  • Nuclear Threats Nuclear proliferation North
    Korea, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, India Nuclear
    weapons falling into the wrong hands from Russia.

13
The boys and me At the SALT II Treaty
14
After the Cold War
  • Crises now tend to be more regional than global.
  • Iraq
  • Somali
  • Haiti
  • Israel and the Palestinians
  • North Korea
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