INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• FOREIGN POLICY
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• Governments
  plan for
• dealing with
  other nations

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International Relations

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

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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
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How foreign policy is conducted

• Foreign Aid Includes money, military assistance,
  food, or other supplies given to help another
  country

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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

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How foreign policy is conducted

• OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting
  Countries

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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.

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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

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Postwar Foreign Policy

• Development of Atomic Bomb
• Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe

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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.

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After the cold war

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

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The boys and me At the SALT II Treaty
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After the Cold War

• Crises now tend to be more regional than global.
• Iraq
• Somali
• Haiti
• Israel and the Palestinians
• North Korea