Foreign Policy

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Foreign Policy

• Goals
• Types
• People involved

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Foreign Policy Goals

• Maintaining National Security
• - to protect the rights, freedoms, and property
  of the United States and its people
• Supporting Democracy
• - aid democratic nations as well as move them
  toward democracy

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Foreign Policy Goals

• Promoting World Peace
• - the more nations at peace, the less likely the
  U.S. will be drawn into an existing conflict
• Providing Aid to People in Need
• - assume the responsibility of providing
  humanitarian and other relief to foreign countries

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Foreign Policy Goals

• Establishing Free and Open Trade
• - increases the size of the market to which
  domestic businesses can sell their goods
• - gives U.S. consumers a chance to buy goods
  from around the world

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Types of Foreign Policy

• 1. Isolationism
• A view that a nation should tend to its domestic
  affairs rather than to international affairs
• 2. Realism
• Believe an internationalist approach taking an
  active role in international affairs to promote
  U.S. interests
• Military intervention when necessary

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Types of Foreign Policy

• Neoisolationism
• - foreign involvement should be kept to a
  minimum
• - not only for the good of the United States but
  also because such involvement is likely to be bad
  for nations in whose affairs the U.S. would
  intervene

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Types of Foreign Policy

• Idealism
• - want an internationalist foreign policy
• - are motivated by what is good for other
  countries as well as the U.S.
• - support democratic values everywhere

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Role of the President

• Influence through general acceptance
• Congress and the American people give the
  president the authority to make policy decisions
  as needed
• Influence as commander in chief
• Used to order short-term military strikes
• commit forces to serve in what have been called
  undeclared wars
• Influence through executive agreements
• Formal understandings with foreign governments

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Role of the Department of State

• Have bureaus dealing with specific regions of the
  world
• 2. Have bureaus dealing with issues such as
  human rights, drug trafficking, and environmental
  and scientific matters

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Role of the Department of State

• Maintain embassies and consulates
• a. Embassy diplomatic center
• b. Ambassador the chief diplomatic official
  at each embassy
• - a personal representative of the president
• - receive the post as a reward for supporting
  the president or his party

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Role of the Department of State

• Maintain embassies and consulates
• c. Consulate deal with U.S. commercial
  interests
• d. Consul head of a consulate
• - appointed by the president
• - confirmed by the Senate
• e. Foreign Service members of the State
  Department who serve abroad

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Role of the Department of State

• Issuing Passports and Visas
• a. Passport
• - a formal document issued by a government to
  one of its citizens for travel to other countries

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Role of the Department of State

• Issuing Passports and Visas
• b. Visa
• - a seal that is placed on foreign passports
  that entitles their holder to enter the U.S.

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Role of the US Department of Defense

• Headquarters are the Pentagon
• 34 acres
• 800,000
• civilians
• 1.4 million
• members of the
• armed forces

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Pentagon
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Role of the US Department of Defense

• Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Most influential military advisors
• chair (selected by the president)
• Army chief of staff
• Chief of naval operations
• Air Force chief of staff
• Marine Corps commandant

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Role of the CIA

1. A single organization responsible for providing
   the president with foreign intelligence
   (information about the activities of other
   governments)
2. Gather information related to national security
3. Analyze that information
4. Brief the president and the National Security
   Council
5. Engage in covert (secret) operations