The 4 Ps & Strategic Context
Peace, Power, Prosperity, and this make up Jentleson’s four Ps
Principles
Congress has formally declared war only this many times
Five
By deciding which issues get attention, the news media perform this function
Agenda setting
His 1904 corollary to the Monroe Doctrine claimed a right for the U.S. to intervene militarily in the Western Hemisphere
Theodore Roosevelt
Writing as “X,” Kennan urged this long term strategy toward Soviet expansion
Containment
Mearsheimer says great powers fear each other largely because no central authority exists above states, a condition known as this
Anarchy
Jentleson says the idea that politics “stops at the water’s edge” is this
A myth
Page and Shapiro challenged the Almond-Lippmann consensus by arguing that the collective public is this
Rational
After Wilson proposed the League of Nations, the U.S. Senate responded by
Rejecting it
Announced in a Harvard commencement speech, this plan aimed to rebuild Western European economies
Marshall Plan
This scholar represents the liberal institutionalist side against Mearsheimer in Unit I
Keohane
This 1973 law, passed over Nixon’s veto, requires the president to consult Congress and withdraw forces after sixty days unless Congress extends them
Jentleson’s name for a public whose support for force depends on the policy objective: restraining an aggressor on one side and regime change on the other
Pretty prudent public
In 1937 FDR called for a quarantine of these
Aggressor nations
This 1950 National Security Council paper called for globalizing and militarizing containment
NSC-68
Mearsheimer calls great power politics this, because even states that want only security end up competing
A tragedy
The Bay of Pigs is an example where a desire for consensus suppresses dissent among advisers
Groupthink
When presidents avoid options they expect the public would punish even without any actual pressure
Anticipatory parameter setting
This proposed 1930s constitutional amendment would have required a national referendum before any decision to go to war
Ludlow Amendment
This 1972 agreement limited strategic arms using a formula called essential equivalence. It is the best known product of détente
SALT I
A president imposes sanctions over human rights abuses despite the cost to U.S. exports. This is a trade off between these two Ps
This congressional power Congress used to cut funds for Vietnam is its strongest tool over military operations
Power of the purse
In Wittkopf’s typology, people who support both cooperative and militant internationalism are called this
Internationalists
FDR gave Britain destroyers in exchange for bases through this kind of deal
Executive agreement
He argues that Vietnam wasn't an accident of drift, because presidents knew the risks and persevered (aka, the system worked)
Gelb