Overview
America's roles
Vocabulary
Instruments in Foreign Policy
People in Foreign Policy
100
Is America's foreign policy currently more concerned with State or Non-State actors?
Non-state actors like terrorist groups
100
Role involving an effort by greater powers to play off eachother so that no country or coalition of countries can impose conditions on other states?
Balance-of-Power Role
100
An agreement made between the president and another country that has the force of a treaty but does not require the Senate's "advice and consent."
Executive agreement
100
The treaty that links the US with Australia and New Zealand
What is ANZUS
100
Management of the press becomes harder durning ______.
Times of war, cold war, and any sustained threat to national security.
200
What is one exaple of an organization the US is involved in that promotes free trade?
World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement, OR General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
200
Since the Cold War, ________ has been the prevailing American role internationally.
Holy Alliance Role
200
A treaty made between two nations.
Bilateral treaty
200
The instrument of foreign policy that should be used first in all situations.
What is Diplomacy
200
In a crisis, the arena for foreign policy particpation is ______.
Limited to the President, Congress, and other constitutionally designed players.
300
Environmental policy, human rights policy, and peacekeeping are all forms of what type of policy?
International humanitarian policies
300
After the Cold War, internal bipolarity replaced external bipolarity as a result of global capitalism. Within countries, it became an issue of ________ vs. ________.
Capitalism vs. Nationhood
300
The willingness to strike first in order to prevent an enemy attack.
Preemption
300
The international monetary structure that focuses on long term loans and programs
What is the World Bank or International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
300
What are two different types of interest groups?
Economic, Ethnic, Environmental, Human Rights
400
After WW2, the US built up its military to discourage attack, which is a strategy called ________.
Deterrence
400
After WW2, the US's policy of "containment" was an example of which role?
Holy Alliance Role
400
An agreement to offer a trading partner the lowest tariff rate offered to other trading partners.
Most Favored Nation Status
400
The post-WW2 plan to help rebuild war-torn Europe and foster positive relations with capitalism, especially in central Europe
What is The Marshall Plan
400
Are single-issue interest groups or peak associations generally more effective?
Single-issue interest groups
500
What are the 3 goals of foreign policy?
1. Security 2. Economic Prosperity 3. International Humanitarian Policies
500
What is one advantage and disadvantage of Napoleonic Unilateralism as seem in the US's involvement in the Iraq war?
Advantage-- No allies to answer to Disadvantage-- It became hard to do what we had intended to by ourselves
500
Foreign policy based on the idea that the US should take preemptive action against threats to its national security.
Bush Doctrine
500
The article of the North Atlantic Treaty only invoked once in history, and over what event?
What is Article V, stating that an attack on one country is an attack on all member countries, invoked after 9/11.
500
What is the job of the National Security Council?
Assist president with understanding and planning strategies to help with foreign policy.