Chapter 16 Foreign Policy America’s Global Role Policy Machinery National Security and Domestic policy Current Issues
Isolationism Monroe Doctrine Isolationism - U.S. should not involve itself in European and Asian conflicts Russian Revolution WWI - League of Nations
Internationalism WWII - Dec 1941 Multinationalism –United Nations 1945 –“Iron Curtain” 1946 –Marshall Plan 1946 –Truman Doctrine 1947 –NATO 1949 –SEATO 1954 –CENTO 1955 –OAS 1962
Military Intervention Korean War Vietnam War Cold War - Dual Super Powers –Truman Doctrine –Nixon Doctrine –Détente/Peaceful Coexistence –Reagan - “Evil Empire Speech” Solidarity Movement –Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
New World Order Single Super Power Reuniting Germany 1990 Iraqi War Part I Collapse of Yugoslavia –Bosnia 1994 –Serbia/Kosovo 1999 International Terrorism
Foreign Policy Machinery National Security Act of 1947 –DOD –NSC –USAF –CIA Department of State –U.N. Reps –Ambassadors –Geographic Bureaus African, European, Eurasian etc –Functional Bureaus Intel and Research, Counter Terrorism etc –Foreign Service Officer Staff
Department of Defense Office of Secretary of Defense –civilian staff of various departments and Defense Agencies Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) –Senior Officers of each branch Unified Military Commands –Functional or Geographic Unified Headquarters Defense Agencies
Other Foreign Policy Players Congress –lacks short term control –parochialism –disbursed action and info collection Multinational Corporations –international decisions based on profits $1.4 trillions investments –interdependence of world economy Military-Industrial Complex –DOD, Defense Contractors, Congress Department of Homeland Security –joint effort to protect U.S. from terrorism
Current Issues War on Terrorism Third World Development –International Monetary Fund –World Bank