1. Warm-up: What is foreign policy?
a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives
US Foreign Policy goals-- "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community."

2. 21st-Century United States
Foreign Policy

3. Factors that shape Foreign Policy
Domestic politics
Most Americans are ill-informed
Nation of immigrants
Can’t appear weak
Rise of Imperial President
Bypass checks & balances
Violates foundation of American government
Resource wars
oil
Economics
Multi-national corporations
Economic power elite
Military industrial complex
Ideology
Vision of national greatness—America’s mission
Racial hierarchy
Extremely anti-revolutionary
Unilateralism—acting alone and independent

4. Policy up to 2000
Isolationism was practice throughout 19th and 20th century except during:
War with Spain 1898
World War I
World War II
After WWII, the Cold War began and US foreign policy was containment: containing communism and not letting it spread
At the end of the Cold War (1991), US foreign policy was all about nation building—until Sept. 11, 2001

5. U.S. Military Intervention in the 1990s – Nation Building
1992 Somalia-US troops to stop civil war but failed to stop it
Many Americans favored economic support for foreign countries.
Just as many feared lending military support to embattled nations.
1994 Haiti-US troops to stop civil turmoil
But Clinton felt several conflicts demanded U.S intervention.
1995 Bosnia-US troops to stop ethnic cleansing of Muslims & Croats 5

6. Conflict in the Middle East increased in the 1990s.
Fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians became more violent
In 2000, Clinton brought Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli leader Ehud Barak to Camp David to broker a peace agreement between them.
It was not successful.

7. The U.S. itself became a target of Middle Eastern extremists.
A terrorist group called al Qaeda exploded a bomb in the World Trade Center in New York City in 1993.
The group also set off bombs killing more 225 people at American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
In 2000, they attacked the USS Cole, a warship anchored off Yemen, killing 17 American sailors.
In 2001, al Qaeda terrorist attack on US soil, killing
Almost 3000 people and wounding over 6000 more.
American leaders learned that fighting terrorism would be extremely difficult. 7

8. Policy: War on Terror
bin Laden formed al Qaeda to try and end American involvement in the Middle East
Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda directly responsible for the 9-11 attack on World Trade Center towers in New York
Taliban government supported al Qaeda & bin Laden in Afghanistan
US overthrew Taliban and freed Afghanistan
Bin Laden escapes in mountains and US pursues him and his al Qaeda forces in the region
May 2011…bin Laden caught & killed

9. America’s Foreign Policy
In the United States “national interests”
Democracy
Economics/Trade
Big business profit---outsourcing
2010-advancing American interests
Security of American people
Growing U.S. economy
Support for our values
An international order that can address 21st-Century challenges

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