Government Chapter 4 Flashcards
What is foreign policy?
Our diplomatic policy and how we interact with other nations.
What are the goals of foreign policy?
The mains goals of foreign policy are to keep the peace with other nations, maintain a balance of power between countries, and working with allies to solve international problems.
Whose job is it to define and direct foreign policy?
The State Department
What is diplomacy?
The U.S. Department of State manages America’s relationships with foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries. The management of all of these relationships is called diplomacy. It is essentially the art and science of maintaining peaceful relationships between nations, groups, or individuals.
How do the President and Congress work together in foreign policy?
The president signs treaties with advice and consent of the senate.
The president has the power to nominate ambassadors and appointments are made with the advice and consent of the Senate. The State Department formulates and implements the president’s foreign policy. Learn more about ambassadors, diplomatic history, and American embassies.
What is the sec. of states job?
usually principal foreign policy adviser
Foreign service- who is this?
ambassadors- they help manage political and economic relations with a specific country.
National Security Council/Advisor - who makes up this council?
The president, vice president, sec. of state, attorney general and several others
Central Intelligence Agency - what do they do? Who appoints the director?
collects, evaluates, and disseminates vital information on economic, military, political, scientific, and other developments abroad to safeguard national security. The president appoints the director
Talk about the United Nations-
It was created to help maintain international peace and stability. It was formed in 1945. It was originally 51 member states. Headquarters: NYC - 193 members- 195 countries - 2 are non member observers
Goals of the UN - 4 main goals
International peace and security
Friendly relations
Solve international problems
Harmonizing Actions
UN Bodies - Give 2 main bodies and their membership
General Assembly - 193 Represented
Security Council - 15
UN Membership - how many? How do countries join? Who can join?
A recommendation for admission from the Security Council requires affirmative votes from at least nine of the council’s fifteen members. States are admitted to membership in the United Nations by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. Membership in the Organization, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, “is open to all peace-loving States that accept the obligations contained in the United Nations Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able to carry out these obligations”.
What is the relationship between the US and the UN?
The US is a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent member of the UN security council.
How does US support monetarily?
providing weapons, financial aid and sometimes soldiers
What are some criticisms of the UN?
expanded roll, overstepping boundaries, and not effective enough
Two Presidencies Thesis - explain the 2 ideas of the thesis
President over foreign affairs, president over domestic affiars.
What are some approaches to foreign policy?
Security, prosperity, and the creation of a better world are the three most prominent goals of American foreign policy. Security, the protection of America’s interests and citizens, is a perennial concern, but America has tried to achieve security in different ways throughout its long history.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The United States would not get involved in European affairs.
The United States would not interfere with existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
No other nation could form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere.
The United States would not get involved in European affairs.
The United States would not interfere with existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
No other nation could form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere.
World War II and US isolation - how did it affect isolationism
Isolationists believed that World War II was ultimately a dispute between foreign nations and that the United States had no good reason to get involved. The best policy, they claimed, was for the United States to build up its own defenses and avoid antagonizing either side.
talk about containment
Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the Interbellum period.
What is the domino theory?
if one country fall to communism then they all fall
Truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman’s foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism.
Cold War - what is it? When did it occur?
As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.
