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Chapter 14
Foreign Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 5 goals of foreign policy | National security, free and open trade, world peace, supporting democracy, and providing aid to people in need. |
| isolationism | to stay out of the affairs of other nations |
| internationalist | promoting relationships with nations |
| Neoisolationism | semi-isolating policy with only getting involved with other nations when it benefits us. |
| Embassies | diplomatic centers in other countries. |
| Treaties | signed agreements between nations. |
| Defense alliances | agreements to come to another nation’s aid in the event of an attack |
| Economic Sanctions | restricting imports, exports, or financial transactions, or by banning trade with other countries |
| just war theory | a state may justly-or fairly- go to war under certain specific circumstances and must limit its conduct according to certain standards. |
| Department of State | leading US foreign policy agency |
| Department of Defense | supervises the military activities of the nations and advises the president |
| Central Intelligence Agency | Collects, evaluates, and distributes foreign intelligence to help the president. |
| idealism | takes the internationalist approach to foreign policy that takes in account the interests of other countries also |
| liberalism | an internationalist approach that takes into count the defense of human rights in the guiding light of idealism |
| United Nations | a peace keeping organizations that helps maintain peace and security, and develops friendly relation and cooperation among other nations. |
| 6 Major divisions of the United Nations | The General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, the Trusteeship Council, and the Scretariat |
| World Trade Organization | a organization that works to ensure equal-access trade among countries that make up about 97% of the worlds trade |
| international monetary fund | helps almost all world nations with monetary issues when their economies are stuck in debt |
| World Bank | works with assisting developing nations that need to meet certain economic goals, such as road construction or agriculture. |
| International Criminal Court | This this considered “a count of last resort” and hears cases that UN member nations cannot or will not prosecute, as well as cases referred by the UN Security Council. |
| International Tribunals | These were formed before the existence the International Criminal Court to prosecute specific atrocities in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and will expire when their work is complete. |
| Monroe Doctrine | US proclaims that they will stay neutral in the conflict happening in Europe, and Europe nations need not to colonized any areas in the western hemisphere (North & South American). If they did then the US would response with military force. |
| Détente | it means a relaxing of tensions from the Cold War. This happens after the Fall of the Soviet Union |
| Containment | the containing of communism |
| deterrence | a policy of building up the US armed forces to discourage acts of military aggression by other nations. This in a large part was directed at the Soviet Union |
| preemptive strike doctrine | US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are another point of contention, although the US considered both actions part of the policy |
| Democratization | the establishment of democratic governments has been apart of the current US foreign policy. |
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