chapter 17: Foreign Policy

Question 1

balance of power

Answer 1

a situation in which all powers of the world are balanced militarily

Question 2

balance of trade

Answer 2

where all trade relations are somewhat balanced, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial

Question 3

cold war

Answer 3

period shortly after world war 2 until 1989-1990 where advanced industrial democracies divided behind the Soviet Union in the East and the Western United States

Question 4

diplomacy

Answer 4

formal relations between countries

Question 5

foreign policy

Answer 5

government’s goal in dealing with other countries and the strategies used to achieve them

Question 6

free trade

Answer 6

policy where a country has unfiltered access to another country’s market and goods and services freely flow across borders

Question 7

hard power

Answer 7

the use of military power and influence to the behavior of another country

Question 8

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Answer 8

cross-national military organization with bases in Belgium and Germany formed to maintain stability in Europe

Question 9

soft power

Answer 9

nonmilitary tools used to influence another country such as economic sanctions

Question 10

UN; United Nations

Answer 10

an international organization of nation-states that seek to promote peace, international relations, and economic and environmental programs

Question 11

congressional executive agreement

Answer 11

an international agreement that is not a treaty and that is negotiated by the president and approved by a simple majority of the House and Senate

Question 12

sole executive agreement

Answer 12

an international agreement that is negotiated and approved by the president acting alone

Question 13

treaty

Answer 13

an international agreement entered but the united States that requires presidential negotiations with other nations consent by 2/3 of The senate, and final ratification by the president.

Question 14

two presidencies

Answer 14

the thesis by Wildavsky that there are two distinct presidencies, of for foreign and one for domestic policy, and that presidents are ore successful in foreign than domestic policy.

Question 15

containment

Answer 15

the effort by the united states and western European allies, begun during the Cold War, prevent the spread of communism

Question 16

isolationism

Answer 16

a foreign policy approach that advocates a nation’s staying out of foreign entanglements and keeping to itself

Question 17

liberal internationalism

Answer 17

a foreign policy approach of becoming proactively engaged in world affairs by cooperating in a community of nations

Question 18

neoconservatism

Answer 18

the belief that, rather than exercising restraint, the united states should aggressively use its might to promote its values and ideals around the world

Question 19

neo-isolationism

Answer 19

a policy of distancing the united states from the united nations and other international organizations, while still participating in the world economy

Question 20

selective engagement

Answer 20

a policy of retaining a strong military presence and remaining engaged across the world