Midterm

Question 1

foreign policy

Answer 1

scope of involvement; set of goals strategies and instruments selected by policy makers

Question 2

foreign policy porcess

Answer 2

how policies get on the agenda, formulated, and implemented

Question 3

War powers act

Answer 3

• congress failed in terms of over sight in the Vietnam war
• resolution: congress stated that president can only send troops with congressional approval or if they are already being attacked

Question 4

3 stipulations of the war powers act

Answer 4

• president must consult with congress before action and thereafter regularly
• president must inform congress 48 hours before military action
• troops cannot stay for more than 60 days

Question 5

how did the presidents react to the war powers act

Answer 5

• they tend to find loop holes around it and justify that it does not apply to what they are doing
• they think it is unconstitutional

Question 6

what are the war powers acts effects on the presidents

Answer 6

• did not end the presidents unilateral use of force
• did make the president more selective in their decision to use force

Question 7

bureaucracy

Answer 7

• a complex, specialized organization filled with highly educated non-elected officials

Question 8

bureaucratic political appraoch

Answer 8

• bureaucratic agencies that use cooperation and bargaining to get policies

Question 9

arguments for bureaucratic politics

Answer 9

• improve efficiency, accountability, competence, consistency and fairness

Question 10

arguments against bureaucratic politics

Answer 10

• self interested
• group think, slippage, slow adaptation, fragmentation

Question 11

why create the department of state

Answer 11

• 1789, successor to the department of foreign affairs, essential for foreign affairs

Question 12

5 purposes of the department of state

Answer 12

• represent the US gov over seas
• represent foreign governments and people to the US government
• analyze and report on foreign events
• advise the president
• diplomacy and negotiations

Question 13

positions in the state department

Answer 13

• secretary of state
• embassies
• consulate
• ambassadors
• deputy chief of mission
• country team

Question 14

5 reasons of 4th decline of the DOS

Answer 14

1. growing importance of international affairs/ rise of American power
2. expansion of foreign policy bureaucracy
3. global communications revelation
4. increasing reliance on force
5. increasing importance on international economics

Question 15

critiques of the state department

Answer 15

• inefficient, slow, unresponsive, unable to lead USFP

Question 16

3 types of aid

Answer 16

• grants
• soft loans
• debt relief

Question 17

main reasons for giving out aid

Answer 17

• used to advance geopolitical interest
• advance business interest abroad

Question 18

functions of the department of defense

Answer 18

• unify and centralize military forces

Question 19

position in the joint chief of staff

Answer 19

• chairs
• vice chairman
• chief of staff of the arm y
• chief of naval operations
• chief staff of air force
• commandant of the marine corp
• chief of the national guard bureau
• chief of space operation

Question 20

who and what do the chief of staff advise?

Answer 20

• secretary of defense
• president

Question 21

Goldwater Nichols Act

Answer 21

• 1986
• made chair sole advisor to the president
• established vice chair and joint staff
• established combatant commands and under combatant commands

Question 22

6 characteristics of the DOD

Answer 22

• managerial style officers expected to be warrior and manager
• purist of high technology : active in politics of defense
• careerism: climb the ladder
• belief in separation of politics and military combat
• principal of concentration in warfare strategy
• emerging commitment to joints

Question 23

procedural and structural challenges of DOD

Answer 23

• coordination
• duplication
• information

Question 24

office secretary of defense

Answer 24

• create to provide better civilian control of the military and to advise the president

Question 25

5 phases of the intelligence community

Answer 25

• planning
• collection
• processing
• analyzing
• dissemination

Question 26

what is the main issue with IC

Answer 26

• decentralization, coordination, and politicization

Question 27

when was the NSC created?

Answer 27

• 1947
• to advise the president to promote coronation and integration of the USFP process

Question 28

components of the NSC system

Answer 28

1. NSC
2. NSC advisor
3. NSC staff
4. NSC interagency process

Question 29

NSC advisor

Answer 29

• advises the president
• overseeing implementation of policy they advise
• frames choice for the president

Question 30

presidents level of influence in the NSC

Answer 30

2 aspects
- presidents organization, agenda, and level of involvement
- organization of the policy making process

Question 31

state department centered system

Answer 31

• focuses on the lead agency for direction

Question 32

white house centered system

Answer 32

• centralized decision making around the president
• focused on the NSC and the president

Question 33

modern three tier sytem

Answer 33

• principal committees
• deputy committees
• working groups

Question 34

when and why as the NEC created

Answer 34

• 1993 by Clinton and because of globalization and an economic boom

Question 35

roles of the NEC director

Answer 35

• confers with president
• chairs meetings

Question 36

Key agencies in the NEC

Answer 36

• treasury department: economic affairs
• secretary of treasury: advises president financial, economic, tax policy
• department of state: USAID
• department of agriculture: ag trade
• department of commerce: importation of foreign productions, international economic policy, trade promotion of non-ag goods
• department of labor: helps formulate international and economic trade policy that effect american workers
• department of energy: energy policy plans and programs