The US Foreign Policy Flashcards
What is foreign policy?
-U.S. relationships to international community and collective U.S. response to global events
What is the Bush Doctrine?
-Says there is no neutrality on War on Terror
What are 2 institutions to help developing countries?
- World bank
- International monetary fund
What are the two schools of thought that answer how much U.S. ought to be involved in foreign policy?
- Isolationism
- Internationalist
What are the views of isolationism?
-The U.S. ought to stay out of international affairs and focus on U.S. internal affairs
What are the views of internationalists?
-The U.S. ought to be involved in making treaties (economic/political) with other nations
What paradigms answers the question of how should the U.S. be involved in internal affairs?
- Multilateralism
- Unilateralism
What are the views of Unilateralism?
-The U.S. ought to act independently so sovereignty is not given up
What are the views of Unilateralism?
-The U.S. ought to become involved with associations with other countries creates for greater legitimacy