z: ch 20 final

Question 1

instruments of foreign policy

Answer 1

1. military-use of threat of force
2. economic-trade agreements, tariffs, embargos etc
3. diplomatic-negotiations to establish agreements between nations

Question 2

embargos

Answer 2

impose an official ban on (trade/country/commodity)

Question 3

NSC national security council

Answer 3

coordinate foreign policy and military policy (made up of president, vice-president, sec. of defense and state)

Question 4

communism

Answer 4

all property is public owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
—>the us prevented the spread of communism in SE asia (vietnam was)—> containment policy

Question 5

war on terror

Answer 5

after attacks on 9/11 president george bush declared war on terrorism

Question 6

taliban and al Qaeda

Answer 6

in 2001 the U.S. launched an attack on the TALIBAN regime that controlled AFGHANISTAN which was responsible for harboring the terrorist group AL QAEDA which was responsible for 9/11.

Question 7

guns for butter

Answer 7

a metaphor used by scholars that compares the spending done on defense spending versus social spending

Question 8

economic sanctions

Answer 8

• non military penalties imposed on foreign government in an attempt to modify its behavior
• often a first resort in times of crisis. by imposing sanctions country may change unfair practices like abuses of human rights.
  ex: mid 1980s sanctions on south africa that contributed to the demise of apartheid

Question 9

nuclear proliferation

Answer 9

the us and other countries have halt the spread of nuclear weapons. iran and NK are sought to have nuclear programs running so the U.S. imposed sanctions on them

Question 10

energy dependency

Answer 10

the us and other countries are dependent on many middle east countries for oil. more than 1/3 of the worlds recoverable reserves of oil lie in the middle east.