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Warm-up:
What is foreign policy?
a
policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national
objectives
US Foreign Policy goals--
"
to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community."Slide2
21
st
-Century United States
Foreign Policy Slide3
Factors that shape Foreign Policy
Economics
Multi-national corporations
Economic power elite
Military industrial complex
IdeologyVision of national greatness—America’s missionRacial hierarchyExtremely anti-revolutionaryUnilateralism—acting alone and independent
Domestic politics
Most Americans are ill-informed
Nation of immigrants
Can’t appear weak
Rise of Imperial President
Bypass checks & balances
Violates foundation of American government
Resource wars
oilSlide4
Policy up to 2000
Isolationism was practice throughout 19
th
and 20
th
century except during:War with Spain 1898World War IWorld War IIAfter WWII, the Cold War began and US foreign policy was containment: containing communism and not letting it spreadAt the end of the Cold War (1991), US foreign policy was all about nation building—until Sept. 11, 2001Slide5
U.S. Military Intervention in the
1990s – Nation Building
Many Americans favored economic support for foreign countries.
Just
as many feared lending military support to embattled nations.
But Clinton felt several conflicts demanded U.S intervention.
1994 Haiti-US troops to stop civil turmoil
1995 Bosnia-US troops to stop ethnic cleansing of Muslims & Croats
1992 Somalia-US troops to stop civil war but failed to stop itSlide6
Fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians became more
violent
In 2000, Clinton brought Palestinian leader
Yasir
Arafat and Israeli leader Ehud Barak to Camp David to broker a peace agreement between them.
It was not successful.
Conflict in the Middle East increased in the 1990s.
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The U.S. itself became a target
of Middle Eastern extremists
.
A terrorist group called al Qaeda exploded a bomb in the World Trade Center in New York City in 1993.
The group also set off bombs killing more 225 people at American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
In 2000, they attacked the USS
Cole,
a warship anchored off Yemen, killing 17 American sailors.
American leaders learned that fighting
terrorism would be extremely difficult.
In 2001, al Qaeda terrorist attack on US soil, killing
Almost 3000 people and wounding over 6000 more.Slide8
Policy: War on Terror
bin Laden formed al Qaeda to try and end American involvement in the Middle East
Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda directly responsible for the 9-11 attack on World Trade Center towers in New York
Taliban government supported al Qaeda & bin Laden in Afghanistan
US overthrew Taliban and freed Afghanistan
Bin Laden escapes in mountains and US pursues him and his al Qaeda forces in the regionMay 2011…bin Laden caught & killedSlide9
America’s Foreign Policy
In the United States “national interests”
Democracy
Economics/Trade
Big business profit---outsourcing
2010-advancing American interestsSecurity of American peopleGrowing U.S. economySupport for our valuesAn international order that can address 21
st
-Century challengesSlide10
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