Foreign Policy

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Foreign Policy
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Polarity

• Unipolar
• Bipolar
• Multipolar
• Supportership

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Schools of IR

• Liberal Idealism
• (Classical) Realism
• Neo-Liberal Institutionalism
• Neo-Realism

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Levels of analysis

• I. Individual
• II. Domestic
• III. Systemic

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Diplomacy

• Archie Bunker Getting someone to do something
  they don't wanna by promising to do something you
  ain't got no intention of doing
• A more formal definition The total process by
  which states carry on political relations with
  each other settling conflicts among nations by
  peaceful means

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Actors on the global stage

• States
• IGOs
• UN system
• Regional
• NGOs
• TNCs

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Presidential Powers

• Commander-in-Chief
• Make treaties (with consent of Senate)
• Appoint ambassadors and officials (with consent
  of Senate)
• Receive/Refuse to Receive foreign ambassadors

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Congressional Powers

• Declare war
• Budget
• Raise, support and maintain the army and navy
• Call out the militia to repel an attack

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Informal Presidential Powers

• Executive Agreement
• Discretionary Fund
• Transfer Authority
• Special Envoys

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War Powers Resolution

• Notify Congress within 48 hours of committing
  troops to a foreign intervention
• Once deployed troops may not remain for more than
  60 days without affirmative Congressional
  approval (30 more days are allowed for safe
  removal)
• Congress must be consulted at every possible
  instance
• Passed in 1973 over Nixons veto

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Foreign Policy Bureaucracy

• Dept. State
• US AID
• Dept. Defense
• NSC
• Intelligence Community

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American Foreign Policy

• Washingtons Admonishment
• Monroe Doctrine
• Isolationism
• Globalism
• Cold War
• Roll back
• Containment
• Deterrence
• Détente
• Afghan and Iraq Wars