GOV 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neoconservatism, Hard Power
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Yes: willingness for international cooperation & partnerships (vs. Support of democracy: clearly willing to use military force. Pulling back from bush"s primacy by withdrawing from iraq and toning down in afghanistan. But kinda no: reluctant to commit us forces globally. Emphasizes that countries targeted by us intervention must do much of the work themselves to solve their internal problems (ex: Prime ministers only hold their seats as long as they hold majority support, else a vote of no-confidence can be called to replace them. What changed: shift to terrorists and states harboring them as chief threat, defining thing for u. s. foreign policy, changes in public opinion: debate over security/liberty tradeoff, increased domestic security measures due to vulnerabilities, increased presidential authority. Yes (powers not explicitly stated in constitution are given to the president) Separation of powers and foreign policy: important to understand logic of splitting war-making powers between congress & pres, article i, section 8: congress shall have the power .
