POL327Y5 Lecture Notes - Totalitarianism, Arab Spring, George W. Bush
Document Summary
Break it you buy it- iraq when you get rid of existing authority, your responsible for the area after. Crisis effecting us foreign policy- european union problems, region where the us has lots of investments, affects the us economy. Climate change: first time since 1984 debate didn"t mention about the environment. Foreign policy doesn"t win elections, obama moved so close to the centre, that romney would have to agree or go to the right to the point he would not get elected. This is why romney changed his position, to try to paint himself as a moderate instead of an extreme right winger. Public opinion: doesn"t affect output of foreign policy, but affects who gets elected as president. Why it"s not a good guide: very changeable, provide poor guide to policy makers, unstructured, incoherent. Meaning the role of the elites in the us, is to. Ideology: apparent in the debates, central point functions within a liberal mainstream.
