PUP-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Edward Snowden, Homeland Security
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Concepts: foreign policy, defense policy, foreign aid, united naions, department of homeland security, Government acions that afects u. s. naional security, economic, and poliical goals. More reliance on professionals ( elites : less transparency, less public input. Defense pracices: weapons systems; deterrence, military acion. Military goals, planning, and acions by the government. Key actors: naional security council (domesic advisers, joint chiefs of staf (military advisers, defense department, secretary of state. Defense spending as a percent of federal budget: 1960: 52, 2009: 57% President eisenhower feared the military industrial complex huge part of economy. How does giving foreign aid beneit the u. s: somalia, afghanistan/pakistan, israel. Created in 1945 with 50 other naions: now, 192 member states. Goal: promote cooperaion; manage the efects of globalizaion. Ailiated agencies: world bank-gives loans for speciic projects that help countries economically, internaional monetary fund-gives emergency loans to other countries if they have problems with their currency, world trade organizaion-lower barriers to trade (1995)
