POL S 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Defense Intelligence Agency, Boko Haram, Domino Theory
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Foreign policy is the formal interactions of the united states with other governments and people around the world. How do we protect consumers and businesses and the american economic system on the world stage. Politically this seems easy, but on a policy level it is dif cult. Should that be the us"s mission to turn other countries into mini-mes. Unilateral one in which the us says what they are going to do on their own. Bilateral combine efforts with one other nation. Multilateral multiple nations all agreeing (cafta, nafta, possibly the tpp, Short history of key transitions in us foreign policy (reference cliffsnotes) Monroe doctrine 1823 (europe; taking over the continent) Prior to this the us foreign policy was mainly based on survival of the country. President monroe created this as a foreign policy approach to europe. Basically said that the us didn"t want to take sides in the european wars. Spanish-american war 1898 (cuba, philippines, panama (1903), south america)