POLI 1501 Lecture 10: Class notes
14 Jan 2018
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Link to class website: paper deadlines online, why study american foreign policy, security, not that important in 1990 elections, generally the president gives a couple minute broad topics. If they act against our interests we can always vote them out of office: generally, it is for social policies or other domestic policies. More difficult for fo(cid:396)eig(cid:374) poli(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause people k(cid:374)o(cid:449) less a(cid:271)out it. European allies are typically high, middle east and russia are low. Concise history of american foreign policy: put weekly review questions on calendar, revolutionary war, sets the tempo for american foreign policy. Us founded on freedoms from unjust governments: goals, trade. Us viewed trade as a way to develop economically. Independence (alliance with france: political independence, us wanted to avoid being entangled in foreign alliances. Many feared that these entanglements would jeopardize american liberties; conflict tends to produce central governments.
