GOV 310L Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Nuclear Umbrella, Diplomatic Corps, Hard Power
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Foreign policy: unilateralism advocates for the us to make its own decisions on foreign policy, multilateralism seeks the cooperation of other countries in foreign actions. U. s grow quite dramatically in power (both the economic and military) during the industrial revolution (1800s) But fairly hesitant to become deeply involved in world politics: doing our own thing. Initially the u. s sees this as a european problem. But things are looking really bad, so we start sending money and weapons to uk. Three major fronts: pacific: us. vs. japan, eastern europe: germany vs. russia, western europe: germany vs. uk and us. Marshal plan: marshall is truman"s secretary of state, plan loans billions of dollars to help rebuild europe, us is doing to be a leader in world affairs, develop international organization (un & nato alliance, nuclear umbrella. Soft power: economic buying power (biggest economy in the world cooperation, diplomatic corps, loans to foreign governments.