POLI 4042 : Foreign Policy Test 2
Document Summary
Public opinion foreign policy: over time, public opinion has moved more toward an internationalist stance. Since wwii: 2 different periods of internationalism, 1) cold war consensus, immediately after wwii, consensus about: (a) who was the main threat to the u. s. and to. Global stability ussr & communism (spread of communism) U. s. why: vast majority of american public believed in this. Agreement about how to do it military containment: 2) post vietnam split, disagreement between two different groups, still both internationalist. (a) militant internationalists: believed in a more muscular foreign policy, using military means, unilateralism acting alone when necessary, east-west relations still most important. (b) cooperative internationalists: continue cooperative policies, such as d tente, multilateralism, north-south issues main problem comes from poverty & economic inequality (gives rise to domestic discontent and communism) Effect of vietnam war was not to increase. Vietnam syndrome hesitation to go to war without a clear path to victory and to get involved in a right way.
