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Executive Agencies and American Foreign Policy

Executive Agencies and American Foreign Policy. Announcements: 1) Monday November 5th- Test 2 (25%) 2) November 12-16- 1-2 Page Outline And Bibliography (7%). 1) Bureaucratic Model of Politics 2) Office of Homeland Security. Bureaucratic Politics Model.

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Executive Agencies and American Foreign Policy

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  1. Executive Agencies and American Foreign Policy

  2. Announcements: 1) Monday November 5th- Test 2 (25%) 2) November 12-16- 1-2 Page Outline And Bibliography (7%)

  3. 1) Bureaucratic Model of Politics 2) Office of Homeland Security

  4. Bureaucratic Politics Model 1) Actors Constrained by their Roles 2) Foreign Policy is made by the Interaction of these Individuals constrained by their roles

  5. 1789- 3 Departments- State, War, and Treasury Bureaucracy- administration of government through departments and subdivisions managed by appointed officials Government- Departments- Divisions- SubDivisions

  6. Bureaucracies affect Foreign Policy 1) Shape the Goals of the Individuals working in the Departments How? 1) mission of the department 2) need to promote interests of department

  7. “where you stand depends on where you sit” Cuban Missile Crisis Bombing- JCS, Military Advisors Embargo- RFK, State Department

  8. Bureaucracies affect Foreign Policy 2) Roles of the Organization. What are they charged with doing? 3) interaction between Departments/Bargaining

  9. What decides when one Department is more likely to be heard? 1) Influence with the President 2) Credibility 3) Specialty of the Organization 4) The Task 5) Personal Characteristics

  10. Bargaining and Compromises Terrorism and BMD: Potential Bureaucratic Differences American Foreign Policy is based on the interaction and bargaining of the Executive Agencies

  11. Executive Agencies State Department 1781 Department Foreign Affairs 1789 Department of State

  12. Structure --Office of Secretary undersecretaries Bureaus- Assistant Secretary of States US Permanent Representative to the UN USAID

  13. DOS Abroad State has less of a role 1) funding 2) Bureauc unwieldy 3) Size 4) Culture 5) Secretary and Department

  14. National Security Council NSA 1947 System vs Staff

  15. System Prez VP Secty State Secty Defense DCI JCS

  16. Others: NSA US Rep to UN Atty General Scty Treasury Chief of Staff Others

  17. Staff

  18. Kennedy- First Real Use of NSA NSC overlaps with State- NSC more influential

  19. Department of Defense Secretary and UnderSecretary, Office of the Secretary Dept Army, Navy, and Air Force Unified Commanders Joint Chiefs of Staff

  20. 2 sources of policy-making 1) Secretary Defense 2) JCS-Chief of Staff Army Chief Naval Operations Chief Staff Air Force Commandant Marine Corps Chairman JCS

  21. 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act Problems 1) Policymaking- JCS and Secty Defense 2) Service vs InterAgency Solution of G-N 1) Chariman 2) Command Structure -- Prez-Secty Defense- Unified Commanders (For Combat)

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