U.S. Foreign Policy Goals and the Actions Taken to Meet Them

1. U.S. Foreign Policy Goals and the Actions Taken to Meet Them What Actions, Carrots and Sticks does the U.S. use to achieve its foreign policy goals?

2. 1. Map indicating states and territories and their diplomatic relations with the U.S.* Blue represents the United States.     * Green represents nations with which the US has diplomatic relations.     * Red represents nations with which the US does not have diplomatic relations.      * Yellow represents nations that are disputed areas.

3. Who Makes Foreign Policy? • Citizens Groups • Congress • Council on Foreign Relations • Defense Department • Executive Branch • Institutes and Think Tanks • Brookings Institute, Center for American Progress, etc • NATO • State Department • United Nations • United Nations Security Council

4. US FOREIGN POLICY GOALS CAN BE PLACED IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES National Security Economic Ideological Humanitarian

5. Political Actions Used to Meet US Foreign Policy Goals Political Actions taken to meet foreign policy Goals: • Created the Department of Homeland Defense. Train military to combat terrorism. • Warn foreign nations who harbor terrorists that they risk invasion unless they stop supporting terrorism. • Call for negotiations between two warring countries that risk destabilizing an entire region like the Middle East

6. Economic Actions taken to meet Foreign Policy Goals: • Freeze the bank accounts of terrorist organizations and the those organizations that help fund terrorism. • Mount an embargo or trade sanctions/barriers on a country labeled “terrorist friendly. EX. Iran, North Korea, Iraq • Place nations on Most Favored Nation status in order to better trade relations with countries that share U.S. values or might one day i.e. China

7. Ideological ways to meet US foreign policy goals: • Support those groups or nations with similar values willing to combat the nations labeled terrorist or enemy by declaring that they are friendly nations and/ or providing economic support. • Recognize and support organizations that support democracy in foreign nations. • Declare the legitimacy or illegitimacy of a foreign country’s democracy.

8. Military Actions Taken to meet the US foreign policy Goals • The US builds military bases to protect friendly nations near enemy nations • The US blockades the ships of an enemy nation • The US enforces a no-fly zone denying the ability for another country to launch aircrafts. • The US overthrows the government of a hostile nation.

9. Diplomatic Ways the US Meets its foreign policy Goals • Treaties signed to reduce weapons of mass destruction or chemical weapons such as the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) signed between Russia and the U.S. • License/forbid the selling or possession of arms to specific countries. For example, the US and UN placed sanctions on Iraq between 1992 and 2002. • U.S. and United Nations call upon International Atomic Energy Agency of the UN to inspect countries unwilling to follow previously signed treaties. • THE US participates in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to meet its and its allies national security goals.

10. Ways the US Meets its Foreign Policy Goals Diplomatic Actions: • Use of Peace Corps or foreign aid (US AID) to prove Americans are ‘nice’ and make it clear to nation that it will lose aid if it does not abide. • Break diplomatic ties by closing an embassy in a nation that no longer supports democracy and free trade such as Iran. • Warn US citizens not to visit a nation that does not support human rights laws. • Promotes fair elections. • Embarrass nation by publicly scolding their actions or using media to broadcast directly to the country’s people about what is taking place.

11. Start Treaty (A treaty to end nuclear proliferation between the USSR and the US)- How does this benefit the common good?

12. 10. Member Nations of NATO