In our increasingly globalized world, extensive international alliances have become a common means of diplomacy as well as achieving strategic goals.
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American Foreign Policy
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America has the good fortune of a remarkable founding, a geographically ideal location, and a strong security force spread throughout local, state...
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Throughout the Cold War, America’s foreign policy efforts were aimed definitively at the USSR. Washington filtered almost all military strategies through the main lens of containing Communism and the nuclear threat. Today, over 20 years since the...
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After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union officially disintegrated in 1991, Russia found itself thrust into a new era. A Communist dictatorship and government controlled economy were replaced with multi-party elections and private...
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In May of 1982, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at his alma mater in which he outlined his plan for national defense. It involved reducing the...
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While many would argue that the United States has never been...
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The USA PATRIOT [Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism] Act, was a bill written and passed in response to the terrorist attacks on the United...
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In twenty-first century American foreign policy, few countries are discussed with more fervor and fear than the nation of Iran. Radical differences over religion, politics, and human rights have caused the two nations to clash numerous times in...
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As a young nation in the 1800s, the United States sought to promote friendly relations with China. Undoubtedly eager to capitalize on the exotic exports China had to offer, the United States welcomed the potential for increased commerce between...
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Prior to WWII, Korea had spent several decades under repressive Japanese occupation. Following the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905), Russia and Japan debated splitting Korea into two nations. Just 40 years later a very...
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While terrorism was not new for many nation-states around the globe, the United States was brutally awakened to the enormity of the threat after the second attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 (9-11...
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The issue of foreign aid, specifically humanitarian aid, is hotly debated. Since the implementation of the Marshall Plan, which sought to rebuild Europe after the devastation of World War II, foreign aid has been a...
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While the debate over whether or not we should have invaded Iraq plagued the Bush Administration, it shifted for the Obama administration: When and how should the United States leave Iraq? In the midst of pressure from both sides, President Obama...
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Liberal foreign policy has had a sweeping effect on the international forum since Woodrow Wilson's presidency. Wilson, who grew up in the post-war South, was a pacifist, and...
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Directly following the 60th anniversary NATO summit in April of 2009, President Obama ...
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The non-interventionist movement, like many American traditions, has its roots in the Enlightenment. The Founders were strongly concerned about the potential threat that war and foreign alliances posed to the liberty...