FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Class representative, please get this reading papers passed out. Everyone will need a pencil for this activity.

WHAT IS FOREIGN?(NAME SOMETHING THAT YOU CONSIDER

FOREIGN)

Class representative, select three students.

Please write an approximation definition for foreign at the top of your reading page.

WHAT IS FOREIGN POLICY?

In our class election, you voted for a class representative and a class policy.

What do you think the difference is between a class policy and foreign policy?

WHAT IS DIPLOMACY?(EXPLICIT DEFINITION ALERT)

the work of maintaining good relations between governments of different countries

Please write the underlined words at the top of your reading page.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Please follow along with me as I read. When I repeat a sentence, the class needs to underline that sentence.

I move forward independently

A country’s leaders make a decision to deal with the problem alone instead of working with others.

Propose a treatyT

Two or more countries make a formal agreementto do something (or not do something).

N hold negotiations

A group of countries dealing with similar problems comes together to figure out possible solutions to the problem. The solutions would involve all the countries.

have a mediationM

Two countries having a problem ask a third country or

some other organization to help them solve the dispute.

Involves applying international law to the situation.

Diplomatic Strategies

Thousands Starving in

Isolatia!

Isolatia has been ruled by a cruel dictator for decades. Only one country in the world, Popula, has diplomatic relations with Isolatia. The dictator in Isolatia spends all of the country’s money on the military while the citizens live in poverty. The world doesn’t know much about Isolatia because the dictator won’t let reporters into the country. However, a few people have escaped and are telling stories about thousands of people dying of starvation because of a horrible famine inside Isolatia.

United States Foreign Policy:

Support democratic countries.

Cut diplomatic ties with states violating human

rights.

Help countries in a humanitarian crisis.

No military action unless it is absolutely necessary.

Smalland Under Threat

of Attack!

Smalland is a small, poor country that is friendly to the United States. Smalland is a democracy. Last year, Smalland discovered it is sitting on top of a huge oil reserve. Drilling this oil could raise tons of money for Smalland. But one of Smalland’s neighbors, Greedia, is ruled by a dictator who wants Smalland’s oil for his own country even though Greedia already has a lot of oil. The United States learns that Greedia is preparing its military to invade Smalland.

United States Foreign Policy:

Support democratic countries.

Support countries using their own natural resources to help

themselves.

• Build good relationships with

countries that have oil.

No military action unless it is absolutely necessary.

This next worksheet is your home prep for tonight. You may use any time you have left today to work on it with other students. I am only grading the front of

the worksheet.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY