Foreign Policy

Polarity

• Unipolar

• Bipolar

• Multipolar

• Supportership

Schools of IR

• Liberal Idealism

• (Classical) Realism

• Neo-Liberal Institutionalism

• Neo-Realism

Levels of analysis

• I. Individual

• II. Domestic

• III. Systemic

Diplomacy

• Archie Bunker: “Getting someone to do something they don't wanna by promising to do something you ain't got no intention of doing”

• A more formal definition: The total process by which states carry on political relations with each other; settling conflicts among nations by peaceful means

Actors on the global stage

• States

• IGO’s– UN system– Regional

• NGO’s

• TNC’s

Presidential Powers

• Commander-in-Chief

• Make treaties (with consent of Senate)

• Appoint ambassadors and officials (with consent of Senate)

• Receive/Refuse to Receive foreign ambassadors

Congressional Powers

• Declare war

• Budget

• Raise, support and maintain the army and navy

• Call out the militia to repel an attack

Informal Presidential Powers

• Executive Agreement

• Discretionary Fund

• Transfer Authority

• Special Envoys

War Powers Resolution

• Notify Congress within 48 hours of committing troops to a foreign intervention

• Once deployed troops may not remain for more than 60 days without affirmative Congressional approval (30 more days are allowed for “safe” removal)

• Congress must be consulted at “every possible instance”

• Passed in 1973 over Nixon’s veto

Foreign Policy Bureaucracy

• Dept. State– US AID

• Dept. Defense

• NSC

• Intelligence Community

American Foreign Policy

• Washington’s Admonishment• Monroe Doctrine• Isolationism• Globalism• Cold War:

– Roll back– Containment– Deterrence– Détente

• Afghan and Iraq Wars