Foreign Policy

According to Chapter 17.1, what are the four main goals of U.S. foreign policy?

What term describes the foreign policy approach where a country does not permit other countries to sell goods and services within its borders or charges very high tariffs to do so?

What does the concept of 'balance of power' in foreign policy mean?

Which international organization, described as the 'foremost' in the world today, includes the General Assembly and the Security Council as its main institutional bodies?

What is the term for nonmilitary tools used to influence another country, such as economic sanctions?

According to the text, what was the total U.S. foreign aid budget for 2013, and what percentage of the entire federal budget did it represent?

Which piece of legislation, passed in 1973 over a presidential veto, was Congress's attempt to reassert itself in war-making?

What is the main requirement of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 concerning presidential military action?

What is the difference between a treaty and a sole executive agreement?

According to the text, what percentage of international agreements entered into by the United States today are executive agreements rather than treaties?

What is the 'two presidencies thesis' as described by Professor Aaron Wildavsky?

What foreign policy school of thought advocates that a country should stay out of foreign entanglements and keep to itself?

Which U.S. president is cited as a classic example of a liberal internationalist for his effort to create a League of Nations?

What is the core value of neoconservatism in foreign policy?

The U.S. foreign policy goal of limiting the spread of communism during the Cold War was known as what?

Which of these foreign policy outputs is considered a 'broadly focused' output?

According to Table 17.1, what is the Senate's specific role in the treaty-making process?

Why do individual House and Senate members often focus less on foreign policy matters?

Who is the president's top uniformed military officer?

What event is cited as a key reason for the end of the Cold War and the shift in the U.S. foreign policy landscape?

In the context of the Iran Nuclear Agreement, what type of foreign policy output did the president use to finalize the pact?

What is the primary reason that sharply focused foreign policy outputs, like the use of military force, are often led by the president?

Which two Senate committees are most relevant for members interested in foreign policy?

How did the end of the Cold War affect the 'two presidencies' thesis?

What is the difference between Idealism and Realism in international relations?

When was the United Nations (UN) created, according to the 'Milestone' feature box?

Which of the following is NOT listed as a 'unique challenge' in U.S. foreign policy?

What is a congressional-executive agreement?

The phrase 'Partisanship stops at the water’s edge' implies what?

The U.S. military debacle in which country during the 1960s and 1970s caused many to rethink the strategy of containment and led to the rise of neoconservatism?

Which of these is NOT a broadly focused foreign policy output?

How many countries are permanent members of the UN Security Council?

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is given as an example of what foreign policy type?

Who is responsible for developing the president's yearly budget proposal, including funding for foreign policy agencies?

What is the primary characteristic that distinguishes a broadly focused foreign policy output from a sharply focused one?

According to the text, which foreign policy school of thought is associated with a preemptive military strategy?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed after which major global conflict?

What is the primary role of the U.S. trade representative?

The Bricker Amendment was a congressional reaction to President Eisenhower's overuse of which foreign policy tool?

What is the main foreign policy argument of neo-isolationism?

The Camp David Accords, negotiated by President Carter in 1978, are an example of which type of sharply focused foreign policy output?

Why has the foreign policy gap between the president and Congress narrowed in the post-Cold War era?

Which of these is NOT a formal power of the president in the foreign policy realm according to Table 17.1?

What is selective engagement as a school of foreign policy thought?

Which U.S. president's visit to China in the early 1970s is cited as the beginning of an era of open diplomatic relations?

What type of foreign policy output is the reauthorization of agencies like the Department of State every three to five years?

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is used as an example of what kind of foreign policy output?

In the Gallup poll cited in Chapter 17.3, what percentage of respondents in early 2016 named a foreign policy topic as the 'most important problem' in the U.S.?

What is the primary function of the National Security Council (NSC)?

What is a major reason given in the text for the decline of isolationist sentiment after World War II?