Paul Frazier

American Foreign Policy

Examining the Facts

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Produktbeschreibung

This authoritative work provides students with the tools to explore the wide range of factors that shape American foreign policy, as well as a fact-based approach to examining partisan debates about national security priorities, economic prosperity, and human rights. The book distills a complex topic into 30 essential questions about American foreign policy. Each question is answered in the affirmative or the negative. The answer is then explained in greater factual detail, presenting opposing points of view on the specific topic covered by each question. Primary sources, governmental actors, and top experts in the field are the foundations of this fact-checking exercise. Rather than a specific ideological approach to the topic, this book presents the facts and the arguments surrounding the specifics of American foreign policy. Each title in the Contemporary Debates series examines the veracity of controversial claims or beliefs surrounding a major political/cultural issue in the United States. They do so to give readers a clear and unbiased understanding of current issues by informing them about falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions-and confirming the factual validity of other assertions-that have gained traction in America's political and cultural discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781440879418
• ISBN-10: 1440879419
• Artikelnr.: 68770228

Autorenporträt

Paul Frazier, PhD, is Professor of History at Gateway Community and Technical College, Kentucky, USA

Inhaltsangabe

American Foreign Policy 1: The United States and the World Q1. Is it true
that the United States contributes more to NATO than any other single
nation? Q2. Does membership in the United Nations enhance American foreign
policy? Q3. Does the United States maintain military bases all over the
world? Q4. Does collective security work? Q5. Does the United States
support or have alliances with non-democratic states? 2: Foreign Policy
Concepts Q6. Is the Thucydides Trap real? Q7. Do the concepts of power
vacuum and balance of power still drive foreign policy? Q8. When is soft
power most frequently used to address foreign policy challenges? Q9. When
is hard power most frequently used to address foreign policy challenges?
Q10. What are the central theories for international relations? 3: Foreign
Policy Motives Q11. Does the United States foreign policy include
preemptive warfare? Q12. What is just war theory and how does it apply to
American foreign policy? Q13. Is American foreign policy primarily
concerned with national security? Q14. Does the United States give foreign
aid to other countries? Q15. Does American foreign policy involve nation
building? 4: Foreign Policy in History Q16. Has the United States been
mostly an isolationist country? Q17. Did American foreign policy change
dramatically after 9/11? Q18. What was the Bush Doctrine, and did it
achieve its objectives? Q19. What was the Obama Doctrine, and did it
achieve its objectives? Q20. Was America's Cold War Containment Policy
successful? 5: Foreign Policy in a Democratic Society Q21. Does modern day
news media influence American foreign policy? Q22. Does public opinion play
a role in America's foreign policy? Q23. Does the American president have
greater authority in foreign policy than in domestic policy? Current and
Future Issues in American Foreign Policy Q24. Is China a threat to the
United States? Q25. Is Russia a threat to the United States? Q26. What
factors have shaped U.S. involvement in Africa's wars? Other Factors in
American Foreign Policy Q27. Does concern for human rights drive American
foreign policy? Q28. Do environmental factors like climate change play a
role in foreign policy? Q29. Does farming and agriculture have an impact on
foreign policy? Q30. What role does economics play in foreign policy?