Exam 17: Foreign Policy

Two roommates, Greg and Derek, are trying to divide up a nine-slice pizza. Greg, a baseball fan, agrees to let Derek have five slices of the pizza in return for their apartment's TV being tuned to the Pittsburgh Pirates game that evening. In what concept are Greg and Derek engaging?

Along with the Department of State, the Department of ________ is at the center of the permanent staff within the government devoted to foreign policy.

To deal with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1991, the United States sought out support from other countries to form a grand coalition before invading Iraq. What term best describes the United States' actions here?

Which principle of American foreign policy asserts that the Western Hemisphere is exclusively within the United States' sphere of influence?

Which federal agency has primary responsibility for gathering intelligence on activities in foreign countries?

The U.S. government negotiates a treaty with New Zealand involving the trading of sheep. Which government official would be most directly involved in the formulation and signing of this treaty?

________ power is the use of nonmilitary pressure, such as economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, or public shaming, against another country.

The French invasion of Mexico in 1862 is contrary to the ________.

Groups like the United Nations and the World Trade Organization are bodies that are created to help stimulate what type of foreign policy tool?

Which of the following terms best describes a state seeking the cooperation and coalitional support of other countries in times of foreign policy crises?

Which American foreign policy action is consistent with isolationism?

Which refers to peaceful negotiations among countries?

Which of the following types of foreign aid is clearly designed to promote the interests of the government who uses it?

The ________ is the United States' chief diplomat, second to the ________.

________ is a philosophy of international politics based on the assumption that countries primarily seek to increase their own power relative to other countries.

How do the president and Congress share authority over American foreign policy? How does the U.S. Constitution apportion responsibility between the executive and the legislature? How has the constitutional balance shifted over time in response to practical considerations? Which branch of government has the upper hand in foreign policy making? Why?

The set of government actions that affect a country's relationships with other countries is called ________ policy.

The United States, seeing that Latveria has the ability to develop biological weapons, sends a small team in to neutralize the Latverian government and help maintain world order. What philosophy of international politics best describes the American action here?

What is the Bush Doctrine? What events and what major foreign policy choices in the George W. Bush administration motivated the Bush Doctrine? To what extent has the Obama administration diverged from the Bush Doctrine, and in what ways has it upheld the foreign policies of its predecessor?

________ is a philosophy of international politics based on the assumption that countries have common interests and that they can cooperate effectively.