Reference no: EM133709877

Questions:

1. Who is involved in making foreign policy?
2. How do the president and the bureaucracy interact in constructing foreign policy?
3. What are some of the causes of competition or disagreement among makers of foreign policy?
4. What formal powers put the president at the center of foreign policy? How might being the head of the executive branch give the president an informal advantage in making foreign policy?
5. How did the National Security Act reorganize the national security establishment? What do you think the idea behind the National Security Act was?
6. What are the responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security? Do you think it makes sense to have one department handle all those jobs? Why or why not?
7. How does Congress influence foreign policy? What formal powers does it have?
8. How have presidents attempted to deal with congressional involvement in international affairs?
9. What nongovernmental groups influence foreign policy and how?
10. Why might it be difficult for Congress to limit the president's power to send troops into combat, even though it is Congress that has the formal power to declare war?
11. Why do you think the American public is relatively uninterested in foreign affairs? What foreign policy issues do you think Americans care about the most?
12. What are isolationism and internationalism? How have they been incorporated into US foreign policy?
13. How did World War II change the direction of US international involvement?
14. What policies guided US action during the Cold War and the Vietnam War?
15. What was the Reagan Doctrine? How did Reagan put it into practice?
16. What was the Bush Doctrine?
17. How did military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq under George W. Bush begin? How has it recently ended in Afghanistan?
18. How have the media portrayed military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq?
19. What is meant by preemption? What are some the potential problems with a policy of preemption?
20. What was the justification for invading Afghanistan? How did the American media cover the war in Afghanistan?
21. What was the justification for invading Iraq? Why do you think the American media were reluctant to challenge the Bush administration's arguments for going to war in Iraq?