Tools of Foreign Policy Handou

Tools of Foreign Policy Handout Tools of Foreign Policy ● ● ● ● Diplomacy- The conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations. Foreign Aid- Assistance given by a government to other nations. It can include military and economic aid. Sanctions- Actions taken by governments to punish other nations. These can include diplomatic, economic, military and cultural sanctions. Military Action- The deployment and use of military forces to influence foreign policy. EXPLORATION: View each of the clips and describe how the tools of foreign policy are being used and what is the goal of these actions. Video Clip Description of the tool(s) used and how it/they are being used. What is the purpose of these actions? Clip 1: President Trumps Speaks at the G-20 Summit (1:43) The tool being used is foreign sanctions. President Trump is calling out the nations belonging to NATO to pay off their dept to the U.S and called out nations like Poland. Donald Trump accused steel producers in China and Europe of dumping and threatened them with antidumping duty. To push other nations to act and help towards solving the issues that are affecting everyone globally. Clip 2: Woodrow Wilson during the Treaty of Versailles (1:20) The tool being used is diplomacy. A meeting between multiple nations to discuss the aftermath of WWI and how every nation needed to contribute and impose rules for prosperity To find the best way to recover prosperity and start reparations after WWI. Clip 3: Obama and Foreign Policy in Asia (2:54) The tool being used is foreign aid as President Obama describes the agreement made with China to become allied nations and provide goods for each other. Build alliances with other power nations to build global and national well being and receive aid and more goods. Clip 4: Bush and the RussiaGeorgia Conflict (4:13) The tool being used is Military action which was taken to provide aid for Georgia citizens after the conflict with Russia and asking them to respect their agreement and let the aid pass through. Also, diplomacy and foreign policy To inform the country of the military action being taken and how Russia have tried to invade Georgia. Clip 5: Foreign Aid and USAID (5:01) Diplomacy through negotiating To discuss the reason for foreign and USAID and budgetary impacts of providing foreign aid Clip 6: North Korea Sanctions Bill (3:04) Sanctions and Military actions To strengthen the enforcement of these intermediate areas and international sanction's regime against facilitators imposing North Korea with the goal of achieving mandatory sanctions and fines a nuclear free Korean peninsula. Clip 7: House Sanctions The purpose is that Russia doesn’t get any sanction relief and Democrats on U.S. Policy Toward Russia (2:44) has to pay for their damage Clip 8: U.S Sanctions on Japan Prior to World War II(1:00) Sanctions Clip 9: U.S. Troops in Bosnia (1:41) Military action and Diplomacy The purpose is to stop and punish Japan for taking aggressive actions prior to WWII The purpose is to keep peace and provide a separation and enforce it and to reach an agreement and remove troops from Bosnia. Clip 10: Vice President Pence Announces Turkish Ceasefire in Syria (3:38) Sanctions, military action and foreign aid The purpose was to stop Moammar Qadhafis repressive action over the Libyan people and to promote peace APPLICATION: Using the information for the video clips, complete the following assignment. Using the notes from the handout, develop a list of at least two general goals of U.S. foreign policy. Define these goals and provide examples from the video clips to explain how the U.S. uses these tools of foreign policy to accomplish these goals. Goal 1: The aims of US foreign policy are to assist oppressed peoples and to prevent one nation from becoming too powerful. This is achieved by balancing the geopolitical interests of competing states, and by supporting democratic institutions as they develop. Goal 2: The US has strong international interests in both promoting democracy and protecting human rights. It is therefore in the United States' security interests for governments such as those of India, Russia, Nigeria, and Israel to be free from oppression and to provide a climate where democracies can be developed Conclusion: Pick one of the tools of foreign policy and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the U.S. government using this tool. Foreign aid is one of several strategies available to policymakers for achieving their foreign policy objectives. International aid also gives the donor country access to and influence over other countries' domestic and foreign policies. Foreign aid is viewed as an important tool of US foreign policy, which is increasingly linked to national security policy by US leaders and policymakers. Foreign aid is a useful instrument. It enables governments to work together on a wide variety of issues. Drawbacks of foreign aid could include placing the United States in deeper debt or wasting money that might have been utilized to aid people in the United States. When the receiving government reduces its participation to a project or program as a result of external funding, this is known as fungibility. If a donor provides foreign help to establish a hospital, the recipient government might divert the funding to other projects. As a result, foreign aid frees up government funds for other purposes, such as the military, nonproductive government consumption for vanity projects, or tax cuts for the rich.