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| Chapter 18: Foreign Policy and Democracy |
| What Government Does and Why It Matters |
| A consistent influence on the making of American foreign policy is the president as “coordinator in chief,” who strategically deploys an array of instruments and coordinates an array of instruments and officials to conduct foreign policy. |
| 1. According to the National Security Strategy of the United States www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/sectionI.html released by the Bush administration in September 2002 and updated in 2006, what were the goals of America’s international strategy during the Bush administration? |
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2. Choose one of these goals and explore the administration’s plan for reaching that goal at: www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/
Which goal did you choose? |
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| 3. In your own words, how did the Bush administration plan to meet that goal? What successes did the administration see in this area in since 2002? What did it see as the remaining challenges? |
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4. One tool presidents use in foreign policy is public diplomacy—the representation of a government to other foreign governments.
Looking at the public statements of the U.S. Department of State Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs www.state.gov/r/us/, what initiatives or messages have the president and his staff used to meet the goals of the national security strategy? |
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| 5. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project http://pewresearch.org/pubs/627/karen-hughes, how have these efforts in public diplomacy been received? |
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| 6. What do you think the United States should do to improve its image abroad? Is this improvement something the country needs to do? Why or why not? |
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