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Foreign and Military Policy

Foreign and Military Policy. Brooke D., Wynne L., Reshma G., Katherine M., and Emily Z. Kinds of Foreign Policy. Policies affected by nature of policy President: Majoritarian Congress: Client politics Gov. provides aid to American businesses abroad Congress: interest groups

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Foreign and Military Policy

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  1. Foreign and Military Policy Brooke D., Wynne L., ReshmaG., Katherine M., and Emily Z.

  2. Kinds of Foreign Policy

  3. Policies affected by nature of policy President: Majoritarian Congress: Client politics Gov. provides aid to American businesses abroad Congress: interest groups Tariffs by business, unions

  4. President President is Commander in Chief President essentially controls defense Executive agreements do not need Senate approval People see president as head Powerful, but not by international standard

  5. Congress Congress puts in the funding, officially declare war Treaties ratified by Senate War powers act Congress oversees CIA Power is expanding

  6. Supreme Court Supreme court supports federal control over foreign policy

  7. Power Over Policy • Until the 20th century, the secretary of state carried out foreign policy • Now, goes to president & agencies • CIA • NSC: National Security council • Ongoing conflict with Secr. Of State These make up the DETAILS of policy

  8. Public v. Elite Outlines for policy WWII Care more about what directly benefits them • They follow the news, so opinion changes often • More liberal

  9. Worldview: Isolationism After WWI, didn’t want to get involved Containment After WWII, defense alliances in Europe Disengagement After Vietnam, things went wrong, so they tried to ignore foreign policy Human rights Helping the Albanians, Holocaust victims, Kosovo massacre

  10. Military Force Majoritarian view: Military should defend people and we split the bill Military-Industrial view: bloc of defense leaders and manufacturers

  11. Defense Budget

  12. Personnel No draft until WWII After Vietnam, they had a volunteer force (AVF) Eventually allowed women Very recently permitted open homosexuals

  13. Big Ticket Items COST OVERRUNS: When things end up costing a lot more than expected GOLD PLATING: they want the best of everything for their weaponry Small Ticket Items Ex. The coffee maker

  14. CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

  15. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1993 by President Bill Clinton 77 percent of Americans approve Washington post ABC News poll 2010 30 November 2010 Pub.L. 103-160 Service personnel may be discharged for homosexual conduct but not simply for being gay 77% support

  16. Support http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40782.pdf http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2010/12/broad-support-for-military-service-by-gays.html

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