Foreign Policy

Posted: September 25th, 2015

1. How does the global environment shape foreign policy?
2. How has the system shaped policy since the onset of the cold war?
3. What are the roles of the president in foreign policy decision-making?
4. What forces provide constraints to the fulfillment of these roles?
5. Given the references below you’ve read provide an historical example of an event in which the President was forced to make a critical foreign policy decision. What limited his decision-making and how did this impact the outcome of the decision?