1. Journal #1
How do you want other people to perceive the United States? How can you promote that image?

2. Lesson 38
What are the challenges of the participation of the United States in world affairs?

3. Purpose
This lesson highlights some of the aspects of Americans’ participation in the international arena.

4. Objectives
Identify the constitutional responsibilities of the three branches of the national government in shaping the involvement of the United States in world affairs.
Describe globalization and to identify some of the challenges that globalization poses for citizenship and participation in world affairs.
Evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues involving globalization and improving the image of the United States abroad.

5. International Engagement
Thucydides and Machiavelli agreed that strong countries inevitably go to war and will defeat the weak.
International relations today involve delicate interactions among all of the independent states
How can we help France when their revolutions is so bloody?
Who do we help? Britain or France?
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none” - Thomas Jefferson

6. How the Constitution Provides for the United States’ Role in the World
The need to deal with other nations was a factor for calling the Constitutional Convention, and eventually for our Constitution.
Congress is given the power to:
Regulate commerce among foreign nations and with the Indian tribes
Declare war
Raise and support armies and provide for a navy
Define and punish piracies and felonies
Ratify Treaties

7. How the Constitution Provides for the United States’ Role in the World
The president is given the power to:
Negotiate treaties
Act as commander in chief
Appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls
Receive ambassadors and other public ministers
The Supreme Court is given the power to:
Exercise original jurisdiction over cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls
Exercise appellate jurisdiction over admiralty and maritime cases.

8. International Law
The purpose of international law is to create and maintain international order.
Often reflects four overarching ideals
Equality of sovereign nation-states
Noninterference in the affairs of other nations
No use of force or threat of force
Respect for human rights
International law depends on the willingness of nations to obey it.

9. How International Organizations Help to Maintain International Order
After WWI and WWII we (as a world) created a large scale international organization to maintain international order through collective security.
Individuals and organizations are not eligible for membership
Members of the U.N. are obligated to:
Aid member states under attack
Promote friendly relations among nations
Resolve international disputes peacefully
Encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
Provide financial support
NAFTA, WTO, NATO

10. How Americans Influence International Relations
Americans indirectly influence American foreign policy and the nation’s international economic decisions
Voting, lobbying, and contacting national officials
Joining NGOs
Traveling, exercising citizen diplomacy, and participating in international education
Making informed consumer decisions

11. Globalization Trade and commerce Worker migration Capital Information
Multinational corporations often have budgets bigger than those of some countries countries.
Worker migration
Capital
Information