1. Foreign and Military Policy Brooke D, Wynne L, Reshma G, 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 20 th 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: 1.Isolationism –After WWI, didn’t want to get involved 2.Containment –After WWII, defense alliances in Europe 3.Disengagement –After Vietnam, things went wrong, so they tried to ignore foreign policy 4.Human rights –Helping the Albanians, Holocaust victims, Kosovo massacre

10. Military Force 1.Majoritarian view: Military should defend people and we split the bill 2.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 1.GOLD PLATING: they want the best of everything for their weaponry Small Ticket Items –Ex. The coffee maker

14. CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE

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.pdfhttp://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/ R40782.pdf http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumb ers/2010/12/broad-support-for- military-service-by-gays.htmlhttp://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumb ers/2010/12/broad-support-for- military-service-by-gays.html