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14 Cards in this Set
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Foreign Policy
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A nation's external goals and the techniques and strategies used to achieve them.
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Diplomacy
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The total process by which states carry on political relations with each other; settling conflicts among nations by peaceful means.
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Economic Aid
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Assistance to other nations in the form of grants, loans, or credits to buy the assisting nation's products.
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Foreign Policy Process
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The steps by which external goals are decided and acted on.
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Foreign Policy
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A nation's external goals and the techniques and strategies used to achieve them.
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Diplomacy
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The total process by which states carry on political relations with each other; settling conflicts among nations by peaceful means.
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Economic Aid
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Assistance to other nations in the form of grants, loans, or credits to buy the assisting nation's products.
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Foreign Policy Process
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The steps by which external goals are decided and acted on.
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National Security Policy
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Foreign and domestic policy designed to protect the independence and political and economic integrity of the United States; policy that is concerned with the safety and defense of the nation.
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Defense Policy
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A subset of national security policy. Generally defense policy refers to the set of policies that direct the scale and size of the US armed forces. Defense policy also considers the types of armed forces units we need to have, and the types of weapons that should be developed to maintain the nation's defenses.
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Moral Idealism
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A philosophy that sees all nations as willing to cooperate and agree on moral standards for conduct. In this perspective, nations should come together and agree to keep the peace, as President Woodrow Wilson proposed for the League of Nations
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Political Realism
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A philosophy that sees each nation acting principally in its own interest. Realists see the world as a dangerous place in which each nation strives for its own survival and interests. Foreign policy decisions must be based on a cold calculation of what is the best for the United States without regard for morality.
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Cold War
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The ideological, political, and economic impasse that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War 2
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Most-Favored-Nation Status
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A status granted by an international treaty by which each member nation must treat other members at least as well as it treats the country that receives its most favorable treatment.
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