Kaufman believes that globalization makes foreign policy a crucial piece in American politics because the government often forgets the impact it has by choosing whether or not to intervene in other countries’ affairs. He explains how the US government has a loose foreign policy and fragile concept of national interest; for example, the government chose to invade Iraq to pursue the War on Terror, however the US did not intervene in the Syrian Civil War, or the Rwandan Genocide. (Kaufman pg.14) Why didn’t the United States intervene? If the country declares the threat of armed forces to fight inhumane terrorist acts, can it pick and choose what countries to use military force in? During Lecture 2, Professor Datta pointed to the theory of “Dog-Eat-Dog”
