Why is US foreign policy pulled to extreme of either doing too much or nothing at all? Give Examples.
The inability of U.S. foreign policy to stay effective is because the United States is trapped into a very passive commitment in which America has to continuously support its alliances that are not producing anything good to America as promised. Foreign assistance, which is supposed to improve the well-being of recipient countries, goes directly to small collations. America, with the fear of losing its own interests and benefits, may intervene on behalf of the regime and support the status quo, contributing to a commitment trap. Countries receiving foreign aid and military assistance have no incentives to build an effective bureaucracy or judicial …show more content…
This problem is in part due to the institutional discrepancy of recipient countries. Though the United States imported advanced institutions and standardized social ethnics to these countries, the extreme inequality in Philippine and the lack of social contract in South Vietnam were too far away from maturity to nurture any hospital soil for possible social improvement. Due to the social barriers, transplanting enlightened U.S. institutions to foreign soil was not necessarily translated into wealth-enhancing changes but backlashes. Hence, it is unreasonable to think that developing nations can adopt the same institutions as those in fully developed nations. To achieve a substantive social improvement, social conditions of a nation should be highlighted and studied before applying democratic institutions to that nation. Furthermore, America's political leaders must learn to manage the risks to long-term security posed by democratic narcissism. We must help other nations and their populations understand our policies and values by adjusting our actions. The possible solution here is to mediate the democratic practices in U.S. domestic policies and the democratic aspirations of the world's emerging populations for future institutional transplants. According to Hilton Root, the challenge for U.S. global leadership is to discover an intellectual basis for foreign engagement that allows future foreign policy to be steered by America's moral compass and that leads a community of nations toward enhanced global
The inability of U.S. foreign policy to stay effective is because the United States is trapped into a very passive commitment in which America has to continuously support its alliances that are not producing anything good to America as promised. Foreign assistance, which is supposed to improve the well-being of recipient countries, goes directly to small collations. America, with the fear of losing its own interests and benefits, may intervene on behalf of the regime and support the status quo, contributing to a commitment trap. Countries receiving foreign aid and military assistance have no incentives to build an effective bureaucracy or judicial …show more content…
This problem is in part due to the institutional discrepancy of recipient countries. Though the United States imported advanced institutions and standardized social ethnics to these countries, the extreme inequality in Philippine and the lack of social contract in South Vietnam were too far away from maturity to nurture any hospital soil for possible social improvement. Due to the social barriers, transplanting enlightened U.S. institutions to foreign soil was not necessarily translated into wealth-enhancing changes but backlashes. Hence, it is unreasonable to think that developing nations can adopt the same institutions as those in fully developed nations. To achieve a substantive social improvement, social conditions of a nation should be highlighted and studied before applying democratic institutions to that nation. Furthermore, America's political leaders must learn to manage the risks to long-term security posed by democratic narcissism. We must help other nations and their populations understand our policies and values by adjusting our actions. The possible solution here is to mediate the democratic practices in U.S. domestic policies and the democratic aspirations of the world's emerging populations for future institutional transplants. According to Hilton Root, the challenge for U.S. global leadership is to discover an intellectual basis for foreign engagement that allows future foreign policy to be steered by America's moral compass and that leads a community of nations toward enhanced global