Unilateralism

The National Military Strategy emphasizes the recognition of human, cultural, and political continuities of armed conflict xxxx. This strategy calls for forces possessing cross-cultural capabilities that permit them to operate effectively among populations. Inherent in this vision is a mastery of language, cultural awareness, and an in-depth knowledge of peoples, political systems, religion, demographics, infrastructure, and a host of other factors that can vary significantly by country and…

Still, change as history has proven over time, is not easy. Certain world views or attitudes will become more acceptable to the people of the world while others will be rejected. For instance, the Bush era was focused on unilateralism while Obama years have leaned toward multilateralism. There is reason for the world and the UN to learn from past history with a recognition that history can be misinterpreted or misused as a guide for settling political objectives. Anytime the…

The Presidency has several ways of bypassing Congress that are upheld by courts to certain extents. For over 70 years the US presidents have repeatedly used these methods to put forward agreements that benefit the country and have less chance to get done if done with the Senate’s approval mainly because of the collective action problems Congress, especially the Senate, faces. In 2015, the current President, Barack Obama, signed the Paris Agreement on climate change that requires countries to…

unilateralism is really just a new form of American isolationism (as Cited in Dunn, 2005, p. 246). Bear Braumoeller (2010) is quite straightforward, stating that isolationism in the U.S. is simply a myth (p. 1). Although Braumoeller’s idea may not be sufficiently rigorous nor historically responsible, this indicates the convoluted denotations of isolationism. Through history, as what above has showed, persisted definition debate over isolationism seemly never ends even for scholars. Not to…

How do Exclusively Executive War Powers impact United States Politics? In terms of US war powers, it is well known that Congress exclusively holds the power in the Constitution to declare war. However, in more recent times, the Presidents have found ways to declare military action without the input of Congress, starting in the Cold War Era and extending into today’s military campaigns. In this paper, I will present current and former positions on the War Powers issue, and explain how in modern…

The United States is a country of immigrants and allows refugees the chance to start a new life. Most recently, Syria’s Civil War and the group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) are causing Syrian’s to leave the country. The people of Syria want to escape the fear and violence. The United States has offered protection and freedom to Syrians. This paper will explain why the United States refugee policies have changed after terrorist’s attacks linked to the middle east. The events of…

The Clinton (Democrat) administration’s military intervention foreign policy is in the ‘half-out’ category due to Clinton’s policies of “hegemony on the cheap” (“The Quiet Clinton Era of the 1990s: A Liberal Internationalist Strategy for Unipolarity?”) which emphasized multilateralism and avoided conflicts in which the U.S. had little to no interests, but wanted to “preserve an American-centered order” (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). Clinton wanted to maintain the status quo of the American unipolar…

Reasons of US invasion in Iraq and its Consequences The United States spends $648 billion of the total federal spending on the military. The U.S. has its military presence all around the world, and it is best known for their startle foreign policy. In addition, The Unites States has been involved in several political overthrows such as the intervention of Iraq. An invasion mandated by President George Bush in 2003 causing the death of 4,486 U.S. soldiers and a potential cost of up to $6…

The past decades have witnessed a great deal of workplace change in Australia and worldwide, for some this change has been an advantageous one, whereas for others not so much. Many of these changes have been of an innovative nature, where terms such as “high commitment’, “high involvement’ and “high performance’ work systems have entered the world of employment relations. (Russell D. Lansbury University, 2000) Throughout the past surveys had indicated that employees all over the world did not,…

1. If the owner of an apartment complex that caters to KU students offered to make a $10,000 dollar contribution to the Lawrence suicide hotline, if I reduced the number of parking places and benefit the KU bus line the effects could range from very small to very large. If I give into the owner of the apartment complex the suicide hotline has more money and could save more lives. However the students would loose their parking spaces and the apartment complex would become more appealing to them…