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The United States ' Foreign Policy

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As Kelly Anderson’s Foreign Policy Analyst, the following memo will address three areas of the United States’ foreign policy. The U.S. has gone through may transition when it comes to its foreign policy. The United States has been an isolationist, neutralist, and internationalist country from the year it was founded to now. The executive branch and the president apply their power to influence and change the nation’s foreign policy. There are specific departments within the Executive Office of the President (EOP) created to assist the president in his or her process. Political context and historical events have occurred to prove why intervening with another country’s issues does not benefit the national interest and why isolationism is a better system for this country. Hopefully, the memo will accomplish informing what the foreign policy is, was, and should be.
After the American Revolution, the states did not really have an official foreign policy. The government back then was mainly concerned on its regional interests and paid not much regards to their international affairs. The United States wanted nothing to do with other countries, especially Europe, to avoid getting into serious or unnecessary terms with other nations. Through the First Congress in 1789, the cabinet level Department of Foreign Affairs was created (Allen, 2009). Two months later, it was renamed it to what is currently known as the Department of States. The Department of States is the executive department
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