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    theories, each in which try to explain the role of America in foreign policy and world politics. This essay will work to explain the purpose of theories in foreign policy and the limits they have when they are applied to particular policies. President Barack Obama, for example, has come under sustained criticism regarding his foreign policy. Many have wondered whether Obama is a “realist” or “idealist” with his policy decisions. His foreign policy fails to strictly reflect either theoretical concept of

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    combining general strikes, demonstrations and government crises; cite{ghosn2011domestic} uses demonstrations and government crises as separate variables; cite{Brunetti1998uncertainty} use number of changes in the national constitution as a measure of policy uncertainty; cite{Roe2011politicalinstability} use the government crisis measure. My constructed variables build on ideas developed in these prior studies and adapts the measures to better fit the volatility concepts I seek to capture with this measure

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    • Foreign policy definition: a set of political goals that aims to outline how a particular state will interact with others • Beach (2012): Foreign policy actions can be undertaken using a variety of different instruments, ranging from adopting declarations, making speeches, negotiating treaties, giving other states economic aid, engaging in diplomatic activity such as summits, and the use of military force • No matter which instruments are used, the primary objective of states in outlining their

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    were two people given the job of being the President of these United States of America, George Washington, the first president, and John Adams, the second president. Between the years of 1789 – 1800, the United States of America was a very young country who was searching for its identity, a leader, and an economic basis on which to run the country. Before, 1789, when George Washington took office, the Constitution of the United States was a very new document. It had just been ratified 1 year earlier

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    S. pursues a unilateralist foreign policy since post WWII. The U.S. has an interest of “maintaining geopolitical stability is predicated on its being a superpower with global economic interests. The U.S. aims to act unilaterally by maintaining a force structure that can conduct simultaneous expeditionary military operations in widely separated theaters around the world against multiple adversaries who may not even be natural allies” (Liu). The core of the foreign policy as Dobriansky describes it

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    on is U.S Foreign Policy during the 1960’s. Foreign Policy is defined as “Programs and policy that determine America’s relation with other nations and foreign entities.“ Trade agreements like NAFTA, National Security, and embassies all relate to U.S Foreign Policies. Policies that makes or breaks an alliance is Material/Strategic relations, in other words if two countries have a lot of the same thing like soldiers or bombs those two countries might want to become allies. Domestic Policies show how

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    Defining a failed state Before the many faults of the term ‘failed state’ can be enumerated, it is obviously pertinent to define what exactly is meant by the phrase. The idea of a state that does not meet certain requirements (i.e. fails) largely came to prominence in the last few decades, just before the turn of the 20th century and after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, the concept has morphed and shifted in response to development by its proponents and criticism by its detractors. Although

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    Saudi Arabia and the United States: The Honeymoon’s End is in Sight Obama’s victory started a new era in dealing with the Middle East, despite the fact that U.S foreign policy remains tied to its interests in internal security, the economy, and welfare. The U.S policy is being dictated by its personal interests and political parties that stick to the same lines, but differ in some minor ways of implementation. The implementation of this policy serves pubic interest and employs strategy that ensures

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    Within two days, Prime Minister Peter Fraser responded with a cable that transformed the trajectory of New Zealand’s foreign policy. The cable is not published in full, however, the published extracts reveal that Fraser emphasised the deterioration in the Pacific theatre and the fact that “His Majesty’s Government… do not perhaps fully understand the point of view that is being forced by circumstances upon the Government and peoples of New Zealand”. Further, the cable speaks of an intention to establish

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    George Washington, the first president of the United States, had written a very important historical speech and document towards the end of his time in office. He had written the Farewell address which focused on helping America understand the importance of preserving unity, acknowledging the rise of political parties forming, strengthening religion and morality, and he stated his position on American foreign policy. He addressed these ideas with strong tone and used incredible amount of dictions

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