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| a policy that involves choice taking, like domestic policy, but additionally involves choices about relations with the rest of the world. The president is the chief initiator of foreign policy in the United States |
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| created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms. the seat of real power in the "word" in the security council |
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| North Atlantic Treat Organization |
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| Created in 1949, an organization whose members include the US, Canada, most of western europe nations and turkey all of whom agreed to combine military forces and to treat a war against one as a war against all |
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| a transitional government composed of most Western European nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit. an example of regional organization |
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| the head of the department of state and traditionally a key adviser to the president on foreign policy |
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| the head of the department of defense and the president's key adviser on military policy; a key foreign policy actor |
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| the commanding officers of the armed services who advise the president on military policy |
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| central intelligence agency |
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| an agency created after WWII to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad. it became involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling as well |
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| a foreign policy course followed throughout most of our nation's history whereby the US has tried to stay out of other nation's conflicts, particularly European wars. "word" was reaffirmed by the Monroe doctrine |
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| a foreign policy strategy advocated by George Kennan that called for the US to isolate the Soviet Union, "contain" its advances and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible but by force is necessary |
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| mutual dependency, in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another's economic lifelines |
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| the ratio of what is paid for imports to what is earned from exports. when more is imported than exported there is a "word" deficit |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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| an economic organization consisting of primarily Arab nations that control the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations |
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| a special tax added to imported goods to raise the price |
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| strategic defense initiative |
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| renamed "star wars" by critics, a plan for defense against the Soviet Union unveiled by Pres Reagan in 1983. It would create a global umbrella in space, using computers to scan the skies and high-tech devices to destroy invading missles |
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| a slow transformation from conflict thinking to cooperative thinking in foreign policy strategy and policymaking. it sought a relaxation of tensions between the superpowers, coupled with firm guarantees of mutual security |
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