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American Foreign Policy Outline

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cold War
History by period
Foreign policy of the United States
United States law
Military–industrial complex
Containment
Central Intelligence Agency
International relations
Humanities
Criticism of American foreign policy
George F. Kennan
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CHAPTER 20 Foreign Policy and Military Policy REVIEWING THE CHAPTER CHAPTER FOCUS This chapter presents a survey of selected topics in United States foreign policy (or rather policies), focusing on the political processes involved in arriving at those policies. After reading and reviewing the material in this chapter, you should be able to do each of the following: 1. List the constitutional powers of the president and compare them with the authority of Congress in foreign affairs. Indicate why it is naive to read the Constitution literally in order to determine which institution has the major responsibility to conduct foreign policy. Explain why the president has a larger role than the Framers intended.

Chapter 11 key terms

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Chapter 11 Key-terms Chief executive: the role of the president serves as Head and chief administrator of the federal bureaucracy. Commander-in-chief: the president?s constitutional role as head of the Armed Forces with power to direct their use. Executive office of the president (EOP): the president?s personal bureaucracy that monitors the work done in Canada department and agencies. Executive orders: rules or regulations issued by the president that have the force of law; issue to implement constitutional provisions are statues. Executive privilege: the authority of a president to withhold specific types of information from the courts and Congress.
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