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A 12 page research paper that accessing US foreign policy in regards to the "new agenda" of terrorism, environmental degradation and world economic interdependence. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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success in the twenty-first century. The Cold War is over. Thats the good news; now for the bad. Terrorism is a constant threat in the post 9/11 world. Small-scale conflicts,
likewise, are a perpetual factor. Economic interdependence and globalization are redefining international relations as environmental degradation threatens everyone and scientists issue dire warnings about ecological catastrophes. This is the new
agenda for American foreign policy and it brings up the question of how the US can best deal with its stringent and urgent requirements. Examination of past and current foreign
policy positions demonstrates the complexity of these problems. There are numerous theories describing the workings of foreign policy -- political realism, behavioral, post-behavioral, neoliberalism, idealism, just to name
a few (Kegley and Wittkopf, 1995). The theory that appears to be the most influential with the current Bush administration is the view of states as unitary actors, which is
founded on the principles of policy making seen as rational choice (Kegley and Wittkopf, 1995). States as unitary actors and policy-making as rational choice Kegley and Wittkopf (1995) point
out that political realism, in both its classical and neorealist forms, focuses on the perception that the international environment determines state action. It takes the position that foreign policy making
is comprised of nation-states reacting to the "pressures of an anarchical world system" in which essential properties do not vary (Kegley and Wittkopf, 1995, p. 46). Furthermore, this theory assumes
that all actors on the international stage confront issues of national survival in similar ways; and, therefore, all decision makers are basically alike in their approach to foreign policy
decisions. With this as a conceptual basis, the foreign policy decision-making process is studied as each nation were a "unitary actor" (Kegley and Wittkopf, 1995). This pictures foreign policy as
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