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Foregin Policy Essay, Research Paper

Foreign Policy

With the world balancing on the edge of destruction, foreign relationships are

extremely important to the United States of America. The United States is fully

recognized as the most powerful nation on the planet earth, and with that power comes a

definitive sense of responsibility. The U.S. needs to pay close attention to this

responsibility if it hopes to keep its place on the throne as king of the nations. This is

where the United States foreign policy comes into play. Foreign policy is essentially

positive or negative interaction with other nations as well as the goals and principles that

are included. The United States have a couple of choices concerning

their position; they could play the part of world leader or the part of world loner. Let’s

look at the viewpoint of an average college student whose knowledge of world affairs is

somewhat lacking and then discuss the possible positions the United States can take in

regards to their place in the world. I will also go over an example of each and get a grasp

of what our government’s two political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, say

about these.

The main purpose of every countries foreign policy is to survive and stay stable in

today’s world. It is policy that provides a strong national security,

keeps a good economy with other nations, and it is a chance to provide influence in the

world; but above all this is the want for international peace. One of the main ways

to conduct good foreign policy is that of diplomacy, where nations negotiate and

compromise problems they might have in order to get along. By these diplomatic

relations, countries can interact with one another and learn to work together for a better

understanding of each others nations. Another method of foreign policy is that of being a

loner or isolationist. Isolationism is the idea that we keep to ourselves and our own

western hemisphere rather than venture into the affairs of the eastern world. This was basically the accepted perspective taken by the United States up until

about the first world war when President Woodrow Wilson decided to plunge into the war

effort. Then a peacekeeping association came about called the League of Nations, which

Wilson helped propose, but the United States Senate gave it a firm “no”. This kept

the United States in its loner state once again.

Some years later the United States entered a period of awakening concerning

getting out and about in the world. We journeyed into a time of Internationalism after the

second world war but it was many earlier events that led up to this, particularly our

interaction with Latin America. Back when the United States was just breaking away

from Britain and starting as a nation, President James Monroe came up with a declaration

called the Monroe Doctrine. In 1823 he wrote this, telling European nations to keep

their noses in their own hemisphere. What Monroe didn’t know was that he was

establishing a beginning to a leadership responsibility in not only the western hemisphere,

but in the entire world. The United States began sticking up for nations such as Mexico

and Puerto Rico, and soon got involved in various other Latin American countries. In

fact, the United States got involved eight times from 1904 to 1934, then again in the

affairs of Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and the destruction of the leftist

government of Brazil after the second world war. It was during the beginning of

World War II that the United States began to get more involved. At first the United

States tried to keep to itself and stay out of the fighting. But when Germany, Japan, and

Italy tried to expand by force into China, Ethiopia, Poland, Austria, and present day Czech Republic, Britain and France declared war on Hitler, and the United States did nothing. It wasn’t until that fateful day of December 7 in 1941 when the United States

had had enough. Pearl Harbor was attacked and Americans died, which was more than

enough for us to start our trek into Internationalism and intervention. After World War

II, the United States began its journey as world leader. It was now time for America to

help other nations rebuild and start its hate of Communism. George Marshall, an Army

General for the United States came up with the Marshall Plan, one that would provide

extensive help for other nations in Europe by providing loans for economic recovery.

Later America plunged itself into a war with North Korea to protect its neighboring South

Korea, this was possible through the United Nations Security Council and although many

Americans lost their lives, we created a bond with the South Koreans. The next set of

foreign aid came when John F. Kennedy was President. Kennedy not only began the

counterinsurgency force called the Green Berets to stop communism, but also invaded

Cuba and posed the question of war with Russia. Then came one of the biggest

interventions in Americas history of foreign policy.

In the late 1950’s the United States, under John F. Kennedy sent 16,000 American

military “advisers” to Vietnam. The southern based republic of Vietnam was in

desperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded North

Vietnamese. This was actually the beginning of two wars. The first was a struggle

between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime which was aided by the

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