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Future Involvement In Foreign Affairs Essay, Research Paper

Since the United States is one of the last remaining super powers

of the world, we

have the obligation to maintain and support good relations with the

smaller and weaker

nations throughout the world. We should take full advantage of this

authority in several

different ways. First the U.S. must focus on investing and trading with

those nations who

have yet to become economic powers; second, we must implement a consistent

foreign

policy towards the Middle Eastern nations: third, the United States needs

to respect the

attempts and results of the democratization and religious revivals in the

Middle East and

Latin America, while taking a passive role in letting the a Western type

of democracy take

its course: and forth, the U.S. must ease and downplay its conflict with

those civilizations

who dislike the “Western people” and their way of life.

Obviously, foreign investment is necessary for the future of

developing other

nations as well as our own. There must be an emphasis on foreign

investment and trade,

otherwise the third world nations will continue to fall behind

economically, technologically,

and domestically, which could lead to an economic downfall for the U.S. as

well. The

question then arises as to what the United States must do in order to have

large trade

agreements with other countries other than Japan and Mexico. In order for

the U.S. to

play a more active role in the economic and political development of many

of these

developing nations, it must first accept a different philosophy than its

current one. First, it

is imperative for the United States to play a similar role in Latin

America to the one Japan

has played with many of the developing nations in East Asia. The U.S.

neighbors Latin

America, and if it wants to play the role of big brother, it must accept

the responsibility.

Japan has invested, traded, and been a guide for many of it’s neighboring

countries in East

Asia, making them grow politically and economically while also profiting

economically

itself (Japan Remains 1996). The U.S. must realize that the economies of

Latin American

Nations will play an important part in the future of our own economy, and

that it must

begin to lead, invest, and aid not just Mexico, but countries such as

Peru, Argentina,

Bolivia, and Columbia into the twenty first century. The mainstay in

American foreign

policy has always been to promote and instill democracy. However, in

order to do this in a

foreign nation, the U.S. must be able to first establish a viable economic

relationship and

system within the desired nations. We should not expect or want a nation

to switch from a

total authoritarian government to a market economy; doing so would be a

disaster. The

former Soviet Union is a notable example of this philosophy. Instead,

the U.S. has to be

willing to allow developing to nations invest in U.S. markets before we

invest in theirs. In

return, a viable export / import system will be established. But it is

essential that the

economy of the developing nation be monitored and run by its own

government, and the

United States should only be there for advising purposes. When a

reasonable system has

finally been achieved, then–not right away–a more American, laissez -

faire type of

economic network will be allowed to grow. If

The greatest challenge the United States faces is implementing a

foreign policy that

is consistent throughout the Middle East. Islamic nations aren’t likely

to be responsive to

ideas such as human rights, and democracy. These nations will never be

responsive to

western ideas when the United States continues to levy sanctions against

them. The U.S.

is lucky that it has an ally in Saudi Arabia and Israel, allowing them to

implement many of

these foreign policy agendas against the other Middle Eastern countries,

without having to

face serious economic consequences in the oil and gas industry. Oddly

enough though,

Saudi Arabia is probably as much against western ideologies as any nation

in the Middle

East. Women do not have equal rights, torture is frequent, there is no

separation between

church and state, and Saudi Arabia is extremely far from developing any

sort of democracy

(Miller 58). Now, when the U.S. promotes democracy and human rights, why

does it

support one country and condemn the next? Throughout the Cold War,

American foreign

policy would give aid to any nation opposing communism. So during that

time the U.S.

developed a “you’re either with us or against us” type of policy. With

that type of policy,

many of the Middle Eastern countries became so called enemies with the

U.S., which has

led to unrest and hatred of western democracies. In this time of global

economics, the

United States cannot pick and choose which countries to invest in. In

order for the U.S. to

defeat the challenges it faces in the Middle East, it must start by

supporting the entire

Middle East. Israel and Saudi Arabia may be the most attractive

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