US National Interests

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US National Interests

• What are the threats to the US?
• What should be the US role in the world?
• Who decides the answer?

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Theories?

• Isolationism
• vs.
• Internationalism
• Realists Idealists
• (liberalism/Wilsonianism)

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Pre-WW II Policies US as a Regional Power

• Manifest Destiny
• Free Market economics
• Open access for US investment
• Spreading Democracy
• Nervousness about Commitments

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1. Manifest Destiny
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2. Free MarketsOur Hemisphere
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Commodore Perry in Japan, 1853-54
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Open Door Policy China

• Hay Notes
• 1899-1900

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3. and 4. Wilsonianism and League of Nations

• Wilsons Fourteen Points
• Treaty of Versailles
• League of Nations
• Covenant

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Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
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FDR