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unusual facts about U.S. foreign policy



George A. Lopez

Lopez's work has been published in Human Rights Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Affairs, The International Journal of Human Rights, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and Ethics and International Affairs.

Global Poverty Act

The Global Poverty Act would require the U.S. President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

History of U.S. foreign policy

President Wilson vehemently denounced German violations of American neutrality that involved loss of life, most famously in the torpedo attack on the RMS Lusitania in 1915 that killed 128 American civilians but which may have been carrying war munitions.

An insight into recent thinking inside the State Department was provided in November 2010 and the following months through the Wikileaks United States diplomatic cables release.

British financiers built and operated most of the blockade runners, spending hundreds of millions of pounds on them; but that was legal and not the cause of serious tension.

The diplomats–especially Franklin, Adams and Jefferson–secured recognition of American independence and large loans to the new national government.

NameBase

NameBase is a web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on individuals involved in the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, crime, and business.

State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee

SWNCC was an important precursor to the National Security Council, and represents perhaps the most successful integration of military and civilian assets in the history of U.S. foreign policy.


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Abhay Kumar

Moreover he studied Russian language, history and literature at the Moscow State University and U.S. Foreign Policy at the George Washington University.

Asle Toje

He has been a spokesman for a strong defense and close ties to U.S. foreign policy in the same tradition as Radosław Sikorski and Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs

The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs is responsible for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

David Callahan

Callahan has published two books on U.S. foreign policy:Dangerous Capabilities, a biography of Paul Nitze, and Unwinnable Wars, a study of U.S. involvement in such ethnic conflicts as the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Lebanon, and Biafra.

Ethnic interest groups in the United States

Anglo-Saxonism and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Spanish-American War in Ambrosio, Thomas.

Germany is Our Problem

During 1944 Henry Morgenthau involved himself in U.S. foreign policy, together with his associate Harry White he formulated the Morgenthau plan.

Grand strategy

Barry Posen, director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes the activist U.S. foreign policy that continues to define U.S. strategy in the twenty-first century is an "undisciplined, expensive, and bloody strategy" that has done more harm than good to U.S. national security.

In a 1997 piece for International Security entitled "Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy," Barry R. Posen and Andrew L. Ross outlined four major grand strategies applicable to U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War world: neo-isolationism, selective engagement, cooperative security and primacy.

Jeremiah Evarts

The effect that Evarts's activism for the rights of indigenous peoples had on U.S. foreign policy through his son, William M. Evarts who was Secretary of State during the Hayes administration (1877-1881), is a question for historians.

Matthew Woll

Workers of the World Undermined: American Labor's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy. Boston: South End Press, 1991.

National Missile Defense in Canada

This viewpoint was shared by many who feared the increasingly aggressive U.S. foreign policy under George W. Bush, and who resented the suggestion that Canada may not have an independent foreign policy.

Riedel

Bruce Riedel (born c. 1953), U.S. foreign policy analyst and author