The effects of the Cold War on Foreign Policy since 2001

The effects of the Cold War on Foreign Policy since 2001

Robert Barnes South University Online American Government 2/11/2012

The effects of the Cold War on Foreign Policy since 2001 In this discussion we will discuss the issues involved in foreign policy making in the U.S. Government and how the Cold War has shaped the way foreign policies are made in our American Government by the Global Elites whose agenda is for a one world fascist/socialist government.

How the experience of the U.S. in the Cold War has affected foreign policy since 2001 I believe that the cold war and the fear of communism coming and taking over the nation of the United States of America brought much a paranoia that we had to create more agencies to counter spy insurgents like the N.S.A. and the C.I.A. branches that maintain a watchful eye on the people that come in and go out. I remember back in the eighties when we had bomb threat drills that called for us to duck under our desk, like that is really going to protect you from a nuclear blast, or even if by some chance it did, the radiation would get you.

Even when I was growing up, I could remember how afraid the people were that we were going to go to war one day with the Russians, because they were the super power ahead of us at the time; and since they took over Germany in World War II, what was to prevent them from taking us over? It was not until Reagan made a treaty with the Russians and was able to take down the Berlin wall that people started to relax a little bit, and when communism fell we took a real big sigh of relief. Yet we have not forgotten, and I believe that paranoia of a takeover or annihilation greatly dictates how foreign policy is made between us and other nations.

I also believe that because men are inherently evil and do not trust so easily when they have been met with so much treachery in the past, this greatly guides us to make foreign policy

The effects of the Cold War on Foreign Policy since 2001 very carefully so to avoid the traps of betrayal. Thus our experience with spies and espionage during the reign of communism in Russia, as well as their growth as a nuclear super power greatly guided our foot steps in foreign policy making even unto today.

How Cold War threats were similar to those posed by Islamic terrorism and how they differ Democratic and Republican strategists alike hold that the most imminent threats today are threats to U.S. safety. Terrorism, basically Islamist in origin, is the key problem. It is caused by something that is wrong with Arab society in particular, but also the societies of other Islamic countries such as Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Rogue stateswith interests and forms of government different from our own, a willingness to use force and, in the worst case, an inclination to acquire nuclear weaponsare a closely related threat because they may assist terrorists. (http://www.theamericaninterest.com/article.cfm?piece=331)

In many ways the threats of terrorism by the Islamic Jihad were very similar to the threats faced during the cold war because terrorism offered a state of unrest and fear as did the race between us and the Russians to become the global super power. And because of the efforts of the Islamic to acquire W.M.D. Weapons of Mass Destruction, they are in an effect thriving to take Russias place in competition with us as the new super power. In light of this issue, we are in fact being plunged into another cold war like that of what we faced with the Russians. The only thing that I can see that is different in the issues of the Islamic Jihad, in whom is our new enemy is that the Russians knew how to make W.M.D.s, and the Islamic Jihad are trying to acquire them through the Russians or Chinese.

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Politics In America, 8th Edition | American Government Text Book Thomas R. Dye, Bartholomew H. Sparrow http://digitalbookshelf.southuniversity.edu/#/books/0558302505/pages/2618820?return=/ books/0558302505/outline/14 By using Harold Lasswells classic definition of politics as its unifying framework, Politics in America, Eighth Edition, strives to present a clear, concise, and stimulating introduction to the American political system.

The Case for Restraint From the November/December 2007 issue: The Case for Restraint Barry R. Posen http://www.theamericaninterest.com/article.cfm?piece=331 Since the end of the Cold War, the American foreign policy establishment has gradually converged on a grand strategy for the United States. Republican and Democratic foreign policy experts now disagree little about the threats the United States faces and the remedies it should pursue. Despite the present consensus and the very great power of the United States, which mutes the consequences of even Iraq-scale blunders, a reconsideration of U.S. grand strategy seems inevitable as the costs of the current consensus mountwhich they will. The current consensus strategy is unsustainable.