Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter students should be able to:

Identify what national security policy is.

Distinguish between major aspects of foreign and defense policy before and after the cold war.

Differentiate between an isolationist and an internationalist foreign policy.

Define multilateralism and identify the instruments used to engage in it.

Identify the key policy-making actors in U.S. foreign and defense policy.

Explain at least four out of the six types of military action for which U.S. military forces have been trained.

Identify the concept and components of the military-industrial complex.

Describe the opposing arguments of protectionism and free trade.

Identify what foreign assistance (aid) is, how much the U.S. spends, and for what general purposes.

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