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majoritiarian foreign policy
A policy perceived to confer wide benefits,and impose wide benfits, and impose wide costs
polarization
A deep and wide conflict over some government policy
interest-group foreign policy
A policy perceived to confer benefits on one group and costs on another
client foreign policy
A policy perceived to benefit distinct groups but not to cost others
berlin blockade
A stoppage by the USSR of Allied access to Germany’s capital
korematsu v. united states
Case in which the Supreme Court upheld the presidential decision to send Japanese Americans to relocation camps
cuban missile crisis
The situation that followed the USSR’s installation of hostile missiles in the Caribbean
military-industrial complex
An alleged alliance between military leaders and corporate leaders
state department
A cabinet-level body charged with the execution of foreign policy
CIA
The agency charged with collecting sensitive foreign information
NSC
The committee appointed by statute that advises the president on foreign policy
treaties
International agreements submitted to the Senate for approval
executive agreements
International agreements not submitted to the Senate for approval
cost overruns
When the money actually paid to military suppliers exceeds the estimated costs
imperial presidency
Schlesinger’s depiction of presidential power under Nixon
legislative veto
A proviso allowing Congress to overrule the president’s actions
war powers act
Legislation passed in 1973 that attempted to limit the president’s power to make war
third world
The group of developing nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
chadha
a supreme court case voiding the legislative veto in the war powers act
commander in chief
the constitutional role played by the president in time of war
council on foreign relations
a private but powerful foreign policy think tank funded by the rockfellers
gold plating
the tendency of pentagon officials to ask weapons contractors to meet excessively high requirements
worldview
a relatively consistent picture of the world problems facing the united states
containment
the u.s strategy that has dominated its post-world war II policy on the USSR
WMD
weapons of mass destruction
munich
where neville chamberlain sought peace through appeasement
pearl harbor
the site of the japanese attack on u.s naval forces in 1941
iron curtaiin
churchill’s view of the barrier separating the western powers from the USSR-dominated countries after world war II
rally ‘round the flag effect
refers to the tendency of public support for the president to increase in the time of a foreign policy crises
multinational corporation
a business operating in more than one country
antiappeasement
the worldview that emerged as a result of world war II and in particular as a reaction to the Munich conference
disengagement view
the worldview that emerged in the aftermath of the vietnam war suggesting that the united states ought to limit foreign intervention
cold war
the nonmilitary struggle between the united states (and its allies) and the former soviet union (and its allies) following world war II
domino theory
the theory that if one nation fell into communist hands, neighboring nations would follow
isolationism
the view that the united states shoulf withdraw from world affairs, limit foreign aid, and avoid involvement in foreign wars
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