US is the supreme power in relatives to the rest of the world. However, as Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut and journalist Bruce Stokes discussed in their book: America against the world. America is viewed differently, depending who you ask, the American people or the rest of the world, due to its distinctive values and attitudes in foreign matters, i. e exceptionalism. The US exceptionalism is - as, Professor Robin Datta explained it in his lecture, it is the view and attitude of the American people as being “the chosen one” from the rest of the world And also the attitude that America is the pioneer of “great things” that happened in the world As a result of this exceptional attitude, the American public believes there is some sort of jealousy and anti-America sentiment in the world But, as Kohut and Stokes explained, these attitudes have real time foreign policy consequences and many do not have a clear understanding of what role American exceptionalism plays in dealing with the rest of the world Regardless, the US foreign policy is dynamic, self-motivated …show more content…
Since its infancy, America has always been following its own unique foreign policy: the policy of unilateralism or engagement In the concise history of the US Foreign Policy, Joyce P Kaufman, a political science professor, detailed how each policy operated in present issues of the time and also emphasized on the vertebrate of US foreign policy; its national interest In the mean time, American foreign policy is not clearly understood either by the world or the American people This is because in American politics domestic priorities drive its foreign policy decisions it is self-motivated because it only engage in foreign affairs if there is something that is at stake for the US However, that self-interest is not set in a stone, it shifts depending on the situation as its justification for it Historically, the US has been a unilateral and later on become an internationalist,