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United States foreign assistance policy has been established since the major transformation on foreign economic development with the passage of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 leading by President John F. Kennedy. Foreign assistance is a fundamental component of the international affairs budget and is viewed by many as an essential instrument of U.S. foreign policy. On the basis of national security, commercial, and humanitarian rationales, U.S. assistance flows through many federal agencies and supports broad objectives, including promoting economic growth, reducing poverty, improving governance, expanding access to health care and education, promoting stability in conflictive regions, countering terrorism, promoting human rights, strengthening …show more content…

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It is unique in its ability to deal with multiple players, multiple alternatives, and multiple dimensions, alliance decisions, and environmental decisions. It is inherently built on the assumption that policy makers simplify complicated decision problems by first using simple cognitive shortcuts and then applying a more detailed analytic decision calculus to arrive at a choice. (Mintz 2004a, 8)
Analysis on study case through this model coming from how Obama criticized the realism perspective foreign policy that has been established in United States as a major factor on ineffectiveness of Foreign aid policy. Through that, the reform of foreign aid policy was created by looking on the benefit of having strength foreign aid policy and reducing the ineffectiveness of foreign aid policy as foreign policy. Withing this, Obama as policy makers using rejecting the latest policy and create alternative form in order to simplify the

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American foreign policy has drastically changed throughout history. In 1797, when George Washington gave his farewell address, one of his four major points was to stay out of foreign affairs. Later on during John Quincy Adams’ presidency, the US was still avoiding foreign affairs. After that, US involvement increased during World War I and World War II. Then more recently, George W. Bush decided to send troops into Middle East to fight in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War.

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The first chapters of Guy Zuv’s U.S. Foreign Policy and Hook & Spaniers American Foreign Policy Since World War II talk about the ideology behind the way the United States engages in it’s foreign policy. These chapters show the basis of our thinking when it comes to interactions with different countries either through diplomacy or military actions. They also show the history of our foreign policy and the influencing environment it was founded in. Reflecting on these chapters gives insight into why the U.S. has this unusual behavior when dealing with foreign policy as well as to why we have such a problematic relationship with many countries around the world. One of the major observations we see in our foreign policy is how it’s fluctuates

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From the very beginning, however, aid was not a purely altruistic endeavour as the United States of America (US) needed a strong Europe to continue to purchase its exports and therefore keep the US economy going (Firth 2011: 286). As a result of the aid, Europe flourished, and so did the US economy. Foreign aid today continues to primarily be political and promotes the interests of the country

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In his address to Congress on January 5, 1957, President Eisenhower, similar to President Truman, stated his belief that the United States should contribute economically to strengthen free Middle Eastern countries. In this way he hoped, like Truman, to discourage these countries from turning to the Soviet Union and communism to solve troubles. President Eisenhower also said that the United States should provide military aid to Middle Eastern countries who seek such aid (Eisenhower). Again like Truman the reasoning for this was the hope that the aid would help these countries resist any communist force or aggression. Unlike President Truman, Eisenhower called for the United States to put armed forces in the Middle East to protect and secure the independence of Middle Eastern nations from Communist armed aggression (Eisenhower).

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Synthesis Essay Foreign Aid is one of the most valuable tools in creating a more peaceful and coexisting world. Aid given to other countries is highly valuable as it helps individuals in ways their government isn’t always able to. One of America’s biggest shortcomings is the unwillingness to give aid to countries if it will not directly help America or American interests. In the past Americas unwillingness to help has allowed thousands or even millions of people to suffer. Money should not come before human life.

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Foreign aid will most likely fail, with a few winners succeeding from the assistance. In most of these weak or failed states, the military is extremely corrupt, destructive, and abuses the use of aid. Consequently, Collier suggests the use of foreign military intervention to provide security to these states and

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The US is more than 66 trillion dollars in debt, has more than 560,000 people that are homeless and poverty rates are up to 13.5% (43.1 million people). Other countries are like that too, and we help those countries with foreign aid, but we barely help our own country. These reasons are why we should ban foreign aid, the US is too much in debt and there are too many rich countries that we give foreign aid too. I believe that foreign aid is a negative aspect of this world and should be no longer allowed. One of the reasons why i believe that we should no longer have foreign aid is that the United States is too much in debt to afford foreign aid.

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The Fog of War: Breakdown Using Theories of International Relations Many influential leaders or people in positions of power make weighted decisions which could have a lasting impact on the world around them. When it comes to Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson during a 7-year term, the theory of Realism can explain his decision-making greatly, while Constructivism manages to explain a few decisions but to great and important effect. A few lessons from the documentary The Fog of War highlight his decision-making during a torrid time at the White House. One lesson in The Fog of War is entitled “Empathize with your enemy” (The Fog of War), in which he describes the need to view a

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In Addition, According to Hirst and Thompson, globalisation does not mean “end of politics.” Yet the nation state still has an important role among the multiple level and types of governance, since it integrates the governing powers and shapes a structure where power is disseminated upwards to the international level and downwards to local agencies. Nation states have a vital role because they control the boundaries of their territory. They are the delegate of citizens within those boundaries and the state has the constitutional legitimate

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Foreign aid is the lending or giving of any resource from one individual/group to another. In relation to countries, one or more states decide to give another country or a collection of countries a resources that could be in the form of money, food or medical assistance and many others. Foreign aid has proved to be a sensitive issue between developing countries and developed countries and analysts from both. Over the past decade, books have been written like Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo, and arguments have risen over the efficiency of foreign aid especially if it is frequent between states over a long period of time. In this case study we look at foreign aid in Rwanda, both pre and post the genocide.

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The foreign aid program is created to bring an end to poverty, conflicts and other difficulties that poor-developed countries are enabled to solve it. Everything is not about money, but it is about power, political view or group society. In many well-developed countries, corruption and political control are being reviewed by the UN and other governance, because they could be penalized or have sanctions. In a less-developed country that are already being helped with foreign aid, the governance and other aid programs must have their hands tied when it comes to penalized or sanctioned, because they are already in need, therefore corruption is created in those less-developed countries and hunger follows. There is the end of hungriness that is currently trying to be solved in the world, but there are still conflicts with political control that keeps the foreign aid to cause hunger in

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FOREIGN AID It is an economic instrument used by the states to promote their national as well as international interests. It includes the transfer of money,services, goods, technical assistance and other development assistance. etc usually from the donor countries to the recipient countries i.e. from rich countries to the poor countries. Because, their economic and political objectives depend on having a stable international system and the supports of other countries. It is not a new instrument because it has been using by the states from the earlier times.

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The current work is meant to explain the differences and similarities between the most dominant theories in international relations, Realism and Liberalism, both theories have some similarities and differences but much more important and interesting is to discuss and explain what differs and makes similar both theories. Conflicts and wars, Similarities and differences between Realism and Liberalism: Both Liberalism and Realism believes that there is no world government that can prevent countries to go to war on one another. For both theories military power is important and both Realism and Liberalism can understand that countries can use military power to get what they need or want. Also, both theories are conscious that without military

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Constructivists reject such a one-sided material focus. They argue that the most important aspect of international relations is social, not material. Constructivists have demonstrated that ‘ideas matter’ in international relations. They have shown that culture and identity help define the interests and constitute the actors in IR. All students of IR should be familiar with the important debates raised by constructivists, about basic social theory and about the different ways in which ideas can matter in international relations.

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The international relations schools of thought known as Realism and Idealism identify specific and similar characteristics of actors in the conceptual development of their theories. While many of these characteristics can be generalized as being synonymous with the two theories, both theories make a separate distinction in what specifically constitutes an actor. In Realism, the term “actor” refers directly and solely to the state: a combination of government, leaders, decision-makers, etc, that act as a unitary entity to promote the interests of the state. Idealists, however, expand on what constitutes an actor to include both the state and people. Not only do the principles of Idealism assert that the state and people should be considered actors, in fact, both they must be viewed as actors.

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