PREVENTING DEADLY CONFLICT

WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

TEACHER DIRECTIONS AND OVERHEADS

Teacher Directions: Tools of Foreign Policy

Distribute to each student the assignment Applying Tools of Foreign Policy. Pair your students and allow them 15-20 minutes to discuss possible answers for each example provided.

Evaluation:

Informal responses by students to check their understanding of these tools
or
Assign as homework at the conclusion of day two, and collect on day three.

Tools of Foreign Policy

  Propaganda – used by nations to discredit another state through public opinion, or to improve their own nation’s international status.
 

 

Diplomacy -

 

Levels
 

Formal contacts
Diplomatic recognition
Ambassadors exchanged

 
  Trade Relations
 

Establish trade relations
Develop trade agreements
Restrictions - tariffs/quotas

 
  Foreign Aid
 

Economic - monetary or goods
Military - weapons, advisors, or troops

 
 

Alliances - bilateral or multilateral agreements among nations for economic/military protection.

 
  International Organizations - multinational to serve global needs.
 

Global/Regional
 

Governmental
Non-Governmental organization (NGO's)

 
 

Boycotts and Sanctions - pressure put on another country by one or more nations to have them comply with international law or t to change their policies.

 
  Military Force
 

Show of strength
Use of terrorism
Limited response
War

 

Applying Tools of Foreign Policy

  1. United States and Kuwait conduct joint military exercises.

  2. United States and Coalition forces fight Iraq in Persian Gulf.

  3. OPEC raises all prices
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  4. United States sells military jets to Saudi Arabia.

  5. United States sends food to Somalia to fight famine.

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  6. United States pressures the United Nations to hat oil shipped from Iraq.

  7. Saddam Hussein tells his people to fight a holy war against the satanic United States of America.

  8. United States goes to war with North Korea as part of a United Nations action.

  9. United States sends troops to Bosnia as part of NATO agreement.

  10. United States signs SALT I treaty with Russia.

  11. United States puts quota on Japanese cars sold in United States.

  12. United States boycotts the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow.

  13. United States sixth fleet stations itself in Persian Gulf.

  14. Hamas kidnaps an American diplomat.

  15. United States gives technical advice to farmers in Angola.

  16. United States supports the O.A.S. and its policy of agreeing to the Guatemalan peace initiative.

  17. United States restricts the sale of computers to China.

  18. United States recognizes the sovereignty of Estonia.

  19. Buy German cars because they are built and engineered the best.

  20. G-7 meets to discuss the status of the dollar on the world market.

 

Answer Key

  1. Alliance/Military foreign aid

  2. Military force (war)/Alliance/International organization

  3. International organization

  4. Trade Relations

  5. Economic Foreign Aid

  6. Sanctions/International organization

  7. Propaganda

  8. Military force (war)/International organization

  9. Alliance/Military force

  10. Diplomacy

  11. Trade restrictions

  12. Boycott

  13. Military force – show of strength

  14. Military force – terrorism

  15. Economic aid

  16. International organization

  17. Trade restrictions

  18. Diplomacy – diplomatic recognition

  19. Propaganda

  20. International organization

Best possible answers for each one, several have multiple possibilities.

Areas of Deadly Conflict in 90’s

Potential Reached Flash Point

Nigeria

 Haiti

South Africa

 Chechnya

Algeria

 Afghanistan

Israel/West Bank

 Sierra Leone

Mexico

 Rwanda

Peru

 Burundi

Colombia

 Zaire

Northern Ireland

 Liberia

Sri Lank

 Sudan

North Korea

 Iraq

Cambodia

 Bosnia