The Global Role of the United States

The Global Role of the USA

U.S. foreign policy has often been determined to transport the ideas of the American Dream to the world

the promotion of free trade and capitalism (economig growth)

the promotion of peace, freedom, and democracy

the improvement of living conditions

protecting the safety/ freedom of all American citizens + help other people in need

Isolationism in the 18th and 19th century

Interventionism in the 20th century

International relations after 1945

Criticism and responses

- avoiding foreign entanglements

- they remained from European disputes

- focused on territorial expansion

- Monroe doctrine, 1823

the U.S would neither interfere in affairs/ wars of the EU, nor in existing European colonies

- "Manifest Destiny"/ "Social Darwinism" (survival of the fittest) justifies a growing imperialist policy

the U.S. occupued many nations in the Pacific (military)

- role of a moral world leader and a military and economic world power

(Pearl Harbor, WW I and II)

- Americas rola as a "world policeman"

- use its military and economic power to support its democratic ideals

- result: era of hostility (Cold War, "war on terror" in Iraq..)

- U.S. had military and economic interests in every region of the globe,

- although they want to stabilize/ secure these regions. the U.S moral authority was severely damaged

golas regarded as noble have often been overstated

but despite all the criticism, they once maintained a peacekeeping role and they're stil being asked to become active worldwide