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The Monroe Doctrine
The US viewed the prospect that other European powers would now help Spain and Portugal to take their lost possessions as a threat to this country's security and a challenge to its economic interests. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine] -
The Open Door Policy
By the late nineteenth century, however, America's thriving trade in Asia was being seriously threatened. In 1899, Secretary of State John Hay announced this country's insistence on an Open Door Policy in China. That doctrine promoted equal trade access for all nations, and demanded that China's independence and sovereignty over its own territory be preserved. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Door_Policy] -
The good neighbor policy
Political instability, revolution, unpaid foreign debts, and injuries to citizens and property of other countries plagued Central and South America. Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary was replaced by Franklin Roosevelt's Good Labor Policy, a conscious attempt to win friends to the south by reducing this nations ' political and military intervention s in this region. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Neighbor_policy] -
Collective Security Policy
Following World War II, the United States and most of the rest of a war-weary world looked to the principle of collective security t o keep international peace and order. America hoped to forge a world community in which at least most nations would agree to act together against any nation that threatened the peace. -
Deterrence Policy
Basically, the principle of deterrence is the strategy of maintaining military might at so great a level that very strength will deter-discourage, prevent-an attack on this country by any hostile power -
containment
From mid-1947 through the 1980s, the U.S followed the policy of containment. That policy was rooted in the belief that if communism could be kept within its existing boundaries, it would collapse under the weight of its own internal weakness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment -
Truman Doctrine
The U.S began to counter the aggressive actions of the Soviet Union in the early months of 1917.At President Truman's urgent request, Congress approved a massive program of economic and military aid, and both countries remained free. The Truman Doctrine soon became part of a broader American plan for dealing with the Soviet Union. https://www.google.com/search?q=Truman+Doctrine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab -
policy of detente
In this case, the policy of detente included the purposeful attempt to improve the relations with the Soviet Union and with China. Mr. Nixon journeyed to Moscow. He and the Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev signed the first strategic arms limitations talks agreement, agreed to control over their nucleus power. Since then, the relations with mainland China have improved. However, efforts at detente with the Soviets proved less successful. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tente] -
Afghanistan and Iraq
The war in Afghanistan has become the longest in U.S. military history, and Iraq, with its ongoing struggle, continues to be a thorn in the side of U.S. regional security. Join Asia Society for a conversation on Afghanistan, Iraq, and U.S. foreign policy envoy to Baghdad and Kabul. -
The Middle East
The Middle East is both oil rich and conflict ridden. American's foreign policy interests in the Middle East have been torn in two quite opposite direction: by its long-standing support of Israel and by the critical importance of Arab oil. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_policy_in_the_Middle_East] -
Syria
On September 11, 2012-the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon - an assault on the U.S embassy in the Benghazi led to the deaths of four Americans.Among them, how the U.S should respond to the attacks, whether democracy racy can prevail in Libya, and what the crisis means in terms of the larger war on terror.
