International organizations

Let's start with a quick review.

How the U.S. interacts with other nations.

Foreign policy

Addresses problems and interests inside of our country.

Domestic policy

What is the difference between domestic and foreign policy?

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of DOMESTIC POLICY or FOREIGN POLICY?

"The government operates national parks in different parts of the country."

• Domestic Policy

• Foreign Policy

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of DOMESTIC POLICY or FOREIGN POLICY?

"New partners, same interests: The United States allied with countries around the world."

• Domestic Policy

• Foreign Policy

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of DOMESTIC POLICY or FOREIGN POLICY?

"World Climate Change Meet Up: The United States plays a major role in deciding how the world should handle this issue."

• Domestic Policy

• Foreign Policy

Multiple Choice

What are four pillars or principles of American diplomacy?

• security, prosperity, democracy, economic development

• security, tyranny, inflation, democracy

• economic development, prosperity, social media, justice

• Social justice, interior development, social media, freedom

• The Senate confirms the president's appointments and treaties. 

• Declares war.

• Approves federal funding for all federal programs including defense and foreign aid.

Legislative Branch: Congress

• Appoints ambassadors.

• Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

• Negotiates Treaties.

• Appoints heads of the executive offices including the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense.

Executive Branch: President

WHO creates foreign policy?

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The majority of the United States' foreign policy lies in the hands of the ___

• Vice President

• CIA

• FBI

• President

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What is foreign policy?

• a country’s relations with other nations
• international trade policy
• sending diplomats to global conferences
• protection of overseas interests

Multiple Choice

The president can make treaties, but who has to approve them?

• The Supreme Court

• The Cabinet

• The Senate

• The House of Representatives

Multiple Choice

Only the _______________ can declare war on another country.

• Executive Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Judicial Branch

Multiple Choice

The _______________ negotiates a treaty with another country.

• Executive Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Judicial Branch

What do we want to accomplish today?

1. Analyze international organizations to identify how they help the U.S. accomplish foreign policy goals.

2. Evaluate the effectiveness of these international organizations.

Médecins Sans Frontières

Red Cross/ Red Crescent

NGO

NATO

United Nations
USMCA
European Union
International Monetary Fund

Governmental

International organizations. To reach foreign policy goals, nations sometimes must work with international organizations. There are 2 types of international organizations. Government sponsored and NGO's or Non-governmental organizations.

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What do you think are the advantages of an organization working with a government? Why do you say that?

What do you think are the drawbacks with working with a government? Why do you say that?

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What do you think are the advantages of an organization working without a government? Why do you say that?

What do you think are the drawbacks with working without a government? Why do you say that?

The United Nations

• Post-World War II

• Prevent War

• Provide humanitarian aid (Declaration of Human Rights)

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The UN General Assembly is made up of all member nations who work together to promote the goals of the UN.

The UN Security council is tasked with addressing conflict.

• The Security Council has 5 permanent members and 10 rotating members who decide where and when UN operations should be deployed to maintain peace and security.

• All it takes is one member of the Security Council to veto any proposed action.

• Members often vote in their own interests.

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Example

UNITED NATIONS — Members of the UN Security Council failed to reach a consensus Thursday on a bid by Palestinians for full UN membership, meaning the longshot effort is now likely headed for a more formal council vote.

The Palestinians, who have had observer status at the world body since 2012, have lobbied for years to gain full membership, which would amount to recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Any request to become a UN member state must first pass through the Security Council where Israel’s ally, the United States, wields a veto, and must then be endorsed by the General Assembly.

Source: The Times of Israel.

​Who are the Blue Helmets?

​“Blue Helmets,” were allowed to use force only in self-defense. The missions were given and enjoyed the consent of the parties to the conflict and the support of the Security Council and the troop-contributing countries.

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Who are the 5 permanent members of the Security Council? 

• United States, Germany, Russia, China and the United Kingdom
• United States, France, Japan, China and the United Kingdo
• United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom
• United States, Russia, China, Canada and the United Kingdom

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What makes it difficult to enforce universal human right or to punish people who break these rights?

• The UN can only monitor and investigate violations, they cannot force states to change their policies

• People do not agree on what are Universal Human Rights

• The UN has become to powerful and states are pushing back against their control

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Which of the following is a goal of the United Nations?

• Preventing international wars
•  Punishing countries that don't have free elections
• Distributing the earth's natural resources equally among all countries 
•  Maintaining the United States' position as the world's number-one superpower

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written in response to

• atrocities committed during World War II

• the burning of Hutu homes in Rwanda

• demands for better treatment of Latin American peasants in Guatemala

• the forced migrations of city people under the rule of the Khmer Rouge

Multiple Choice

Where are the Head quarters of the United Nations Security Council?

• Washington DC

• Australia

• New York City

• Canada

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What foreign policy goals does the United Nations help the U.S. to accomplish? Select all that apply.

• promote and protect economic interests
• Protect American citizens
• Maintain a balance of power
• Promote human rights

International Monetary Fund

UN Agency that focuses on sustainable growth and prosperity for member nations. (Keep the global economy stable)

Open Ended

What events in the 1930s and 1940s make the United Nation members feel the need to create an agency like the IMF?

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Use the excerpt to answer the question.

How can the US economy threaten global economic stability?

April 16 (UPI) -- The International Monetary Fund warned the United States on Tuesday that the government's rampant spending and growing national debt is not sustainable and could threaten the global economy.

"Something will have to give," the Washington-based nonpartisan financial agency of the United Nations warned, despite signs of economic growth.

The IMF said the U.S. federal budget deficit grew from $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2022 to $1.7 trillion last year. The debt, which surpassed $34 trillion, is on track to exceed $45.7 trillion within a decade, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office.

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Cold War alliance that continues today.

NATO Article 5: Mutual defense (attack one, all must defend)

Open Ended

Why has NATO expanded?

Finland formally joined NATO on Tuesday, its flag unfurling outside the military bloc's Brussels headquarters, in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine that drew a threat from Moscow of "counter-measures."

Finland's accession, ending seven decades of military non-alignment, roughly doubles the length of the border the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shares with Russia and bolsters its eastern flank as the war in Ukraine, opens new tab grinds on with no resolution in sight.

April 4, 2023, Reuters News

Sweden officially joined NATO on Thursday after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spurred it to rethink its defense policy and abandon its long held position of neutrality. Sweden joining NATO was scarcely conceivable a little more than two years ago. The country remained neutral in both World Wars but when Russian troops began marching toward Kyiv in February 2022, Sweden – and its Nordic neighbor Finland – became alert to the threat Moscow could pose to nearby countries outside the alliance.

March 7, 2024

Multiple Choice

NATO stands for

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• North Atlanta Treaty Organization

• National Atlantic Thirty Organization

• North Atlantic Treaty Organizations

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What is a treaty?

• A piece of paper that gives police officers the right to search personal property

• a piece of paper that declares war on another country

• a document that raises taxes on a country's trade imports

• An agreement between two or more countries

Multiple Choice

Who was the original "enemy" of NATO?

• Soviet Union
• Russia
• Germany
• Japan
• USA

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What is Article 5 of the Washington Treaty allow?

• The membership of Communist countries

• The Right to bear arms

• Collective defence

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Includes 193 member nations.

• UN
• NATO

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UN or NATO?

a military alliance

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UN or NATO?

an attack against one member country is an attack against all member countries

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The World Trade Organization helps the United States to accomplish the foreign policy goal of ​

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promote and protect economic interests

Protect American citizens

Maintain a balance of power

Promote human rights

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How do trade agreements help the US to meet its foreign policy goals? Be specific.

(Goals: Keep citizens safe/national defense, economic growth and stability, maintain balance of power, and promote democracy and human rights).

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Focuses on regulating trade between nations.

Settles trade disputes.

Helps negotiate trade agreements.

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The World Trade Organization helps the United States to accomplish the foreign policy goal of ​

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promote and protect economic interests

Protect American citizens

Maintain a balance of power

Promote human rights

US - Mexico - Canada Agreement

Free trade agreement replacing NAFTA.

Greater protections for workers and environment.

Meant to be competitive to European Union and other trade alliances.

Open Ended

How do trade agreements like NAFTA and the USMCA impact the United States?

Multiple Choice

Products sold to other countries

• Currency
• Import
• Export
• International trade

Multiple Choice

Free trade means 

• the countries use the same currency
• No trade barriers
• there is a quota on some goods
• trade is quick and easy

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An extra price or tax added onto imported products

• Embargo
• Tariff
• Quota
• Exchange rate

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Products brought into a country

• Currency
• Exchange rate
• Export
• Import

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The USMCA helps the United States to accomplish the foreign policy goal of ​

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promote and protect economic interests

Protect American citizens

Maintain a balance of power

Promote human rights

Used in predominately Muslim countries.

Red Crescent

Used in Western or Christian dominated countries.

​Red Cross

NGO: Red Cross/Red Crescent are the same organization providing humanitarian aid.

​Red Crystal

Used in countries that don't want religious affiliation.

Multiple Choice

What are most people who work for the American Red Cross?

• helpers

• volunteers

• students

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When does American Red Cross help people?

• before it rains

• after it snows

• after a disaster

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The Red Cross helps the United States to accomplish the foreign policy goal of ​​

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Promote and protect economic interests

Protect American citizens

Maintain a balance of power

Protect American Citizens