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Unit 6 Security
Question | Answer |
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Explain the Statement that war is " the continuation of politics by other means." | "War is the continuation of politics by other means." This is the definition of war in which Carl von Clausewitz presented in his book Vom Krieg, |
What drives US National Security policy making? | How United States’ foreign, defense, and other national security policies are developed, coordinated, articulated, and implemented is critically important to this nation’s well being. |
What is the United Nations? What do they do? How is it set up? | Created in 1945, an organization whose members agree to renounce war and to respect certain human and economic freedoms. The seat of real power in the United Nations is the Security Council. |
What is the National security Council? | It is an office created in 1947 to coordinate the president's foreign and military policy advisors. Its formal members are the president, vice president, secretary of state, and secretary of defense, and it is managed by the president's national security |
Give an overview of US national security policy. How has the US been involved in other parts of the world? | |
What are the powers of Congress in relation to national security? | |
How do liberals and conservatives view national security? | Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Liberals believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. |
Describe trends in international economic policies. | |
What are economic sanctions? When are they most effective? Why? | Nonmilitary penalties imposed on foreign countries as an attempt to modify their behavior. Denial of export, import, or financial relations with a target country in an effort to change that nation's policies. Economic sanctions are not necessarily imposed |