Foreign Service Officer Test - US Foreign Policy 2022
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Foreign Service
2 factors that make up congressman's stance on trade
constituency -party
3 concepts of National Interest
Power and National Security -Domestic Impact Conception -Ideological Principle Conception
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4 Models of Decision Making
Rational Actor Model. Organizational Proc...
foreign service officer test us foreign policy 2022
2 factors that make up congressmans stance on trade
3 concepts of national interest
4 models of decision making
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Foreign Service Officer Test - US Foreign
Policy
2 factors that make up congressman's stance on trade - Answer constituency -party
3 concepts of National Interest - Answer Power and National Security -Domestic Impact
Conception -Ideological Principle Conception
4 Models of Decision Making - Answer Rational Actor Model. Organizational Process
Model. Bureaucratic Politics Model. Radical (Military Industrial) Model
4 Options towards Soviet Russia - Answer roll back communism (aggression) -
negotiations of many disagreements (diplomacy) -appeasement -containment/isolation
of USSR
5 Questions for Opinion Maker - Answer How different is mass opinion and lead
opinion? -How interested is the public? -How knowledgeable is the public? -What do
they believe? -Are our opinions volatile?
5 Sequential Steps of Rational Actor - Answer 1. definition of situation 2. identification of
goals 3. identification of options 4. cost benefit analysis
6 Tactics to weaken states - Answer prying away its allies -weakening hold on sphere of
influence -stopping trade -removing hostile gov't -waging preemptive war -fighting wars
to prevent status quo disturbance
7 Sins of US foreign policy - Answer EEIIUA Emphasis on Military; Executive Branch
Dominance, Ignorance, Isolationsm, Unilateralism, Arrogance
ABC Democrats - Answer The promotion by the US of any government opposed to
communism regardless of human rights violations
Adams-Onis Treaty 1819 - Answer with Spain, transferring Florida, extended the U.S. to
present boundaries in southeast.
Alaska purchase 1867 - Answer ended Russian territorial presence and completed U.S.
expansion on North American mainland.
Allies and Germany 1918 - Answer accepted Wilson's 14 points as basis for just and
lasting peace ending World War I.
Bureaucratic Politics Model - Answer bureaucracies argue from their stance;
conglomerates come to their decisions from their organizational standing
, Bush's stance on international trade - Answer -for international trade b/c his main
constituency is the service sector
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Answer the government organization that oversees
foreign intelligence-gathering and related classified activities
Cognitive dissidence - Answer Ignoring or schewing information unfavorable to a
person's opinion
Compellence - Answer Persuading a country from doing something they wouldn't have
done
Congenial International Environment/Interdependence - Answer Needs cooperative
interational environments -US needs more free states
Congress powers in foreign Policy - Answer Ratify treaties; confirm appointments;
declare war; appropriate funds; oversee agencies; enact legislation
Diplomatic Realism - Answer What sub-ideology? -"There can be a slippage between
the distribution of power and the perception of threat" -Revisionist are threatening, while
status quo states are not
Does congress play a small or a large role in foreign affairs? - Answer Large.
Domestic Impact Conception of NI - Answer what would improve lives of citizens -
foreign policy relates to citizens of state
Dove - Answer soft liners; avoid conflict and confrontation; passionate and considerate
even if it means a deal of naivety
Earth Summit. 1992 - Answer Representatives of more than 175 nations, including the
United States, met at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which produced a treaty on
climate change and was the largest international meeting on the environment ever
convened.
Economic interest groups/ Issue groups/ identity groups - Answer groups that promote
public interest such as labor unions and industry groups, pro-life and pro-choice groups,
and minority and women's rights groups
Embargo Act of 1807? - Answer It prohibited all international exports from American
ports. It represented President Thomas Jefferson's response to the United Kingdom's
Orders in Council (1807) and France's Continental System, which were severely hurting
America's merchant marines. Although it was designed to force the British and French
to change their commercial systems, neither country did, and the Act was repealed in
1808. The Act failed to prevent the War of 1812.
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