The Global Role of the United States

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• 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, 1823the 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