Essay on Values, Objectives and Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy

Foreign policies began to be in implementation during the era of President George Washington when he stressed more in the minimization of entanglements with foreign alliances as it could lead to evil dealing among nations (Apodaca, 2017). This advice made a great contribution to the United States and made it flourish economically, politically, and socially. However, as time went by and various presidents took over, the nation got itself into worlds affairs and abandoned the principle of isolationism, which forced America to begin spending more energy, time, and money on foreign policy (Biden, 2020). Moreover, during World War II, communism became a problem that needed the state to implement containment for the good and welfare of its people (Breslauer, 2019). This essay is a discussion on the values, objectives, and principles of foreign policies of the United States.

The state designs the foreign policies with the following objectives and goals. First, they are to ensure that world peace and the world’s environment are at the maximum level of protection and security. Secondly, foreign policies should aim at maximizing, maintaining, and preserving the state’s security of its government and its citizens (George, 2019). Thirdly, the foreign policy should focus on ensuring that there is an equilibrium in power among the global nations and to ensure that this balance is constantly and consistently under maintenance by avoiding the domination of other countries over others. Fourthly, they are to promote and ensure human rights and democratic values within and outside the United States for its citizens, immigrants, and immigrants (Harris, 2017). Lastly, the foreign policies would create a platform on which the United States can work with foreign allies to identify and develop solutions to international issues. Above all, the United States would use the foreign policies to endorse corporations with international organizations to further global involvement and trade for the economic growth of American and the world (Hollick, 2017).

These goals and objectives of foreign policies are consequences of some of the U.S. ideals, values, principles, and history. Individuals involved in foreign policy-making such as the president, diplomats, monetary structures, and interest groups are guided by these values for example acknowledging that it is only the interest of the nation that is permanent and should be given the top priority during the formulation of these policies (Pappas, 2020). They as well use tools like the military force, diplomacy, international organizations such as the United Nations, and monetary banks to implement the policies (Tetlock, 2019). However, the United States have problems in the formulation and implementation of these foreign policies resulting from the different presidential interests which in turn compromises their values, principles, and objectives (Turaev, 2020).

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