Working Through America's Foreign Policy

The primary focus of your work today should be to formulate the overall foreign policy for the United States' role in the world that you will advocate for in your letter to President Obama. You should work with the materials from class over the last two weeks to help you establish your argument.  Remember however that the final component to your letter is to ask the President to use that policy in addressing specific actions in regard to one specific current foreign policy concern. In order to help you to identify what current U.S. policy choices are in regard to a few of those issues, we've given you some helpful links below:

Fact Sheet: First Step Understandings Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Nuclear Program (A detailed description of the current status of negotiations with Iran)

President Obama: “We Will Degrade and Ultimately Destroy ISIL” (A step by step listing of the President's proposed policies towards ISIS).

New York Times - Times Topics - ISIL overview

New York Times - "Obama Seeks Extensive War Authorization..." editorial

New York Times - "Retroactively Authorizing War" editorial

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Ukraine: Current Issues (Just read the one page summary at the beginning of the document).