The Obama administration's initial foreign policy approach of a strategy of engagement included all of the following principle goals except
a. to achieve and maintain security for United States, allies, and partners.
b. an assumption of cooperation required in relations with other countries as they were either with us or with the terrorists.
c. to rebuild and strengthen the American economy through an open international system.
d. active promotion of universal values abroad.
e. to work towards an international order that encourages collective action to confront common problems.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated in an important 2009 speech that to solve important collective action problems the Obama administration would focus on which of the following?
a. Work to increase global cooperation with state and non-state actors
b. Tilt the balance away from a multi-polar world towards a multi-partner world
c. Not hesitate to defend our friends and our interests with the world's strongest military
d. Options B and C are true.
e. All of the above is true.
President Obama's July 2009 speech in Moscow called for a reset in U.S./Russian relations, which included focusing on all of the following policy priorities except
a. Muslim equality.
b. nuclear weapons.
c. extremism.
d. global prosperity.
e. Democratic promotion.
A liberal internationalist approach is grounded in all of the following core values and beliefs except
a. the promotion of democracies and individual freedoms to create peaceful international order.
b. promoting international cooperation to knit states and peoples in a web of interdependence to address common problems and reduce risk of conflict.
c. using defensive realism policies to ensure unilateral efforts will protect the interests of the United States.
d. utilizing regional and global organizations as international institutions have a civilizing effect on states.
e. making constructive leadership efforts that reflect upon the Wilsonian roots of international cooperation with both states and non-state actors.
What was the foreign policy approach initially taken by the Obama administration?
a. Realist
b. Liberal functionalist
c. Neo-realist
d. Liberal internationalist
e. Neo-conservative
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