Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, Second Edition details U.S. foreign affairs from the American Revolution up through the modern day. This comprehensive A-to-Z reference guide covers important people, groups and organizations, events, and legislation.

Table of Contents

• 0-9
• 9/11 Comission and Report
• A
• Abraham Lincoln, foreign policy of
• Abu Ghraib
• Acheson, Dean
• acquisition of Florida
• Act of Chapultepec
• Africa Command
• al-Qaeda
• Alexander Hamilton, influence on foreign policy of
• Alliance for Progress
• America First Committee
• American Insurance Co. v. Canter
• American national style
• Andrew Jackson, foreign policy of
• annexation of Hawaii
• annexation of Texas
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
• ANZUS Pact
• Arab Spring
• Arctic
• arms control
• Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)
• arms transfers
• Articles of Confederation
• ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
• Asian financial crisis
• Atlantic Charter
• B
• Baker Plan
• ballistic missile defense
• Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino
• Barbary pirates
• Baruch Plan
• Benghazi Consulate Attack
• Benjamin Franklin, diplomatic career of
• Berlin blockade
• Berlin crisis, 1958
• Berlin crisis, 1961
• Bill Clinton, foreign policy of
• bin Laden, Osama
• bipolarity
• Blaine, James G.
• bomber gap
• Bracero Program
• Brady Plan
• Brennan, John
• Bretton Woods system
• Brezhnev Doctrine
• Bricker Amendment
• BRICS
• brinkmanship
• Bullitt, William C.
• bureaucracy in U.S. foreign policy
• bureaucratic-politics decision-making model
• Bush Doctrine
• C
• Calhoun, John C.
• Calvin Coolidge, foreign policy of
• Camp David accords
• Camp David II
• Caribbean Basin Initiative
• Carter Doctrine
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
• Charles Evans Hughes, State Department tenure of
• Charles Sumner, influence on foreign policy of
• Church Committee
• civil-military relations
• clandestine collection
• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
• Clinton, Hillary
• coalitions of the willing
• cold war
• collective security
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
• conference diplomacy
• containment
• Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM)
• counterinsurgency conflicts (COIN)
• counterintelligence
• covert action
• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council
• Cuban-American National Foundation
• Cuban missile crisis
• cyberwarfare
• D
• Dames & Moore v. Regan
• Daniel Webster, State Department tenure of
• Dayton Peace Accords
• Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• democratic peace
• democratization in U.S. foreign policy
• Department of Defense
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• détente
• deterrence failures
• deterrence strategies
• digital diplomacy
• diplomacy
• director of central intelligence
• director of national intelligence
• disarmament
• Doha Round
• dollar diplomacy
• domestic influences on U.S. foreign policy
• domino theory in U.S. foreign policy
• Douglas MacArthur, influence on foreign policy of
• “doves” during the cold war
• drones
• drug trafficking as a foreign-policy issue
• dual containment policy
• Dulles, John Foster
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, foreign policy of
• E
• economic sanctions
• Edward Mandell House, influence on foreign policy
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Elihu Root, foreign policy of
• elite decision-making theory
• enlargement policy
• Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (EAI)
• espionage
• Euro Crisis
• European Union
• executive agreements
• extraordinary renditions
• F
• fast-track authority
• filibustering
• Food for Peace
• foreign aid
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)
• foreign lobbying
• foreign policy and the Democratic Party
• foreign policy and the Federalist Party
• foreign policy and the Republican Party
• foreign policy and the Whig Party
• foreign policy in the Federalist Papers
• foreign policy powers of the presidency
• foreign-policy provisions of the U.S. Constitution
• Foreign Service Officer Corps (FSO)
• Formosa Resolution
• Fourteen Points
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, foreign policy of
• Franklin Pierce, foreign policy of
• Frelinghuysen, Frederick
• Fulbright, J. William
• G
• Gadsden Purchase
• Gaither Committee Report
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• genocide
• George C. Marshall, foreign policy of
• George H. W. Bush, foreign policy of
• George W. Bush, foreign policy of
• George Washington, foreign policy of
• Gerald Ford, foreign policy of
• global demographics
• globalization
• Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act
• Goldwater v. Carter
• Grover Cleveland, foreign policy of
• Guantanamo Bay
• guerrilla warfare
• Gulf War Syndrome
• H
• Hagel, Chuck
• Haig, Alexander
• Harry S. Truman, foreign policy of
• “hawks” during the cold war
• Helms-Burton Act
• Helsinki accords
• Henry Cabot Lodge, influence on foreign policy of
• Henry Clay, foreign policy of
• Henry L. Stimson, foreign policy of
• Herbert Hoover, foreign policy of
• Hezbollah
• Hickenlooper amendments
• Holmes v. Jennison
• Hughes-Ryan Amendment
• Hull, Cordell
• human rights and U.S. foreign policy
• humanitarian intervention
• I
• idealism theory in U.S. foreign policy
• Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha
• immigration policy
• impact of elections on U.S. foreign policy
• impact of public opinion on U.S. foreign policy
• imperialism and U.S. foreign policy
• Insular Cases
• intelligence community
• interest groups
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
• international-affairs budget
• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• international crises and U.S. foreign policy
• international law
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• international organization
• international system
• International Trade Organization (ITO)
• internationalism
• Iran-contra affair
• Iranian hostage crisis
• Iraq Study Group
• Iraq War
• isolationism
• J
• Jackson-Vanik Amendment
• James F. Byrnes, influence on cold war policy of
• James K. Polk, foreign policy of
• James Madison, foreign policy of
• Jay's Treaty
• Jesse Helms, influence on foreign policy
• Jimmy Carter, foreign policy of
• John Adams, foreign policy of
• John F. Kennedy, foreign policy of
• John Hay, foreign policy of
• John Quincy Adams, foreign policy of
• Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
• K
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Kennan, George F.
• Kennedy Round
• Kerry, John
• Kissinger, Henry
• Korean War
• Kyoto Protocol
• L
• land mines
• Law of the Sea conferences
• League of Nations
• legalism in U.S. foreign policy
• Lend-Lease
• Libyan intervention
• Lippmann gap
• Logan Act
• London Naval Conference
• Louisiana Purchase
• Lyndon B. Johnson, foreign policy of
• M
• Madrid accords
• Manifest Destiny
• Mariel Boatlift
• Marshall Plan
• massive retaliation
• McCarthyism
• McNamara, Robert
• military-industrial complex
• Millennium Challenge Corporation
• missile gap
• Missouri v. Holland
• monetary policy
• Monroe Doctrine
• Montreal Protocol
• moral pragmatism in U.S. foreign policy
• Morgenthau Plan
• most-favored-nation (MFN) status
• multinational corporations (MNCs)
• multipolarity in U.S. foreign policy
• MX missile
• N
• national intelligence estimates (NIEs)
• National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
• National Security Act
• national security advisor
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• National Security Council (NSC)
• National Security Strategy
• neoconservative
• Neutrality Acts
• New START
• New York Times v. United States
• Nixon Doctrine
• nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• NSC-68
• nuclear compellence strategy
• nuclear deterrence strategy
• nuclear weapons arsenals
• nuclear winter
• Nye Committee
• O
• Obama, Barack
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
• Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
• Olney, Richard
• Open Door policy
• Open Skies proposal
• Operation Desert Shield
• Operation Desert Storm
• Oregon Territory
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• Ostend Manifesto
• P
• Pacific Pivot
• Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
• Panama Canal
• Panama Canal Treaties
• pandemics and U.S. foreign policy
• Partnership for Peace (PfP)
• peace movements
• peace operations
• Pentagon Papers
• Persian Gulf War
• personality in U.S. foreign policy
• Pike Committee
• Pinckney's Treaty
• Platt Amendment
• pluralism in U.S. foreign policy
• Point Four program
• political aspects of the Bay of Pigs invasion
• population policy
• post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction
• Potsdam Conference
• Powell, Colin
• power in U.S. foreign policy
• preemption in foreign policy
• private military contractors
• Prize Cases
• public diplomacy
• purchase of Alaska
• Q
• Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)
• Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR)
• R
• Radio Free Europe (RFE)
• RAND Corporation
• Rapacki Plan
• rational-actor decision-making model
• Reagan Doctrine
• realism in U.S. foreign policy
• Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
• religious influences on U.S. foreign policy
• revisionism in U.S. foreign policy
• Rice, Condoleeza
• Richard Nixon, foreign policy of
• Rio Earth Summit
• Rio Pact
• rogue states
• role of Congress in U.S. foreign policy
• role of embassies in foreign policy
• role of first ladies in U.S. foreign policy
• role of the Department of Agriculture in U.S. foreign policy
• role of the Department of Commerce in U.S. foreign policy
• role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in foreign policy
• role of the Supreme Court in U.S. foreign policy
• role of women in U.S. foreign policy
• Ronald Reagan, foreign policy of
• Roosevelt Corollary
• Rumsfeld, Donald
• Rush-Bagot Agreement
• S
• secretary of defense
• secretary of state
• sectionalism
• September 11 terrorist attacks, foreign-policy response to
• single integrated operational plan (SIOP)
• small-group decision-making model
• Smithsonian Agreement
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
• social media and foreign policy
• South China Sea
• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
• Soviet communism
• Soviet nuclear deterrence strategy
• Spanish-American War
• special operations
• State Department
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II)
• Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I)
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II)
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III)
• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
• Strategic Offense Reductions Treaty (SORT)
• Stuxnet
• Suez Crisis
• summit conferences and summit diplomacy
• Syrian Civil War
• T
• Taliban
• Tea Party movement
• Tehran Conference
• Teller Amendment
• terrorism
• Theodore Roosevelt, foreign policy of
• think tank influence on foreign policy
• Thomas Jefferson, foreign policy of
• Tokyo Round
• Tower Commission
• Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Treasury Department, role in U.S. foreign policy of
• Treaty of Ghent
• Treaty of Paris, 1783
• Treaty of Portsmouth
• Treaty of Versailles
• Trilateral Commission
• tripolarity in U.S. foreign policy
• Truman Doctrine
• Tyler, John
• U
• U-2 incident
• U.S. foreign policy and oil
• U.S. foreign policy during the American Revolution
• U.S. foreign policy during the Civil War
• U.S. foreign policy toward Afghanistan
• U.S. foreign policy toward Africa, post–World War II
• U.S. foreign policy toward Angola
• U.S. foreign policy toward Argentina
• U.S. foreign policy toward Brazil
• U.S. foreign policy toward Cambodia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Canada
• U.S. foreign policy toward Chile
• U.S. foreign policy toward China
• U.S. foreign policy toward Colombia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba
• U.S. foreign policy toward El Salvador
• U.S. foreign policy toward France
• U.S. foreign policy toward Germany
• U.S. foreign policy toward Great Britain
• U.S. foreign policy toward Guatemala
• U.S. foreign policy toward Haiti
• U.S. foreign policy toward India
• U.S. foreign policy toward Indonesia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Iran
• U.S. foreign policy toward Iraq
• U.S. foreign policy toward Israel
• U.S. foreign policy toward Japan
• U.S. foreign policy toward Lebanon
• U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Libya
• U.S. foreign policy toward Mexico
• U.S. foreign policy toward Nicaragua
• U.S. foreign policy toward North Korea
• U.S. foreign policy toward Northern Ireland
• U.S. foreign policy toward Pakistan
• U.S. foreign policy toward Panama
• U.S. foreign policy toward Russia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Somalia
• U.S. foreign policy toward South Africa
• U.S. foreign policy toward South Korea
• U.S. foreign policy toward Spain
• U.S. foreign policy toward Taiwan
• U.S. foreign policy toward the Dominican Republic
• U.S. foreign policy toward Tibet
• U.S. foreign policy toward Turkey
• U.S. foreign policy toward Venezuela
• U.S. foreign policy toward Vietnam
• U.S. Indian policy
• U.S. intervention in Haiti
• U.S. invasion of Grenada
• U.S. invasion of Panama
• U.S. involvement in Puerto Rico
• U.S. involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict
• U.S. involvement in the Iran-Iraq War
• U.S. involvement in the Philippines
• U.S.-Mexican War
• U.S. trade policy
• Ulysses S. Grant, foreign policy of
• Underhill v. Hernandez
• unilateralism
• unipolarity in U.S. foreign policy
• United Nations (UN)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• United States Information Agency (USIA)
• United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
• United States v. Belmont
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation
• Uruguay Round
• U.S. and Soviet nuclear war strategy
• U.S. foreign policy and alliances
• U.S. foreign policy and environmental issues
• U.S. foreign policy and HIV/AIDS
• U.S. foreign policy and intelligence
• U.S. foreign policy and Islam as a political force
• U.S. foreign policy and media
• U.S. foreign policy and national interest
• U.S. foreign policy and refugees
• U.S. foreign policy and Sputnik
• U.S. foreign policy during the debt crisis
• U.S. foreign policy during the French and Indian War
• U.S. foreign policy toward Algeria
• U.S. foreign policy toward Bosnia and Herzegovina
• U.S. foreign policy toward Burma/Myanmar
• U.S. foreign policy toward Congo
• U.S. foreign policy toward Croatia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Czechoslovakia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Egypt
• U.S. foreign policy toward Eritrea
• U.S. foreign policy toward Ethiopia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Greece
• U.S. foreign policy toward Hungary
• U.S. foreign policy toward Ireland
• U.S. foreign policy toward Italy
• U.S. foreign policy toward Jordan
• U.S. foreign policy toward Kosovo
• U.S. foreign policy toward Kuwait
• U.S. foreign policy toward Laos
• U.S. foreign policy toward Mali
• U.S. foreign policy toward Morocco
• U.S. foreign policy toward Namibia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Nigeria
• U.S. foreign policy toward Poland
• U.S. foreign policy toward Rwanda
• U.S. foreign policy toward South Sudan
• U.S. foreign policy toward Sudan
• U.S. foreign policy toward Syria
• U.S. foreign policy toward Thailand
• U.S. foreign policy toward the Baltic states
• U.S. foreign policy toward the Central Asian republics
• U.S. foreign policy toward the Netherlands
• U.S. foreign policy toward Tunisia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Yugoslavia
• U.S. foreign policy toward Zimbabwe
• USA PATRIOT Act
• V
• Vance, Cyrus
• Vandenberg, Arthur H.
• Venezuelan boundary dispute
• verification in U.S. foreign policy
• Vietnam War
• Vladivostok accords
• W
• Wallace, Henry
• War of 1812
• War Powers Resolution
• Ware v. Hylton
• Warren G. Harding, foreign policy of
• Warsaw Pact
• Washington Conference on Naval Disarmament
• waterboarding
• weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
• WikiLeaks
• William Borah, influence on foreign policy of
• William H. Seward, State Department tenure of
• William Howard Taft, foreign policy of
• William Jennings Bryan, foreign policy of
• Wilmot Proviso
• Wilsonianism
• Woodrow Wilson, foreign policy of
• World Bank
• World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World War I
• World War II
• Wye River accords
• Y
• Yalta Conference
• Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
• Z
• Zimmermann telegram