Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
Editor/Author
Hastedt, Glenn and Shelton, Allison
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-4183-1
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
180
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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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