With the world balancing on the edge of destruction, foreign relationships are extremely important to the United States of America. The United States is fullyrecognized as the most powerful nation on the planet earth, and with that power comes adefinitive sense of responsibility. The U.S. needs to pay close attention to thisresponsibility if it hopes to keep its place on the throne as king of the nations. This iswhere the United States foreign policy comes into play. Foreign policy is essentiallypositive or negative interaction with other nations as well as the goals and principles thatare included. The United States have a couple of choices concerningtheir position; they could play the part of world leader or the part of world loner. Let’slook at the viewpoint of an average college student whose knowledge of world affairs issomewhat lacking and then discuss the possible positions the United States can take inregards to their place in the world. I will also go over an example of each and get a graspof what our government’s two political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, sayabout these. The main purpose of every countries foreign policy is to survive and stay stable intoday’s world. It is policy that provides a strong national security,keeps a good economy with other nations, and it is a chance to provide influence in theworld; but above all this is the want for international peace. One of the main waysto conduct good foreign policy is that of diplomacy, where nations negotiate andcompromise problems they might have in order to get along. By these diplomaticrelations, countries can interact with one another and learn to work together for a betterunderstanding of each others nations. Another method of foreign policy is that of being aloner or isolationist. Isolationism is the idea that we keep to ourselves and our ownwestern hemisphere rather than venture into the affairs of the...
