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Essay / The Importance of Foreign Policy - 1060
Foreign policy - when a country discusses negotiations with other nations, hoping to achieve a goal or maintain national interests (Dictionary.com) . During the 20th and 21st centuries, the United States of America rose to become a global superpower. As the decider of wars and with the world's largest economy, the immense power of the United States has served as the pinnacle of the Western world, believing in its mission, as former President Woodrow Wilson noted, "to make the world safe for everyone. democracy." Our country has achieved this for years thanks to its foreign policy, which has given it allies and very many enemies, mainly those who are communist nations ruled by a military dictatorship. This has led us to some conflicts in places like the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, where most of the corrupt and terrorist leaders are located, who oppose the principles of putting power to the people But our intervention. continued in other countries has increased tensions and has not contributed to the weakening of our economy, and some question whether the United States should retain its role as "global police" (Messerli). should abandon this role, but if not us, then who of course, there are countries like Russia, Britain, France, Germany, China and Japan, or organizations like? the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but they are not powerful enough to have the same influence as the United States did (Messerli). In my opinion, I thought that the League of Nations proposed by President Wilson after World War I would have worked if the United States had not refused to join it and had not entered into its state of isolationism during several years. Middle of paper ... those who believe the United States should remain the world police. They believe that possible replacements are not powerful enough to assume the role that the United States currently plays (Messerli). Organizations such as the United Nations cannot be an effective global policeman because countries do not offer enough aid or assistance necessary for military action (Reed). This claim was supported by his failure to end the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda (Boot). Although the UN should not be a reliable replacement, the United States can no longer afford or shoulder the responsibility of playing this role alone. As I proposed in the introduction, a new version of the League of Nations would be created, the influence of three of the major organizations would expand across the globe, and America's role in foreign policy would be reduced. Another reason why some people think