American Government › Section Q · Foreign policy › Topic Q.4
Approaches to foreign policy
Should the United States stay out of other countries' quarrels, lead alliances, or use its power to spread its values? Competing schools of thought give different answers, and recognising them makes sense of debates that run from Washington's day to today.
In this topic
- Why schools of thought matter
- Isolationism
- Realism and idealism
- Liberal internationalism and containment
- Hard power, soft power and grand strategy
- Worked example: two lenses on the Marshall Plan
- Neoconservatism
- Restraint and selective engagement
- Russia and China
- Worked example: naming the approach
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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