James M. McCormick (ed.) - The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence

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Introduction

The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with 365 electoral votes and 53 percent of the popular vote. With that victory, he appeared to be foreshadowing significant change in Americas foreign and domestic policy. Indeed, he called for a new direction in American foreign policy, one that would set his approach apart from the previous administration. Under his administration, the United States would pursue a foreign policy based on the promotion of American domestic values, but it would also seek greater cooperation (or partnership) with other nations in addressing pressing global issues. President Obama outlined some of the components of this approach in foreign policy addresses in Prague, Moscow, Cairo, and Accra during the first six months of his presidency: The United States would support the promotion of democracy around the world, but it would not impose it; the United States would seek cooperation with other states to renew our prosperity and to provide for our common security; and the United States would address our [common] problems... through partnership because our progress must be shared. In all, such an approach not only emphasized the importance of interdependence in addressing global problems but also reminded us of the inevitable nexus between foreign and domestic policy.

The linkage of foreign and domestic policy for the United States and other countries is hardly a new phenomenon, but those ties have accelerated in recent decades, largely fueled by the process of globalization. Globalizationthe political, economic, and social forces that are drawing peoples together regardless of state boundariescontinues to increase dramatically in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the distinctions between foreign and domestic policies across a broad spectrum of issues are increasingly blurred. The expansion of intergovernmental organizations in the world, the rise of more and more nongovernmental organizations globally, and the growth of transnational linkages through the Information Revolution of cyberspaceall have reduced the significance of national boundaries and geographical distance in addressing many policy issues.