Foreign Policy In America

Foreign policy has been an important part of the American economic system since the establishment of colonies in the United States and continues to become increasingly important to American economics. With the introduction of new technologies that make communicating with the farthest corners of the world fairly simple high-quality foreign policy and trade agreements are more important than ever. Over the past century in particular the United States has implemented new strategies to improve these policies, however, only some have had a significant positive effect on overall foreign relations. Nevertheless, Regulations on subsidies, immigration, and peace programs have all contributed to the well being of relationships with other countries around

Immigration helped fuel the westward expansion and contributed the industrial revolution that defined the United States as a modern superpower for a century (Cochran 353). In addition, America has always been seen as a country that welcomes immigrants wanting to pursue the American dream, but the U.S. May not be able to sustain the population growth that comes with the high levels of immigration that has been observed previously. Advantages to implementing widespread immigration plans are that it fits the economic need of the United States by filling positions that require specialized skills, adds income to the federal budget by paying income and other taxes, and varies the population in ethnicity and culture ("Lecture 1: Immigration"). Some disadvantages are that immigrants will undercut the American workforce by filling jobs for lower wages, increase the load on public programs such as food stamps, and challenge traditional American values that contribute to the liberties that U.S. citizens hold ("Lecture 1: Immigration"). In addition to these basic benefits and drawbacks of immigration there are others that influence the United States just as much, but are not publicized. Another added benefit is that is a symbiotic relationship between the hard working immigrant and the country that they move to. The immigrant is benefiting from the country in that he/she is

The Democracy Peace Theory is the idea that democracies are not likely to go to war with each other ("Video Engager on Democratic Peace."). This is due to three main reasons: 1. Citizens prefer to avoid unnecessary wars, and since in democracies the government must go through the people it is usually unlikely that the general population will go to war. 2. Since all democracies are founded on the same basic principles it is much more likely that they will go to war with countries that do not share the same values as democratic countries. 3. Democracies usually are more developed than none democratic countries, meaning that wealthy democratic counties have a lot more ground to lose regarding infrastructure than a less developed nation. The strengths to the Democracy Peace Theory is that it reduces the number of unnecessary wars therefore decreasing the needless loss of life of those protecting our country which is one of the greatest advantages a country can gain from a policy or theory. Another advantage to this theory is that if war does ever break out with a non-democratic country it is probable that other democratic countries will become valuable allies. However, there are also weaknesses to this theory as well such as the fact that wars are already fairly rare without adding in the