The instruments of US foreign policy
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- The instruments of US foreign policy
- The State Department
- Keeping the President informed about international developments
- Maintaining diplomatic relations with foreign governments
- Negotiating treaties
- Protecting the interests of Americans abroad
- It spends years cultivating relationships with other countries, it is seen as the part of the federal bureaucracy least responsive to an incoming administration's goals
- The Department of Defence
- Primary role is to assist the President in his role as C-inC
- Often referred to as the Pentagon (shape of the headquarters in Arlington, Virginia)
- It is the largest of all the departments
- 800,000 civilian and more than a million military personnel
- In GW Bush's first term the Departments of Defence and State offered conflicting advice and the Pentagon usually prevailed
- Intelligence agencies
- The CIA is the most famous but not the largest of the intelligence agencies in the US
- There are 15 federal agencies belonging to the intelligence community
- 8 of these representing more than 80% of the annual budget of $40 billion, fall under the responsibility of the Department of Defence
- In 2004, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which created the post of Director of National Intelligence, who would coordinate activities of all the agencies
- The State Department
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