Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy

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Assignment 2: Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy

This paper will be a revised and expanded version of the first research paper. Based on your

instructor’s feedback, you will first revise the first paper.

Write three-to-four (3-4) new pages that address the following:
Define presidential doctrine and summarize the regional or global events during the Cold War

leading up to the formation of the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1.
Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that

existed between the country you selected and the U.S. before the presidential doctrine was

announced.
Describe the relationship that currently exists between the U.S. and the country you selected in

section (2) above.
Describe the effect that the presidential doctrine has had on regional or global affairs since it

was announced during the Cold War.
Assess whether or not the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1 doctrine had

had the intended effect of altering the behavior of the country you selected in section (2) above

since the doctrine was first announced.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other

Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

To help you understand this assignment further, the following description and examples may be

useful.
Step 1: Define doctrine and identify why a president would want to announce one.
A doctrine is an ideological platform that a president uses to advance a policy towards a

country or region in order to accomplish foreign policy goals for the United States, so you will

need to expand on this theme.

Refer back to Assignment 1, and build on whatever doctrine you wrote about then. Say, for

example, you selected the Truman Doctrine. Therefore, this is the only thing you will write about

in Assignment 2 step 1.

Step 2: Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War

relationship that existed between it and the U.S.
Before the presidential doctrine was announced. In the case of Truman, you would pick either

the Soviet Union, Greece, or Iran, since all three were affected by his doctrine. If you are writing

about the Eisenhower Doctrine, you would choose Lebanon or Egypt; if you wrote about the

Kennedy Doctrine, you would have write about Cuba or Vietnam; if your wrote about the Nixon

Doctrine, you would choose either Vietnam, Saudi Arabia or Iran; if you chose Carter, you would

select either Iran or Afghanistan; and if you wrote about the Reagan Doctrine, you would select

Nicaragua, Angola, Russia or Afghanistan (although there were several others).

Step 3: Describe what effect the presidential doctrine you chose has had on regional or global

affairs since it was announced during the Cold War.
That is, how did the doctrine change the status quo regionally or globally after it was

announced by the U.S.? What happened in Western Europe after the Truman Doctrine was

announced? What happened in the Middle East after the Eisenhower Doctrine was announced?

What happened with Cuba or Vietnam after Kennedy offered up his doctrine of flexible response?

What happened in Southeast Asia or the Persian Gulf after the Nixon Doctrine went in effect? What

happened in the Middle East after the Carter Doctrine was announced? What happened in Central

America or Africa or the Middle East after Reagan announced his doctrine?

Step 4: Refer back to the country you selected in step two and describe the relationship that

currently exists between the U.S. and that country.
How has the relationship changed between the U.S. and that country since the doctrine was

announced?

Step 5: Evaluate whether or not the presidential doctrine had had the intended effect of altering

the behavior of the one country you selected in section (2) above since the doctrine was first

announced.

Your assignment must:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all

sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any

additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s

name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the

required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Identify the cultural, economic, and political context of information resources, and interpret

information in light of that context.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in international problems.
Write clearly and concisely about international problems using proper writing mechanics

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