Strategic Interests In Henry Kissinger's White House Years

Entering World War II in 1939, Nixon started working for the federal government for the Office of Emergency Management. He soon joined the navy in 1942 to help fight against the german, japanese, and italians. He was serving as an aviation ground officer and then rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. He got sent to the Pacific with the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command. Almost fifteen months later he soon arrived in the United States. While Nixon was in the United States he was elected the U.S. House of Representatives. He defeated the five-term Democratic Congressman Jerry voorhis in a campaign that relied on Jerry’s communist actions. Nixon soon gained the reputation as an internationalist in foreign policies. He also had to

The Americans became a friend of Pakistan because those days Russia was their main enemy. The crisis of war united some countries. In my opinion, the destinies of those mini-states were concerned with the war between two superpower. Poor and backward countries were all became victims of the conflict. Pakistan used war tactics to teach math at that time because they wanted their offspring to understand the cruelty of war and warned their future generations to become stronger. Because the change of position in the international energy supply chain, the civil strife in Iraq rise in oil prices allowed the United States gained a lot of advantages from it. The higher price made America more investment in oil development and corresponding employment,

Both President Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were presidents during the cold war. Their uses of presidential power within foreign policy greatly shaped the United State’s strategies in cold war politics. Comparing their actions as Chief Diplomat, Chief Legislator, Chief Executive and Commander in Chief shows how they have used both their formal and informal powers to lead the nation. President Eisenhower was much more successful in gaining congress approval through working with them yet had much more trouble dealing with peace abroad. Nixon was able to use powers to make successful gains within the cold war abroad, yet had trouble

“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” This declaration, made by former President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, is part of the Truman Doctrine, and was the basis for U.S. involvement in Western Europe throughout the Cold War. Although the North Atlantic Treaty, and the resulting North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), was established during the Cold War “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,” NATO has persisted since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. This essay will seek to examine the U.S. decision to create and participate in NATO. It will begin by providing a history of NATO and the U.S. decision to participate in NATO before considering how this decision is both an instance of continuity and change in U.S. foreign policy since former President George Washington’s Farewell Address. The essay will conclude by considering the legacy of this decision and its impact on U.S. foreign policy. While this essay will consider the period of time leading up to the formation of NATO and will briefly touch on the present day, greatest consideration will be paid to the time period immediately preceding and following the formation of NATO in 1949.

“Well, in accordance with this wise counsel, I laid down in Guam three principles as guidelines for future American policy toward Asia: First, the United States will keep all of its treaty commitments. Second, we shall provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security. Third, in cases involving other types of aggression, we shall furnish military

In 1923, Henry Kissinger was born in Germany. He had escaped the Nazi regime to become a U.S. statesman. After this, one of his first accomplishments was becoming a Harvard University Professor. After being a professor, Kissinger became very important during Richard Nixon term of being President. Kissinger was a very big part during this term. Kissinger became a national security advisor for President Nixon and also General Ford. They both had the same view on foreign affairs. They both agreed that is wasn’t about crusades or moral stands, but it was about the balance of world economic and military power. Their job was to negotiate armed treaties with the Soviet Union. Even though Kissinger had a German background, he was able to work his

Men in leadership positions have the enormous power to affect the lives of countless individuals around the world. When this power is abused, it can not only destroy lives but also have huge consequences that can affect several future generations. It is important that everyday citizens not only hold politicians accountable but also are knowledgeable about their actions. We must understand that like all humans government leaders are fallible and susceptible to the curse of greed and power. The documentaries The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara and The Trial of Henry Kissinger tells the tale of two men’s’ role in influencing politics in the Cold War and the repercussions of their decisions.

As much as the United States might like to dismiss it, other nations do exist. Since our founding as a nation, we have struggled with foreign policy initiatives. George Washington, our first president, decided that isolationism would protect America. And while Americans followed Washington’s philosophy for decades, foreign policy still leaked through the cracks. The Monroe doctrine radically shifted America isolationism from complete dissociation to selective dissociation. Overall, America’s foreign goals have shifted further outward as the years went on. Although many presidents boast adroit foreign policies, Richard Nixon’s foreign policy deserves a larger spotlight. Although he mired his career in a lackluster domestic policy and the

In the year 1965, American government announced, with public support, that America is going to win the guerilla war and defeat the “global communist conspiracy”. It also promised to build free institutions in South-East Asia. Two years later, in the year 1967, the same affair was considered not only as unsuccessful, but also as a gruesome action of the politicians.

During the 1970s the official foreign policy of the Nixon Administration was detente, which aimed to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union following the confrontations of the 1960s. These confrontations were evident in all corners of the world, including the Middle East. Since 1948, the Arab states of the Middle East had fought against the newly established Israel. The Arab forces were repeatedly pushed back by the more advanced and better disciplined Israeli military. The Arab-Israeli disputes, particularly the Egyptian-Israeli conflict, had evolved into a proxy conflict for the US and USSR. Nixon and Kissinger, despite their belief in detente, saw the need to end the Soviet exploitation of the Middle East through the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Sinai Agreement was, in part, the result of the Nixon and Ford Administrations efforts to reduce Soviet control

The U.S. and Australian alliance share an interest in maintaining the peace and stability in the Asian- Pacific

When Ronald Reagan to the oath of office on January 20, 1981, he called upon Americans to “begin an era of national renewal.” In response to the serious problems facing the country, both foreign and domestic, he asserted his familiar campaign phrase: "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." His dream was to make America the beacon of hope and freedom for those who do not have freedom." Reagan advanced domestic policies that featured a lessening of federal government responsibility in solving social problems, reducing restrictions on business, and implementing tax cuts. Internationally, Reagan demonstrated a fierce opposition to the spread of communism throughout the world and a strong distrust of the Soviet Union, which in 1983 he labeled an "evil empire."

As a result, the U.S is beginning to decline its influence, especially with deprioritizing some of its longest allies. The United States is starting to afoot its decision by retrenching in frontier region, as Grygiel and Mitchell state, “U.S. retrenchment from these regions creates a permissive environment for rising or reassertive powers” this can potentially be a problem for smaller states because, once the U.S. decides to leave the area unattended, provisional powers like China will try to assert its influence and Grygiel and Mitchell talk about low-cost revision, in which rising powers try to have marginal gains by not moving in too aggressively than what their ability allows them for. Furthermore, once the United States leaves, there will not be a global power that restrains these emerging rising powers from attempting to allocated themselves as leading power. The reason why the U.S. influence is declining, is due to technology, budget cuts and geographic location which all have major play with the U.S. deprioritization of alliances. Consequently, the U.S. has reached a certain point in which it cannot have a smooth transition from departing away from its alliance, especially since it has kindred them for so long. Commitment to its alliances does

The US policy of containment broadly refers to ‘resisting the extension of Soviet influence worldwide, without liberating already occupied areas, but fracturing the communist network if possible’. In the context of Southeast Asia however, Containment is more precisely explained as the repelling of the communist North Vietnamese threat from South Vietnam, so as to prevent the extension of communism to the rest of Vietnam, and thereby the whole of Southeast Asia, as prophesized by the ‘Domino Theory’.

The current international system is fragmenting rapidly since the end of the Cold War. A lot of regions in the world are still trying to find the balance of power in the international system, which the U.S. often intervenes to provide its brand of “global leadership”. Some countries like China are emerging as a global power since a few years ago. Subsequently, this will lead to a major threat to the U.S. status as a global major power. The rise of power by China in the international scene signifies the unpredictable nature of the international system. I would argue that the three most critical challenges for the U.S. arising out of this environment are the future world globalization that will cause a conflict between its domestic and foreign policy, the rise of China as a global power, and the ever globalization of terrorism. I believe that the U.S. should be pragmatic in handling its foreign policy and handle each situation independently without a fix doctrine in order to minimize the unintended consequences produced by the globalization of the world.