The Importance of Foreign Relationships to the United States of America

The Importance of Foreign Relationships to the United States of America

With the world balancing on the edge of destruction, foreign relationships are

extremely important to the United States of America. The United States is fully

recognized as the most powerful nation on the planet earth, and with that power comes a

definitive sense of responsibility. The U.S. needs to pay close attention to this

responsibility if it hopes to keep its place on the throne as king of the nations. This is

where the United States foreign policy comes into play. Foreign policy is essentially

positive or negative interaction with other nations as well as the goals and principles that

are included. The United States have a couple of choices concerning

their position; they could play the part of world leader or the part of world loner. Let's

look at the viewpoint of an average college student whose knowledge of world affairs is

somewhat lacking and then discuss the possible positions the United States can take in

regards to their place in the world. I will also go over an example of each and get a grasp

of what our government's two political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, say

about these.

The main purpose of every countries foreign policy is to survive and stay stable in

today's world. It is policy that provides a strong national security,

keeps a good economy with other nations, and it is a chance to provide influence in the

world; but above all this is the want for international peace. One of the main ways

to conduct good foreign policy is that of diplomacy, where nations negotiate and

compromise problems they might have in order to get along. By these diplomatic

relations, countrie...

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...ymbol of freedom the United States of America would become. They didn't know that one day, this nation of rebels would have the responsibility of maintaining order in the world we live in. The government has an obligation to Americans to keep them in touch with other nations, not only for our sake, but the sake of the world. As the superpower on earth, we should make foreign policy an important aspect of our governing. In the winter of 96/97 Bill Clinton gave a profound speech to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He summed it up best with this, "We cannot save all the world's children, but we can save many of them. We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at sake and where we can make a difference we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it".