Foreign Policy

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What Is Trade Policy?
In this free resource on trade policy, explore how countries leverage their economic power to advance their foreign policy interests.
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What Is Armed Force?
In this free resource on military action, learn how countries use violence, or armed force, to influence foreign policy.
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What Is Peacekeeping?
In this free resource on the successes and failures of peacekeeping, learn about the UN missions tasked with transitioning countries out of war.
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What Is Arms Control?
In this free resource on arms control agreements, learn how countries try to regulate the world’s most powerful weapons through foreign policy.
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What Is Deterrence?
In this free resource, explore examples of deterrence from the Cold War to present day to learn how countries dissuade bad behavior with the threat of significant punishment.
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What Is Intelligence?
From Cold War double agents to Chinese spy balloons, explore how lying and spying inform policymaking in this resource on intelligence.

Learning Journeys

A learning journey is a student facing, curated collection of resources that explore a topic from a specific perspective.

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Approaches to Foreign Policy

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand the critical debates behind foreign policy strategy.

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Tools of Foreign Policy

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand the tools of foreign policy.

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U.S. Foreign Policy

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand U.S. foreign policy.

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Trade: Introduction

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand international trade.

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Trade: Policy

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand the ways in which trade can be used as part of foreign policy.

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Trade: Trade Wars

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand trade relations between the United States and China.

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Will China Invade Taiwan?

Explore Taiwan’s relationships with the United States and China. Then take part in a national security simulation to help avoid future conflict.

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U.S. History Mini Simulations

In this series of historical mini simulations, students step into the shoes of policymakers to advise the U.S. president on how to respond to major foreign policy moments in U.S. history.