Essay and Discussion Questions from Foreign Policy

Approaches to Foreign Policy High School Questions

Help students understand the critical debates behind foreign policy strategy through these essay and discussion questions.

Questions

  1. Why can’t a country be entirely isolationist?
  2. In what ways was the response to the Tiananmen Square massacre idealist? In what ways realist?
  3. Why did George H.W. Bush administration’s response to the Tiananmen Square massacre shift over time?
  4. Do you think U.S. foreign policy should be more isolationist or tend more toward engagement? Why?
  5. Do you think U.S. foreign policy should tend more toward a multilateral or unilateral approach?
  6. Do you think U.S. foreign policy should tend toward a more idealist or realist approach?