Learning Objective 7.1: Discuss the factors at play in the tensions between democratic governance and foreign policy.

Video

• Constructing public opinion
  
  • Summary: A short video describing the effect of news media coverage on public opinion.

• Clinton on Kosovo
  
  • Summary: President Bill Clinton’s address to the nation regarding U.S. intervention in the Kosovo conflict.

Web Resources

• Assessing U.S. educational progress
  
  • Summary: The results of a national assessment of educational achievement.

• Opinion and the Iraq War
  
  • Summary: The results of a Gallup poll on public opinion of the withdrawal from Iraq.

• Who was Edmund Burke?
  
  • Summary: A brief biography of 18th century writer Edmund Burke.

• Iraq War timeline
  
  • Summary: A chronological profile of Iraq.

• Anti-American Sentiment
  
  • Summary: The results of polls regarding sentiments towards countries around the world from foreign countries.

• Iran-Contra: A chronology
  
  • Summary: A timeline of the Iran-Contra affair.

• Who said, ‛Politics stops…’?
  
  • Summary: A brief biography of the senator credited with saying that partisan politics must “stop at the water’s edge.”

 

Learning Objective 7.2: Identify the shifts in public opinion since World War II.

Web Resources

• Public opinion on Muslims
  
  • Summary: The results of a poll on public opinion regarding Muslims.

• Clinton’s foreign policy performance
  
  • Summary: A review of poll data of opinion on President Bill Clinton’s foreign policy.

• Restoring U.S. credibility abroad
  
  • Summary: A report on public opinion in Europe regarding relations with the U.S. on several issues.

• Foreign policy fatigue: poll
  
  • Summary: A radio program discussing polls suggesting that the American public has lost interest in foreign policy.

 

Learning Objective 7.3: Describe how foreign policy views can be affected by 3 primary areas of group identity.

Web Resources

• Gender gap
  
  • Summary: An article asserting that foreign policy should be viewed through the lens of women’s issues in national elections.

• Foreign policy elite
  
  • Summary: An opinion article by Paul Krugman on the failure of elite wisdom during the recession.

• Nature of Public Opinion
  
  • Summary: An essay arguing that polls were consistently misrepresented in news media in the lead-up to the Iraq War.

• Public opinion on the UN
  
  • Summary: A slideshow regarding a small survey conducted on support for the United Nations.

• Election 2012: Comparing party platforms
  
  • Summary: An article comparing the foreign policy platforms of the RNC and DNC during the 2012 presidential election.