Chapter 2: Competing Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy

1. To understand the competing role of “values” and “interests” in U.S. foreign policy.
2. To identify and explain recurrent and competing orientations in U.S. foreign policy: isolationism and internationalism, unilateralism and multilateralism, and interventionism and non-interventionism. 
3. To explain and offer examples of the historical evolution of recurrent and competing orientations in U.S. foreign policy.
4. To recognize the impact of events since 9/11 on the balance between multilateralism and unilateralism in U.S. foreign policy.