GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: September 11 Attacks, Al-Qaeda
Document Summary
Government was designed for gridlock in times when a consensus cannot be reached. Politics in the us foreign policy bureaucracy: how does interagency political competition shape. Us foreign policy? reached by congress and the president. Key function of the executive branch : to implement the foreign policy decisions. Decisions about how to implement policy can alter the policies themselves. Of the responsibilities of the president and national security council staff, over the entire foreign policy bureaucracy. This office was created under the truman administration to help with national security during the cold war and lies within the white house. When different agency heads possess different foreign policy goals or. Competing foreign policy interests different ideas on how to respond to a threat. Creates conflict among agency heads in which they compete for influence with the president. How the president and the national security advisor structure this competition can shape its outcome.
