Monday, February 2, 2009

American within the International System

Here are a few videos from YouTube that illustrate the strong relationship between domestic policy and foreign policy. We'll watch a couple of these in class today.

In 1785 John Adams was appointed American Minister to the Court of St. James, that is, the Ambassador to the United Kingdom, or Great Britain. This clip shows Adams receiving an audience with King George III.



A far right political professor asserts that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was aimed in large measure at British popular opinion:



Woodrow Wilson and World War 1, by eminent historian HW Brands:



HW Brands says American foreign policy is mostly about American domestic politics:

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