Monetary and fiscal impacts on exchange rates

Foreign exchange rates ; Fiscal policy ; Monetary policy ; Budget deficits ; Dollar, American

The Garden

An essay about the importance of human rights in American foreign policy, framed through the work of Thomas Jefferson. Inspired by the author’s visit to the Jefferson Memorial and the American garden in Washington D.C

The Garden

An essay about the importance of human rights in American foreign policy, framed through the work of Thomas Jefferson. Inspired by the author’s visit to the Jefferson Memorial and the American garden in Washington D.C

Fiscal policies and exchange rates

Fiscal policy ; Foreign exchange ; Econometric models ; Dollar, American

U.S. budget deficits and the real value of the dollar

Foreign exchange rates ; Dollar, American ; Fiscal policy ; Budget deficits

Misaligned dollar

Foreign exchange rates ; Dollar, American ; Interest rates ; Budget deficits ; Monetary policy - United States

The global resurgence of religion and the desecularization of American foreign policy, 1990-2012

This thesis conceptually and empirically explores how American foreign policy is changing under the domestic and international pressures brought about by social and cultural processes associated with the global resurgence of religion. It argues that in response to these pressures the American foreign policy establishment, and American diplomatic, foreign assistance and national security practices and institutions are gradually undergoing, since the end of the Cold War andespecially following September 11, processes of “desecularization”. In order to explain these foreign policy changes, this thesis develops a Historical Sociological (HS) approach to Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This theoretical framework allows investigating the complex causal mechanisms that have led to the emergence of “desecularizing actors” at the domestic American level, which are embedded or responding to macro-processes of religious resurgence at home and abroad. These desecularizing actors have mobilized at the micro-level to challenge at critical historical junctures what they perceive is the problematic secular character of American foreign policy intellectual traditions, state practices and policy-making structures. In order to advance their preferred inherently religious policy agendas, desecularizing actors have articulated a number of principled and strategic discourses, which enable them to successfully contest and renegotiate the boundaries between “the secular” and “the religious” in American foreign policy. This thesis draws from ongoing conceptual debates in the sociology of religion on desecularization and applies this concept to that of a state’s foreign policy. It unpacks how processes of desecularization have taken place at multiple levels and with different intensities across the American foreign policy apparatus. This thesis identifies two broad processes that relate to foreign policy desecularization. First, processes of “countersecularization” in terms of a growing entanglement between functionally differentiated American secular state practices and policy-making structures, and religious norms and actors. Second, processes of “counter-secularism” in terms of a progressive weakening of dominant secular epistemic, ideological, and normative ideational constructs among American policy-makers

U.S. Economic Foreign Policy

I am glad to be here to discuss, with the emphasis rather strongly on the word Economic, the Economic Aspects of For­eign Policy. My remarks will fall under the four principal head­ings: (l) The Principal Conditions That Mold American Foreign Economic Policy; (II) The Objectives of American Foreign Eco­nomic Policy; (III) The Accomplishments of American Foreign Economic Policy, and (IV) Where Do We Stand and What Should we do

The Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration: Terrorism and the Promotion of Democracy

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush announced that he would pursue a distinctly American internationalism in foreign policy (Bush i999a), largely in contrast to the liberal internationalism of the Clinton administration. He initially sought to have a foreign policy that placed greater emphasis on American national interests than on global interests. The 9/11 attacks quickly changed both the content of the administration\u27s foreign policy and the process by which American foreign policy was made. As a result, the administration pursued a foreign policy that was universal in scope and that viewed virtually all international actions as affecting American interests. The efforts to build a coalition of the willing to find and defeat terrorists and tyrants on a worldwide scale illustrated the universal nature of this policy, but the difficulties that the invasion and occupation of Iraq created also demonstrated the limitation of this policy approach..