McMurray - Modern U.S. Foreign Policy

Is the U.S. justified in challenging and upending the principles of collective security and international cooperation that shaped the post-WWII global order?  Discuss the actions and rhetoric of the Trump Administration towards NATO.

• Foner pages 730-732, 756-761 

Topic Portals:

• World War I Topic Portal
• Isolationism Topic Portal

Articles:

• Washington Post Article: A Century Later, America Must Learn From One of It's Greatest Blunders
• NATO Background
• United Nations Background
• International Monetary Fund Background
• Truman Doctrine

Open-Access:

• John Green's Crash Course: WWI

Topic Portals

• NATO Expansion

Articles

• Wilson Quarterly - Black Hole at the Heart of NATO
• OPINION: What's the U.S. Role in NATO?
• The Economist: NATO at 100.  The Next Three Decades

• CQ Researcher - European Union at a Crossroads
• CQ Researcher - U.S. Foreign Policy in Transition