U2L1 National Interest and Foreign Policy

Introduction

Key Issue
To what extent do national interest and foreign policy shape each other?

In this unit you will learn about the following big ideas based on the questions arising from the issue question:

• • nations and nation-states pursue national interests in a variety of ways
  • nationalism can affect the decision to pursue national interests
  • nationalism can affect how national interests are pursued
  • pursuit of national interests can have both positive and negative consequences
  • nationalism can foster xenophobia
  • pursuit of national interests should be examined from different perspectives

TERMS national interest peacemaking peacekeepers policy domestic policy foreign policy GDP