What is the global context of U.S. Foreign Policy?

The global environment plays a significant role in the politics of U.S. foreign policy in two principal ways. First, global structures and patterns set the “underlying” conditions or parameters of likely U.S. foreign policy. Second, particular world events and relationships often have an “immediate” impact on domestic politics and the U.S. policymaking process. Although there are numerous ways to organize these larger contextual patterns, it is useful to speak of three sets of developments, or major stages, in the evolution of the global environment and American power that have been dominant since World War II and which correspond to the history of U.S. globalism: The rise of a global Cold War and American hegemony from the 1940s to 1960s; Increasing global complexity and the relative decline of American power from 1960s to 1980s; The post-cold war era in world politics : The Soviet collapse, 9/11 and American renewal, from the 1990s into the twenty-first century.

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