{"id":133215,"date":"2024-08-22T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/the-us-divide-on-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:10:41","slug":"the-us-divide-on-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/the-us-divide-on-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The US divide on foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133215\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThis gap between Democrats and Republicans on foreign policy \u2014 and America\u2019s role in the world \u2014 is one that\u2019s been steadily evolving over the past decade. And it\u2019s a shift that reflects a fundamental change in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast \u201cWorld Review with Ivo Daalder.\u201d He writes POLITICO\u2019s Across the Pond column. As Democrats gather in Chicago this week for their quadrennial convention, the mood is markedly different than it was just a month ago. At that time, the party\u2019s presidential candidate was dropping in the polls after a disastrous debate performance and facing the prospect of defeat. Now, their candidate is riding a wave of enthusiasm, improving polling numbers and almost smelling victory in November.<\/p>\n<p>However, though President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to drop out of the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris has fundamentally altered the electoral contest, much remains the same. This is still a close election where a few thousand votes in a few battleground states will likely determine the outcome \u2014 and the country itself remains deeply divided and polarized. This division concerns not only voter preferences for parties and their candidates but also major issues like foreign and security policy \u2014 long an area of much greater agreement across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The change is especially apparent among Republican voters. The views of Reagan Republicans, who favor strong alliances, free markets and support democracy and freedom abroad, are now increasingly scarce among the party\u2019s supporters. And the latest annual survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, conducted in late June, affirms this remarkable gap in how Republicans and Democrats see the world and America\u2019s role in it.<\/p>\n<p>The survey question most indicative of this division, whether \u201cit will be better for the future of the country if we take an active part in world affairs or if we stay out of world affairs,\u201d shows that a bare majority of Republicans (54 percent) currently favor an active role, as opposed to the two-thirds (68 percent) of Democrats who do. And though an improvement over last year, Republican support for an active U.S. role was the second lowest it\u2019s been over the last 50 years \u2014 including 20 percent lower than in 2004 and 18 percent lower than in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Consistent with this change, only 13 percent of Republicans believe that as the strongest and richest country, the U.S. \u201chas the responsibility to take a leading role in world affairs,\u201d while 57 percent think \u201cit needs to reduce its involvement in world affairs\u201d because the country has limited resources and its own problems at home. By contrast, 65 percent of Democrats support the U.S. taking a leading role on the world stage while also taking care of problems at home.<\/p>\n<p>On issue after issue, Republicans now favor less engagement in world affairs than Democrats do \u2014 which is a sharp shift from the Reagan era. For example, just one-in-five Republicans that took part in our survey think it\u2019s very important to protect weaker nations against aggression, or promote and defend human rights in another country. And only one-in-seven think it\u2019s very important to limit climate change.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, 44 percent of participating Democrats believe it\u2019s very important to protect weaker nations, 47 percent support promoting human rights, 57 percent think strengthening the U.N. is very important and 74 percent see limiting climate change as a very important goal of U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to alliances \u2014 long the centerpiece of American foreign policy \u2014 Republicans are increasingly souring on security commitments. Four-in-10 believe alliances \u201cmostly benefit our allies,\u201d mainly because allies don\u2019t pay their fair share, whereas three-quarters of Democrats believe alliances either benefit the U.S. (16 percent) most, or benefit both the U.S. and its allies (56 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, while support for free trade has long been a moniker of Republicanism, today a majority (55 percent) actually favor reducing trade and seeking \u201cgreater self-sufficiency in all areas.\u201d Just 20 percent of Republican respondents prefer pursuing free trade globally, and only 21 percent prefer creating a trading bloc with friends and partners. Interestingly, free trade currently has much stronger support among Democrats, with two-thirds favoring either global trade (43 percent) or a trade bloc with friends (24 percent).<\/p>\n<p>These diverging perspectives on America\u2019s global role and the extent of its engagement in the rest of the world naturally result in stark differences over how the U.S. should approach the two major ongoing wars in Ukraine and Israel as well.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/united-states-divide-foreign-policy-democrats-republicans\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/united-states-divide-foreign-policy-democrats-republicans\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/the-us-divide-on-foreign-policy\/\">The US divide on foreign policy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15784,574,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-foreign-policy","tag-us","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}