Global Challenges and the focus of U.S. Foreign Policy

GO 251-B Prof. Vacs Felix Idehen Global Challenges and the focus of U.S. Foreign Policy In the years since the end of the Cold War, the United States has confronted global challenges on many different fronts. Of the many, economic, environmental, and strategic challenges pose the greatest of problems to the U.S. Currently, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, U.S. policymakers have focused around these issues in an attempt to prioritize …

…still ambiguity as to the location of the nuclear weapons possessed by the USSR at the time of its collapse. The issue surrounding WMDs is so volatile because of the reality that tomorrow some radical terrorist can enter the U.S. borders and detonate a weapon. It is because of the very nature of this problem that I believe special attention should be dedicated to this problem over the others in U.S. foreign policy.