Foreign Affairs and Defense

Illustrated Concepts, Facts, and Figures

• Active Duty Military Personnel Strength Levels Since World War II

• Constitutional Powers in Foreign Policy

• Instruments of International Economic Power: Inducements and Sanctions

• Major U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrines

• Military Expenditures by Nations

• Top Arms Exporters, 1997-1999

• Top Arms Importers, 1997-1999

• U.S. Military Personnel in Foreign Territories (2003)

• U.S. Should Not Concern Itself with World Problems

• U.S. Wars

Audio Features

Video Features

• Atomic Bomb Testing in the Nevada Desert, circa 1946 (4:47)

• Bush Deploys Troops in the First Gulf War (0:54)

• Comparing Clinton and Bush (James Lindsay - 2:40)

• Creating a "Unitary Executive" (Elspeth Rostow - 8:38)

• Eisenhower Announces an End to the Korean Conflict (0:50)

• Eisenhower Describes U.S. Policy toward Russia (1:20)

• Exercising War Powers (James Lindsay - 3:13)

• Expanding the "Pool of Power" (Elspeth Rostow - 4:35)

• FDR Meets with Middle East Leaders, 1945 (2:16)

• Framers' Concerns (Peter Trubowitz - 3:48)

• Invitation to Struggle (James Lindsay - 1:46)

• Kennedy Alerts the Public to the Cuban Missile Crisis (1:01)

• Kennedy Declares, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (1:50)

• Perceptions of Security (Peter Trubowitz - 2:24)

• Presidential Initiative and Iraq (Peter Trubowitz - 5:08)

• Reagan Calls on Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall" (2:02)

• Secretary of State Asserts Presidential Prerogative (1:37)

• The Division of Berlin, 1961 (1:52)

• Truman Announces Germany's Surrender (0:46)

• Truman Announces Use of Atomic Bomb to End World War Two (1:04)

Cartoon Features

• Monroe Doctrine

• Teddy Roosevelt in the Caribbean (1904)

Image Features

• Atomic Bomb Test 1951

• President Bush Addressing the UN General Assembly (2005)

• President Bush at the UN Security Council Summit (2005)

• President Bush Visits the Troops in Iraq

• President Lyndon Johnson Greets Troops in Vietnam (1966)

• President Nixon and Chairman Mao (1972)

• Secretary Rice Meets Chinese President Hu Jintao (2005)

• UN Secretary General Annan at the White House (2004)

• United Nations General Assembly

• United Nations Headquarters in New York

• Vice President Cheney Meets with Afghan President (2005)

Web Resources

Glossary