Foreign Policy Options:

• Do Nothing
• Presidential Statement
• Call for Negotiations
• Propaganda
• Economic Aid
• Economic Sanctions
• Military Advisors
• Military Presence
• Military Threats
• Blockade
• Troop Mobilization
• Subversive Action
• Bombing
• Use of Troops/Invasion

Foreign Policy Objectves:

• Socio-Psychological factors
• The desire for power
• The need to dominate or redeem a past loss, to "save face"
• To restore or advance national pride or prestige
• Raw Materials
• The need for food, basic raw materials, ports, etc.
• Markets
• Competition for consumers, finished products, raw materials, services or investment markets
• Ideology
• To spread an ideoogy (political, religious, economic or other) or to stop the spread of a competing ideology
• Overpopulation
• The need to obtain new lands to relieve population pressures
• Ethnocentrism
• To advance the interests of a national or racial group at the expense of another group considered to be hostile and/or inferior
• Internal Cohesion
• To maintain, restore, or advance national cohesion by uniting the public against a hostile "outside force"
• National Security
• Actions to protect the nation from external threats
• Self-Determination
• The desire to free a racial, religious, or ethnic group from the domination of another
• Humanitarianism
• To further the cause of international stabiliy and justice, halt the aggressive or oppressive tactics of another state
• To improve the global quality of life and provide relief for victims of natural and human tragedies