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 certain global challenges in future U.S. foreign policies.

One of the goals of U.S. foreign economic policy has been economic security, including a promotion of domestic prosperity and minimization of negative foreign economic impact. However, the U.S. has had trouble realizing this goal. The U.S. role in global economics took off shortly after WWII. The U.S. emerged from the war having not suffered destruction, as many other countries had. Taking advantage of this situation, the Marshall Plan was implemented. The Marshall Plan entailed giving monetary aid to developing democracies, which would aid the replacement of the old model with a new liberal, free trade, free-market capitalist system. It also established international organizations such as the International M

At a more alarming level is the issue of the strategic dilemmas facing the U.S. in this post-cold war era. The main threats to U.S. and global security are the rouge states including countries, such as China, Iraq, and Cuba, terrorism, and regional conflicts such as with India and Pakistan. These threats are amplified by the possibility of the use of nuclear, biological, and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as aids to rogue states, terrorism, and regional conflicts. As WMDs have been a concern of the U.S. since the cold war era, efforts have been taken to control the production of such weapons. Both the U.S. and USSR engaged in a number of negotiations in the past to reduce significantly the number of WMDs possessed by each power. Proliferation is still as much, if not moreso, an interest of the U.S. and is present in its policy towards strategic challenges. However, as there is an uncertainty as to whom has these weapons or when they will be used, a sense of urgency has been created along with this problem.

The last of the global challenges to the U.S. is what is viewed by many as the least important while being the least controllable and potentially having the most global impact. Environmental problems have always been a concern in the global arena. However, as it has yet to manifest itself, this problem is ignored. The environmental problems are two part: global and regional. The global problems have been cited as climate change (global warming), erosion of the ozone layer, preserving biological diversity, rainforests, and oceans, and toxic chemical. Regional problems include water resources, air quality, energy resources, and land use (overpopulation). This is truly a global problem as it involves both domestic actors (Executive, Congress, Beuracracy (state dept., DOE, DOC, DOD), Interest groups (business, environmental), non-governmental organizations (Greenpeace), experts, the media, and the public) and inter

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