PRIMER ON FOREIGN POLICY

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PRIMER ON FOREIGN POLICYFOR CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATESVoters are often told that candidates for the Congress lack any FOREIGN POLICY platform because they don t know enough about the topic and don t plan to focus on it. The following is meant to quickly remedy that BY David SwansonJanuary 2022RootsAction Education Fund | PRIMER on FOREIGN POLICY for Congressional Candidates2The Federal Budget 3The Militarization of Other Nations 5Foreign Aid Bases 6The Rule of Law 7War Powers 9Wars 9Nuclear Weapons 11 National Security 11Sanctions 13Global Cooperation 13Intersectionality 14Jobs 15 Leading the World Public Opinion 17Examples of Successful Candidates Platforms 20Unwarranted Influence 29Recommendations 30PRIMER ON FOREIGN POLICYFOR CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATESVoters are often told that candidates

• Principles of International Cooperation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition, and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity • Convention on Cluster Munitions • Land Mines Convention • Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons War or threat of war, or economic sanctions that inflict collective punishment,

  International, Treaty, Extradition