Midterm Essay: The Presidency, the Bureaucracy, and Foreign Policy Assignment Instructions

Overview

Our Module 4: Week 4 assignment focuses on the challenges Presidents face in dealing with Executive Branch bureaucracies. In this assignment you will explore and discuss how the presidency and bureaucracy conduct USFP planning and implementation. Dimensions to evaluate are presidential personality, management style, and relations with foreign policy and national security bureaucracies like the National Security Council, State Department, Defense Department, and the CIA.

Instructions

The National Security Council and broader Executive Branch bureaucracy – e.g., State Department, Defense, and the CIA – officially serve the President’s foreign policy agenda. Drawing from Chapters 7 and 8, video presentations, and your own research, offer a critical assessment of at least three different challenges any president faces in working with the NSC and the broach foreign policy bureaucracy to successfully formulate and implement a particular foreign policy program. Provide enough clarity and examples from both chapters and other sources used to defend your three challenges.

· Write a quality 1,500-word research paper addressing the above prompt.

· The paper must be in current Turabian style. The paper must include a title page and reference page also in current Turabian format.

· You must include citations to a sufficient number of appropriate scholarly sources to fully support your assertions and conclusions. Each paper must contain at least 5-7 scholarly sources original to this paper and not including the course textbook.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.