#723-- La Shomb



Crisis Management -- Foreign Policy

Directions: Given a foreign policy scenario- Discuss with your group the following options available to the president. Then design a chart, indicating which alternatives the President has in attempting to resolve the crisis. The chart must include:

I. Consider the following constituencies that the President has to contend with in resolving his crisis. Indicate on your chart which group(s) the President will confer with in resolving the crisis.

• Congressional Leadership:

• Special Interest Groups

• American Citizens

• Federal Bureaucracy

• Cabinet Secretaries

• Foreign allies

• Media outlets

• EOB

• White House Staff

• Misc. Presidential advisors (ad-hoc committee members)

II. Presidential options: Which of the following does your group wish to consider:

1. Do Nothing 2. Presidential statement (censure)

3. Call for Negotiations 4. Propaganda Barrage

5. Economic Aid (to whom) 6. Economic Sanctions

7. Military advisors 8. Military support materials

9. Military presence (army, Navy (also referred to as saber rattling)

10. Military threats 11. Blockade

12. Troop Mobilization 13. Subversive action (counter- espionage)

14. Espionage 15. Bombing or escalation

16. Use of Troops (conventional) 17. unconventional

18. Invasion 19. Re-activate the draft

20. Mobilize the home front 21. Coalition development

III. Indicate the time frame necessary to successfully resolving this issue.

IV. Title for this operation.

Crisis Management Scenario

A fanatical religious group has overrun your embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. The ambassador and a small group of embassy personnel have been taken hostage and the State Department is currently negotiating their release. The Indonesian government is reluctant to intervene because the radical group could generate support among the masses, causing an already unstable government to fall. Indonesia is your ally and your government currently supports it with military and humanitarian aid. Indonesian is the oil mecca of Asia, but it also has the largest concentration of people in the world with a wide diverse socio-economic climate.

At the same time a dictatorial regime in Mali is terrorizing its native population in Africa and Red Cross estimates that over 1 million citizens are fleeing the country, putting extreme pressure on neighboring states. Many have claimed that they will close their borders to Mali, forcing the refugees to stay inside Mali and face extermination.

And the Hong Kong stock market is expecting a run on their market tomorrow, sending stock prices crashing. This event could impact the US stock exchange as yen, marks, francs, pesos and the US dollar will be impacted directly.

Foreign Policy Scenarios

Name____________________________ Name_____________________Name ______________

I. Title of Operation: ____________________

A. Constituencies: _______________________________________________________________

2._____________________________________________________________________________

3._____________________________________________________________________________

4._____________________________________________________________________________

B. Presidential Options: 1)_________________________________________________________

2)____________________________________________________________________________

3)____________________________________________________________________________

4)____________________________________________________________________________

C. Time Frame _________________________________________________________________

II Title of Operation: ____________________

A. Constituencies: _______________________________________________________________

2._____________________________________________________________________________

3._____________________________________________________________________________

4._____________________________________________________________________________

B. Presidential Options: 1)_________________________________________________________

2)____________________________________________________________________________

3)____________________________________________________________________________

4)____________________________________________________________________________

C. Time Frame _________________________________________________________________

III. Title of Operation _________________________

A. Constituencies: _______________________________________________________________

2._____________________________________________________________________________

3._____________________________________________________________________________

4._____________________________________________________________________________

B. Presidential Options: 1)_________________________________________________________

2)____________________________________________________________________________

3)____________________________________________________________________________

4)____________________________________________________________________________

C. Time Frame _________________________________________________________________

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