Question

Which best describes the Doctrine of Enlargement? a foreign policy stance that advocates multilateral engagement for the good and protection of an allied country a foreign policy stance that sets up a hierarchy within an alliance and puts US interests first a foreign policy stance that seeks to open markets, promote democracy, and defend weaker nations a foreign policy stance that espouses a unilateral approach to protecting the best interests of the United States a foreign policy stance that assumes the interests of many nations can be met without engagement

Answer 1

The Doctrine of Enlargement, also known as the Clinton Doctrine, is a foreign policy stance that seeks to promote democracy, and open markets. It also defends weaker nations.

Answer 2

The correct option is "a foreign policy stance that seeks to open markets, promote democracy, and defend weaker nations"

The Clinton Doctrine was not defined as such until February 26, 1999 by the President himself. But the principles that governed it had already been applied by the "Clintonian" foreign policy based on the humanitarian intervention in Somalia in 1993. Such a policy, dubbed the doctrine of the "Humanitarian Wars", was described as the faculty, or better the right of the United States to intervene militarily in other states in order to end the persecution or mass killings of civilian populations for ethnic, racial or religious reasons. Clinton defined genocide and crimes against humanity as national interests, thus allowing direct interference. Therefore, the United States would be obligated to act if they had the opportunity and were prepared to end the perpetration of crimes against humanity anywhere in the world; as well as, to prevent the spread of those conflicts and their consequences. In this way the United States would assume the role of "world police" obtaining the legitimate use of force.