Foreign Policy
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Doctors without Borders
By: Ryan Hughes and Jenise Linssen
Foreign Policy and Internationalism
• Decisions about how to deal with other
countries.
• Clothes, many things you eat, shows and
music may come from other countries.
Influences of Foreign Policy
• Dictatorship- Leaders make decisions without consulting
the people
• Democracy- Foreign Policy reflects beliefs, values, and
goals and the countries citizens. Individuals, groups and
collective influence governments decisions on foreign
policy.
• Goals help guide actions of the government. These goals
should reflect values of citizens and help develop the
future of the country.
For example- Canadians have the right to vote and have
freedom of speech which influences Canada’s foreign
policy.
Foreign Policy in a Globalizing
• Governments and diplomats were main players in
international affairs until after world war II.
• Increased pace of globalization lowered roles
played by nation-states in international affairs.
• Multinational corporations and international
businesses play a more important role.
• Domestic and foreign policy are so closely linked
it is hard to distinguish between the two.
Who Are Doctors without Borders and
When were they started?
• Created by Doctors and Journalists in 1971.
• Independent of any political, military, or
religious agendas.
• They are doctors, nurses, logistics experts,
administrators, epidemiologists, laboratory
technicians, and mental health professionals.
• International medicinal humanitarian
organization.
What does Doctors without Borders
Do?
• Provide medical aid to countries whose
peoples survival is threatened- they are
neutral in cases of armed conflict, and will
provide care based on need only.
• Challenges inadequacies or abuse of aid
system and advocate improved medical
treatment and protocols.
• Speak out to bring awareness to neglected
crisis's
Where are Doctors without Borders?
• Doctors without borders providing aid in over
60 countries.
• They have 19 affairs around the world.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong
Kong, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom,
and the United States.
Why was Doctors without Borders
Created?
• To provide care for those who need it.
• To create better medical treatment, and
protocol.
• To raise awareness for on going crisis’s.
• To better humanity 
How does Doctors without Borders
promote Internationalism?
• Prevent/Cure Disease.
• Promote Human Rights.
Is the Organization Successful?
• It’s goals are worth while.
• It is meeting its goals. For example they are
working in refugee camps, providing health
care, water purification, and vaccination. Hold
rally’s to raise awareness, one on going now is
“Critical voices from the war in Eastern
Congo”
Is the Organization Successful Cont.
• They come to peoples aid as it is needed every
time.
• They have achieved long term goals;
-Calling for military service in Rwanda.
-Lowered the price of HIV/AIDS treatment.
Extent to which Doctors without
Borders promote Internationalism?
Doctors without borders promotes
internationalism to a fairly high extent by
preventing and curing diseases, and
protecting human rights. They are going into
other countries around the world to provide
medical aid, regardless of race, religion, or
political affiliation.
MSF received the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in
recognition of its members' continuous effort to
provide medical care in acute crises, as well as
raising international awareness of potential
humanitarian disasters.
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