The Influence Of Religious Interest Group On U.S. Foreign Decision

The United States is a country of religious atmosphere is very thick. Religion is the root of American values. Study the religion is an important part of the United States. From the war of the United States independence to the isolationist foreign policy religious actively involved in political action. Based on collecting a large number of literature on religious interest groups in America, on the basis of using the method of literature research, historical analysis method and interdisciplinary comprehensive analysis method, how to influence on religious interests us foreign political theory, foreign policy, diplomatic process execution and its important influence on analysis and research.This article is divided into three parts, the first part is introduction, Mainly for the reason of this paper, the method of literature review and research at domestic and abroad.The second part mainly is the main part of the article, mainly expounds the concept of religious interest group, the formation, classification, and characteristics and ideology, the war against the United States, the influence of human rights; Analyzes the religious interest group in terms of values, the church, and interest group itself have the power, the law, the separation of powers and the electoral system set on religious interests of political arrangements, religious interest group as a spiritual pillar, political organizer and talent training of resources; Religious interest group was studied through the way such as congress, the President and party affecting American diplomacy, by election, lobby, to participate in political activities affect U.S. diplomatic and political alliance mode; Finally lists in the "9 ? 11" and other international issues of the religious right influence on American diplomacy. The third part is the conclusion Through the analysis of this article studies have found that religious ideas is the source of traditional American values, the shaping of American society and culture was also a very important role. The study of American religious interests is the basic theory of the research field is very important work.Foreign policy making is a process rather than a simple event, in this process because there are so many factors to consider not only the domestic factors, factors such as the international environment at that time is also very important. So the religious interests will become one of the factors that affect diplomatic decision-making process. And the United States constitution provides the principle of separation of church and state, which makes the religious interest groups to participate in American foreign decision can only be indirect ways. So the religious interests, it is difficult to become a decisive factor. In addition to outside, religious interest groups exist some limitations of subjective. So in the study of American foreign decisions, must be balanced in terms of influencing factors.