American
Foreign Policy
American
Foreign Policy
Class
Schedule
I. Introduction
Week 1 January 25
Introduction: No reading
Week 2-3 January 29-February 6
Searching for Guidance in the Post Cold War Era
Traub: Downsizing Foreign Policy
Haas, "Beyond Containment: Competing American Foreign Policy Doctrines for the New Era," ch. 1 in Wittkopf and Jones
Gholz, et al., "Come Home America: The Strategy of Restraint int eh Face of Temptation," ch. 3 in W&J
Nye, "Conflicts after the Cold War: Realism, Liberalism and U.S. Interests," ch. 5 in W&J
Ikenberry, "The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos," ch. 7 in W&J
Weeks 3-4 February 8-15
The Historical Backdrop
Snow and Brown, ch. 2
Diebel, "Strategies before Containment: Patterns for the Future," ch. 6
in W&J
Case
1: Brussel: "The Cuban Missile Crisis"
Snow and Brown, ch. 3
Weeks 5-6 February 20-29
Promoting American Ideals Abroad?
Case 2: Treverton:
"Covert Action in Chile"
Snow and Brown, ch. 1
(R)Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, excerpts
(R)Robert Kagan, "The Benevolent Empire"
Brinkley, "Democratic Enlargement: The Clinton Doctrine," ch. 2 in K&J
III. Domestic Actors and the Policy Process
Week 6-7 March 1-6
The Executive
Snow and Brown, ch. 4.
Snow and Brown, ch. 5
(R) Irving Janus, "Escalation of the Vietnam War: How Could it Happen?"
Week 7-8 March 8-15
Congress
Snow and Brown, ch. 6
March
13: In-class Midterm
Week 9 March 20-22
Spring Break
Week 10 March 27-29
Congress and the Executive
Snow and Brown, ch. 7
Case #3: Auger: The War
Powers Resolution and U.S. Policy in Lebanon
Week 11 April 3-5
Societal Influences
Snow and Brown, chs. 8-9
(R) Marie Gottschalk, "Operation Desert Cloud: The Media and the
Gulf War"
Steele, Temptation of a Superpower, ch. 6
Week 12 April 10-12
Security in a Changing World
Snow and Brown, ch 10; pp. 358-67
Steele, Temptation of a Superpower, chs. 3, 5
(R) William Greider, Fortress America: The American Military and
the Consequences of the Peace, ch 1.
Betts, "The New Threat of Mass Destruction," ch. 25 in K&J
Case #4: Russell: "American
Military Retaliation for Terrorism
Week 13 April 17-19
Making Economic Policy
Snow and Brown, ch. 11; pp. 367-81
Morici, "Exporting Our Way to Prosperity," ch. 27 in K&J
Case #5: Lovely: Thinking
Globally, Acting Locally"
Weeks 14-15 April 24-May 3
Contemporary Challenges
Case #6: (R) New York
Times, "Crisis in the Balkans: The Road to War"
Snow and Brown, ch. 12
SChase, et al., "Pivitol States and U.S. Strategy," ch. 20 in W&J
Broad and Cavanagh, "Don't Neglect the Impoverished South," ch. 21 in W&J
Case #7: Ortmeyer and
Flynn, "Hamstrung Over Haiti
Week 16 May 8
Course Wrap-up
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