U.S. Foreign Policy

	Politics and Government 330 Instructor:  Michael Clancy United States Foreign Policy Office: Hillyer 123c University of Hartford Spring 2006 MWF: 12:30-1:20 Phone: 768-4284 E-mail me Office Hours: M,W: 1:30-2:30 and by appt.
	Class Schedule

Week 1
1/25	Introduction: No Reading
1/27	The U.S. in 2006
	The White House: National Security Strategy of the United States
	Explanatory Frameworks and Historical Background
Week 2
1/30	Realism
	*Laura Neak, The New Foreign Policy, pp. 11-20 *Hans Morgenthau, In Defense of the National Interest, ch. 1 *Hans Morgenthau, A New Foreign Policy for the United States, pp. 241-4; 121-9
2/1	Realism (II)
	Condoleeza Rice, "Promoting the National Interest," Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2000)
2/3	Liberalism
	*Donald Snow and Eugene Brown, Beyond the Water's Edge, pp. 8-15 Bacevich, The New American Militarism, ch. 1
Week 3
2/6	Critical Approaches
	*Neack, The New Foreign Policy, pp. 21-26 *Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, ch. 1; excerpts
2/8	Case # 1: Treverton, "Covert Action in Chile"
2/10	Group Case Day: Meet with Professor
Week 4
2/13	Styles in Foreign Policy
	*Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and how it Changed the World, pp. 3-29
2/15	From Isolationism to Globalism
	*Bruce Jentlesen, American Foreign Policy, ch. 3
	*X "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, 65, 1947
2/17	Catch-up Day
Week 5
2/20	The Cold War
	Case #2: Brussel, "The Cuban Missile Crisis"
2/22	Library Research Day: Meet in front of Mortenson
2/24	The End of the Cold War
	*Hook and Spanier, American Foreign Policy Since WW II, ch. 10
	Domestic Actors and the Policy Process
Week 6
2/27	Leaders and Foreign Policy
	Michael Nelson, "Person and Office: Presidents, the Presidency and Foreign Policy," ch. 9 in W&M
3/1	The President
	Louis Fisher, "Presidential Wars," ch. 10 in W&M
3/3	George W. Bush
	Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, chs. 1-3 Fred Greenstein, "The Changing Leadership of George W. Bush: A Pre- and Post-9/11 Comparison
Week 7
3/6	In-class Midterm
3/8	Presidential Advisors
	Ivo Daalder and I.M Desteler, "How National Security Advisors See their Roles," James C. Thomson, Jr., "How Could Vietnam Happen?: An Autopsy" chs. 11 and 18 in W&M Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, ch. 4
3/10	Case Day: Meet with Professor
Week 8
3/13	The Executive Branch
	Strobe Talbot, "Globalization and Diplomacy: The View from Foggy Bottom" Eliot Cohen, "A Tale of Two Secretaries," chs. 13-14 in W&M
3/15	Congress
	Case #3: Lovely: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally"
3/17	Congress (II)
	James Lindsay, "From Deference to Activism and Back again: Congress and the Politics of American Foreign Policy," ch. 12 in W and M
Week 9
3/20-24	Spring Break!
Week 10
3/27	Congress vs. the President
	Case #4: Auger: The War Powers Resolution and U.S. Policy in Lebanon
3/29	Washington and Defense Procurement
	Steve Smith, "Roles, Politics, and the Survival of the V-22 Osprey," ch. 20 in W&M
3/31	Public Opinion
	Shoon Kathleen Murray and Christopher Spinosa, "The Post-9/11 Shift in Public Opinion: How Long Will it Last?", ch. 7 in W&M
Week 11
4/3	Elections
	Miroslav Nincic, "Elections and U.S. Foreign Policy," ch. 8 in W&M
4/5	Interest Groups and the Media
	Philip Brenner, Patrick J. Haney, and Walter Vanderbush, "Intermestic Interests and U.S. Policy toward Cuba," ch. 5 in W&M *Marie Gottschalk, "Operation Desert Cloud: the Media and the Gulf War"
	Contemporary Issues in Foreign Policy
4/7	Security in a Changing World
	Robert Kagan,  "Power and Weakness" Policy Review, June 2002
Week 12
4/10	The Age of Anti-Americanism?
	Joseph Nye, "Beyond September 11" Stanley Hoffmann, "Why Don't They Like Us? How America has Become the Object of Much of the Planet's Genuine Grievances--and Displaced Discontent," chs. 1&2 in W&M
4/12	Confronting Terror
	Case #5: Russell: "American Military Retaliation for Terrorism" Book Review, The Age of Sacred Terror, The New York Times
4/14	Case Day: Meet with Professor
Week 13
4/17	Confronting Terror (II)
	Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, chs. 6-7
4/19	The Bush Doctrine and Iraq
	Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, chs. 8-10
4/21	American Empire?
	Bacevich, The New American Militarism, chs. 2-4
Week 14
4/24	The Limits of Empire
	Bacevich, The New American Militarism, remainder
4/26	Humanitarian Intervention
	John Western, "Sources of Humanitarian Intervention: Beliefs, Information, and Advocacy in U.S. Decisions on Somalia and Bosnia," ch. 23 in W&M
4/28	Securing the Borders (I): Drugs
	Case #6: Boykoff and LeoGrande, "Certifying Mexico on the War on Drugs"
Week 15
5/1	America in a Globalized World
	USTR, "Trade Facts" Additional Reading TBA
5/3	Development and the Global South
	Council on Foreign Relations, "Foreign Aid" Additional Reading TBA
5/5	The Environment
	Case #7: Ortmayer and Cottrell, "Deja Vu (All Over Again)? The Bush Administration Withdraws from the Kyoto Global Warming Process"
Week 16
5/8	Course Wrap-up
	No Reading Take-Home Final Exam Distributed

 

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