The course schedule may be subject to revisions and updates
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Assignment
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Part 1 The Foundations of America’s Power and International Role
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1
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Course intro
The Geography of American Power
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Read:
Recommended:
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2
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America’s power and purpose: a long-term perspective
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Read:
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Cox: Chapter 2.
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One of the following:
Recommended:
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George Washington, “Farewell Address,” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, September 19, 1796, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200675
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John Quincy Adams's Warning Against the Search for "Monsters to Destroy," 1821, https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/jqadams.htm
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John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839, https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/osulliva.htm .
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Woodrow Wilson, “Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Conditions of Peace ["The Fourteen Points"],” January 8, 1918, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206651
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Cox: Chapter 3.
Debate: Internationalists vs Isolationists.
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Part 2 America and the World
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3
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America’s Rise to Global Power
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Read:
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Cox: Chapter 4.
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Kaufman, Chapter 3.
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Recommended:
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union [The “Four Freedoms” Speech],” January 6, 1941. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/annual-message-congress-the-state-the-union .
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Henry Luce, “The American Century,” Life, February 17, 1941, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/discussions261/luce.pdf
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X [George F. Kennan], "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947, https://jculibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/5857013886
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Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine,” March 12, 1947, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/232818
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George Marshall, The "Marshall Plan" speech at Harvard University, 5 June 1947, https://www.oecd.org/general/themarshallplanspeechatharvarduniversity5june1947.htm .
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"A Report to the National Security Council - NSC 68", April 12, 1950. President's Secretary's File, Truman Papers, https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/documents/pdf/10-1.pdf
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4
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America and the Cold War
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Kaufman, Chapter 4-5.
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McCormick, Chapter 17.
Recommended:
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Address "The Chance for Peace" Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors.," April 16, 1953. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9819
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People," January 17, 1961. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=12086 .
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John F. Kennedy, “Commencement Address at American University in Washington,” June 10, 1963. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9266
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Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida,” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262885
Briefing Memo due
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5
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From 11/9 to 9/11 - America and the “Unipolar Moment”
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Read:
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Kaufman: Chapter 6.
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McCormick, Chapter 20.
Recommended:
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Charles Krauthammer, “The Unipolar Moment" Foreign Affairs, Vol. 70, No. 1 (1990-1991), https://jculibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/4594275480
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Antony Lake, “From Containment to Enlargement”, speech held at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., September 21, 1993, http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/lakedoc.html
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Madeleine Albright, “Yes, There Is a Reason to Be in Somalia”, The New York Times, August 10, 1993, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DE1030F933A2575BC0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted .
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George W. Bush, “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union,” January 29, 2002, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211864 .
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George W. Bush, “Commencement Address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York,” June 01, 2002, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211409 .
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6
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American Foreign Policy After Iraq and the Financial Crisis: Obama, Trump, and Biden.
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Kaufman: Chapter 7.
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McCormick, Chapter 21.
Recommended:
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Barack Obama, “Address to the Nation on the Drawdown of United States Military Personnel in Afghanistan,” June 22, 2011, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/290660
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Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly,” White House - Office of the Press Secretary, September 19, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/19/remarks-president-trump-72nd-session-united-nations-general-assembly
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“Remarks by President Biden on America’s Place in the World,” The White House, February 4, 2021, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/04/remarks-by-president-biden-on-americas-place-in-the-world/
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Barack Obama, “Remarks in Cairo,” Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, June 4, 2009, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/286614
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Barack Obama, “Address to the Nation on the Drawdown of United States Military Personnel in Afghanistan,” June 22, 2011, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/290660
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“Full text: Trump's 2018 UN speech transcript”, Politico, September 25, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/trump-un-speech-2018-full-text-transcript-840043 .
Debate: US Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Continuity and Change
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7
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Mid-term Assessment
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Midterm Review.
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Midterm Exam.
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Part 3 - The Politics of American Foreign Policy
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8
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The Presidency and Congress
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One of the following: McCormick, Chapter 9, 10, 12.
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James Goldgeier and Elizabeth Saunders, “The Unconstrained Presidency: Checks and Balances Eroded Long Before Trump,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 97, Issue 5 (Sep/Oct 2018), https://jculibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/7826448089 .
Recommended:
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9
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The Foreign Policy and National Security Apparatus.
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On the national security apparatus:
On the State Department and the Pentagon:
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One of the following:
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William J. Burns, “The Lost Art of American Diplomacy,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 98 No. 3 (May/June 2019), pp. 98-107, http://search.ebscohost.com.jcu.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=135900372&site=ehost-live
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William J. Burns, "The Demolition of U.S. Diplomacy," Foreign Affairs, October 14, 2019, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-10-14/demolition-us-diplomacy
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Michael O’Hanlon and David Petraeus, “America’s Awesome Military, and How to Make it Even Better,” Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct 2016), pp. 10-17, https://jculibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/6824186774
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10
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Lobbies, the Media, and Public Opinion
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Read:
Debate: TBA
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Part 4 - The United States and the World
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11
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America’s role in Europe
Case study: The US and Russia.
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12
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America and the Middle East
Case Study: The War on Terror
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Read:
Recommended:
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13
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America and the Asia-Pacific
Case Study: The US and China’s Rise
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Read:
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14
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Economic Statecraft and US Foreign Policy
America and the Liberal World Order
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Read:
On Economic Statecraft:
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McCormick, Chapter 16.
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Dani Rodrik, “Globalization’s Wrong Turn: And How It Hurt America,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 98, No. 4 (2019), pp. 26-33, http://search.ebscohost.com.jcu.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=136923442&site=ehost-live
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Salvatore Babones, “Trump’s Gift to China,” Foreign Affairs, November 16, 2016, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2016-11-16/trumps-gift-china
Recommended:
On the US and the Liberal Order:
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Cox, Chapter 22.
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One of the following:
Recommended:
Debate: The Future of American Foreign Policy - Maximalists vs Retrenchers.
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15
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Final Exams
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