PO 482: American Foreign Policy

PO 326: American Foreign Policy

Fall 2006

Syllabi and Course Documents:

PO 326-01: American Foreign Policy (M W 11:00-12:15)

PO 326-02: American Foreign Policy (T H 9:25-10:40)

PO 326-03: American Foreign Policy (T H 1:15-2:30)

Washington's Farewell Address

Kristol, "The Neoconservative Persuasion"

Questions to be Considered for Foreign Policy Debate

Web Resources:

Foreign Policy Analysis Section Web Site (International Studies Association)

Foreign Affairs Online (foreign policy search engine/reference page)

Foreign Affairs (Journal)

Foreign Policy (Magazine)

American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) Home Page

Lecture Notes:

Lecture 1: The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962

Lecture 2: The Rational Choice Model of Foreign Policy

Lecture 3: Rational Choice Analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lecture 4: The Organizational Model of Foreign Policy

Lecture 5: Organizational Analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lecture 6: The Governmental or "Bureaucratic" Politics Model of Foreign Policy

Lecture 7: Bureaucratic Politics Analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Lecture 8: Psychological Factors and Foreign Policy Decision-Making

Lecture 9: Isolationism to Imperial Power: US Foreign Policy to 1919

Lecture 10: The Return of Reluctance: Interwar US Foreign Policy

Lecture 11: The Rise to World Power: World War II

Lecture 12: The Eagle and the Bear: The Doctrine of Containment and the Cold War, 1945-1950

Lecture 13: The Dam Breaks: Korea and Containment in the 1950s

Lecture 14: The Delicate Balance of Terror: Nuclear Deterrence and MAD

Lecture 15: Phantom Dominoes: Vietnam and Containment in the 1960s

Lecture 16: Containment Overhauled: Nixon, Détente, and “Triangulation”

Lecture 17: On the Offensive: The Reagan Doctrine and the fall of the Soviet Union

Lecture 18: To the Victor go the Spoils?: US Foreign Policy at the End of the 20^th Century

Lecture 19: The Importance of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

Lecture 20: The Bush Doctrine and Operations in Afghanistan

Lecture 21: The "Preemptive Corollary" and Operations in Iraq

Lecture 22: Whither American Foreign Policy Today?

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