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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Spring 2020

Professor: Sebastián Cutrona

E-mail: sebastiancutrona@

Sessions: TBA

Office Hours: TBA

Room: TBA

Location: TBA

Course Overview:

This course examines U.S. foreign policy along different critical junctures. With a special focus

in the second half of the twentieth century, the course critically addresses the U.S. role in global

politics and its contemporary foreign policy challenges around the world. More generally, the

course aims at developing a holistic analytic framework to understand in depth the linkages

among America’s grand strategies, domestic politics, and the international system.

The class meets 15 times in all. The course begins with a review of the principal approaches to

the study of foreign policy: realism, liberalism, constructivism, and neo-Marxism. The second

section examines the institutions and processes that guide foreign policy formation and

implementation. By tracing back America’s grand strategies during the Cold War (1945-1991)

and the post-Cold War period (1991-2001), the third section focuses on the post-September 11

scenario, particularly the Bush and Obama administrations. The course concludes with a review

of some of the more salient foreign policy challenges facing the U.S. in the contemporary era.

Course requirements

Participation: active participation in the class discussion is critical to academic success. Students

are expected to complete the required weekly readings prior to each class meeting. Taking notes

on each reading and discussing it prior to class is highly recommended.

Mid-term exam: there is a mid-term exam in order to evaluate each student progress during the

first part of the class. The exam is based on questions taken from the assigned readings, class

discussions, and lectures. The mid-term exam will be held on week 8.

Case presentation: students are responsible to make one individual presentation on a topic

related to the Trump administration’s foreign policy. The presentation must be accompanied by a

written report from 5 to 6 pages long (double-spaced, 12-font size) due the same day. Examples

of topics are discussed in class. Case presentations will be held on week 14.

Final exam: the final exam is comprehensive, encompassing all the assigned readings during the

course. The final exam will be held on week 15.

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Grading

Final grades in the course are based on the following weighting system:

Participation 10%

Mid-term exam 30%

Case presentation 30%

Final exam 30%

100%

Required readings:

- Alden, Chris and Aran, Amon (2012). Foreign Policy Analysis: New Approaches. New

York: Routledge.

- Cox, Michael and Stokes, Doug eds. (2008). US Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford

University Press.

- Kaufman, Joyce (2006). A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Rowman

& Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

- Kegley, Charles and Raymond, Gregory (2007). After Iraq: The Imperiled American

Imperium. New York: Oxford University Press.

- McCormick, James ed. (2017). The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy:

Insights and Evidence. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Inc.

- Parmar, Inderjeet; Miller, Linda and Ledwidge, Mark eds. (2014). Obama and the New

World. New York: Routledge.

- Smith, Steve; Hadfield, Amelia; and Dunne, Tim eds. (2008). Foreign Policy: Theories,

Actors, Cases. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schedule

The class meets 15 times in all:

Week 1: Course overview

No required readings

I. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF FOREIGN POLICY

Week 2: Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy

Required readings

- Gideon, Rose (1998). “Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy,” World

Politics 51, 144-172.

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- Wohlforth, William (2008). “Realism and Foreign Policy,” in Steve Smith, Amelia

Hadfield, and Tim Dunne eds., Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases. New York:

Oxford University Press. Chapter 2.

Recommended readings

- Gilpin, Robert (1986). “The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism” in Robert

Keohane ed., Neorealism and its Critics. New York: Columbia University Press. Chapter

10.

- Haas, Ernst (1953). “The Balance of Power: Prescription, Concept, or Propaganda?”

World Politics, Vol. 5, pp. 144-172.

- Holsti, Ole (1995). “Theories of International Relations and Foreign Policy,” in Charles

Kegley ed., Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neo-

Liberal Challenge. New York: St. Martins Press, pp. 35-66.

- Jervis, Robert (1999). “Realism in the Study of World Politics,” in Peter Katzenstein et

al. eds., Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics. Cambridge: The

MIT Press.

- Levy, Jack (2004). “What Do Great Powers Balance Against and When?” in Paul, Wirtz,

and Fortmann eds. Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century. Stanford:

Stanford University Press. Chapter 1.

- Mearsheimer, John (2003). The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W.W.

Norton & Company.

- Pape, Robert (2005). “Soft Balancing against the United States,” International Security,

Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 7-45.

- Rosati, Jerel and Scott, James (2007). The Politics of United States Foreign Policy. New

York: Thomson/Wadsworth. Chapter 1.

- Rosato, Sebastian and Schuessler, John (2014). “A Realist Foreign Policy for the United

States,” in John Ikenberry, and Peter Trubowitz ed., American Foreign Policy.

Theoretical Essays. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 6.

- Walt, Stephen (1987). Origins of Alliances. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

- Waltz, Kenneth (2014). “Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power,” in John Ikenberry,

and Peter Trubowitz ed., American Foreign Policy. Theoretical Essays. New York:


Week 3: Liberalism and U.S. Foreign Policy

Required readings

- Doyle, Michael (2008). “Liberalism and Foreign Policy,” in Steve Smith, Amelia



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- Smith, Tony (2017). “Liberal Internationalism: Why Woodrow Wilson Still Matters?” in

James McCormick ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and

Evidence. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Inc. Chapter 1.


- Baldwin, David ed. (1993). Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate.

New York: Columbia University Press.

- Doyle, Michael (2005). “Three Pillars of the Liberal Peace,” American Political Science

Review 99, pp. 463-466.

- Ikenberry, John (2011). Liberal Leviathan. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

- Ikenberry, John (2001). After Victory. Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding

of Order After Major Wars. Ney Jersey: Princeton University Press.

- Keohane, Robert and Martin, Lisa (1998). “The Promise of Institutionalist Theory” in

Michael Brown et al. eds. Theories of War and Peace. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 384-

396.

- Keohane, Robert and Nye, Joseph (1977). Power and Interdependence: World Politics in

Transition. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

- Keohane, Robert (2009). “International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?” in Art

and Jervis eds. International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues.

New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 119-126.

- Keohane, Robert (1986). Neoliberalism and Its Critics. New York: Columbia University

Press.

- Keohane, Robert (1984). After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World

Political Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

- Rosato, Sebastian (2005). “Explaining the Democratic Peace,” American Political

Science Review, 99, pp. 467-472.

Week 4: Constructivism and U.S. Foreign Policy

Required readings

- Flockhart, Trine (2012). “Constructivism and Foreign Policy,” in Steve Smith, Amelia



- Doty, Roxane (1993). “Foreign Policy as Social Construction,” International Studies

Quarterly 37(2): 297-320.


- Adler, Emmanuel (1997). “Seizing the Middle Ground: Constructivism in World

Politics,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 319-363.

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- Goldstein, Judith and Keohane, Robert (1993). “Ideas and Foreign Policy: an Analytical

Framework,” in Judith Goldstein and Robert Keohane eds., Ideas and Foreign Policy:

Beliefs, Institutional and Political Change. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapter 1.

- Houghton, David (2007). “Reinvigorating the Study of Foreign Policy Decision Making:

Towards A Constructivist Approach,” Foreign policy analysis 3, issue 1: 24-45.

- Jackson, Richard and McDonald, Matt (2014). “Constructivism, Foreign Policy, and

Counterterrorism,” in Inderjeet Parmar, Linda Miller, and Mark Ledwidge eds., Obama

and the New World. New York: Routledge. Chapter 2.

- Katzenstein, Peter ed. (1996). The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in

World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

- Kowert, Paul (2001). “Toward A Constructivist Theory of Foreign Policy,” in Vendulka

Kubalkova ed., Foreign Policy in A Constructed World. London & New York: M. E.

Sharpe. Chapter 11.

- Kubalkova, Vendulka (2001). “Foreign Policy, International Politics, and

Constructivism,” in Vendulka Kubalkova ed., Foreign Policy in A Constructed World.

London & New York: M. E. Sharpe. Chapter 1.

- Ruggie, John (2005). “What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-Utilitarianism and

the Social Constructivist Challenge,” International Organization 52(04).

- Weldes Jutta (1996). “Constructing National Interests,” European Journal of

International Relations 2, pp. 275-318.

- Wendt, Alexander (1999). Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

- Wendt, Alexander (1998). “Constructing International Politics” in Michael Brown et al.

eds. Theories of War and Peace. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 416-426.

Week 5: Neo-Marxism and U.S. Foreign Policy

Required readings

- Stokes, Doug and Maher, David (2014). “Marxism and US Foreign Policy,” in Inderjeet

Parmar, Linda Miller, and Mark Ledwidge eds., Obama and the New World. New York:

Routledge. Chapter 5.

- Teschke, Benno and Wyn-Jones, Steffan (2017). “Marxism in Foreign Policy,” Oxford

Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


- Cardoso, Fernando (1973). “Associated Dependent Development,” in Alfred Stepan ed.,

Authoritarian Brazil. New Haven: Yale University Press.

- Chomsky, Noam (2005). Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World.

New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Hold and Company.

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- Cox, Robert (1987). Production, Power, and World Order. New York: Columbia

University Press.

- Harvey, David (2005). The New Imperialism. New York: Oxford University Press.

- Neack, Laura (2003). The New Foreign Policy: U.S. and Comparative Foreign Policy in

the 21st Century. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher, Inc., 2003, pp. 21-25.

- Wallerstein, Immanuel (1984). “Patterns and Prospectives of the Capitalist World

Economy,” Contemporary Marxism, No. 9, pp. 59-70.

II. INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES

Week 6: Executive-Legislative Relations

Required readings

- Alden, Chris and Aran, Amon (2012). Foreign Policy Analysis: New Approaches. New

York: Routledge. Chapters 2-4.

- Jacobs, Lawrence and Page, Benjamin (2005). “Who Influences US Foreign Policy?”

American Political Science Review, 99 (01), pp. 107-123.

- Lindsay, James (2017). “The Shifting Pendulum of Power: Executive-Legislative

Relations on American Foreign Policy,” in James McCormick ed., The Domestic Sources

of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence. New York: Rowman & Littlefield,

Publishers, Inc. Chapter 12.


- Allison, Graham (1971). Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New

York: Harper Collins Publishers.

- Crabb, Cecil and Holt, Pat (1992). Invitation to Struggle: Congress, the President and

Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

- George, Alexander and George, Juliette (1998). Presidential Personality & Performance.

Boulder: Westview Press

- George, Alexander (1990). Presidential Decision-Making in Foreign Policy. Boulder:

Westview Press.

- Gross Stein, Janice (2008). “Foreign Policy Decision-making: Rational Psychological and

Neurological Models,” in Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield, Tim Dunne eds., Foreign

Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 7.

- Howell, William and Pevehouse, Jon (2007). “When Congress Stops Wars: Partisan

Politics and Presidential Power.” Foreign Affairs, September/October.

- Howell, William (2011). “Presidential Powers in War.” Annual Review of Political

Science, 14: 89-105.

- Hurst, Steven (2014). “Parties, Polarization, and US Foreign Policy,” in Inderjeet Parmar,

Linda Miller, and Mark Ledwidge eds., Obama and the New World. New York:


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- Jervis, Robert (2017). “Why Intelligence and Policymakers Crash,” in James McCormick

ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence. New

York: Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Inc. Chapter 15.

- Mastanduno, Michael (2014). “The United States Political System and International

Leadership: A Decidedly Inferior Form of Government?” in John Ikenberry and Peter

Trubowitz ed., American Foreign Policy. Theoretical Essays. New York: Oxford

University Press. Chapter 11.

- Mastanduno, Michael (2008). “Economic Statecraft,” in Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield,

Tim Dunne, eds., Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases. New York: Oxford University

Press. Chapter 12.

- McCormick, James (1992). American Foreign Policy and Process. ITASCA: Peacock

Publisher.

- Nelson, Michael (2017). “Person and Office: Presidents, the Presidency, and Foreign

Policy,” in James McCormick ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy:

Insights and Evidence. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Inc. Chapter 9.

- Ornstein, Norman and Mann, Thomas (2006). “When Congress Checks Out.” Foreign

Affairs, November/December.

- Rosati, Jerel and Scott, James (2010). The Politics of United States Foreign Policy. New

York: Thomson/Wadsworth. Chapter 6.

- Small, Melvin (1994). Democracy and Diplomacy: The Impact of Domestic Politics and

U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789-1994. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

- Wildavsky, Aaron (1966). “The Two Presidencies Thesis,” Transaction 4: 7-14.

Week 7: Interest groups, public opinion, and the media

Required readings

- Entman, Robert (2017). “How Media Limit Accountability in Foreign Policy Making,” in



- Mearsheimer, John and Walt, Stephen (2017). “The Israel Lobby,” in James McCormick



- Smeltz, Dina et al. (2017). “Foreign Policy Beliefs among Leaders and the Public,” in




- Abelson, Donald (2014). “Changing Minds, Changing Course: Obama, Think-Tanks, and

American Foreign Policy,” in Inderjeet Parmar, Linda Miller, and Mark Ledwidge eds.,

Obama and the New World. New York: Routledge. Chapter 5.

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- Bacevich, Andrew (2005). The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced

by War. New York: Oxford University Press.

- Baum, Matthew (2004). “Going Private: Public Opinion, Presidential Rhetoric, and the

Domestic Politics of Audience Costs in US Foreign Policy Crises.” Journal of Conflict

Resolution, 48(5), pp. 603-631.

- Baum, Matt (2002). “Sex, Lies, and War: How Soft News Brings Foreign Policy to the

Inattentive Public,” American Political Science Review 96 (1): 91-109

- Carlsnaes, Walter (2008). “Actors, Structures and Foreign Policy Analysis,” in Steve

Smith, Amelia Hadfield, and Tim Dunne, eds., Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases.

New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 6.

- Gelpi, Chris (2010). “Performing on Cue? The Formation of Public Opinion Toward

War,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 54(1): pp. 86-116.

- Holsti, Ole (1992). “Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Challenges to the Almond-

Lippmann Consensus.” International Studies Quarterly Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 439-466.

- Kieh, George (2014). “The Obama Administration’s Policy Toward Africa,” in Inderjeet



- Mearsheimer, John and Walt, Stephen (2007). The Israel Lobby. New York: Farrar,

Straus and Giroux.

- Neack, Laura (2003). The New Foreign Policy: U.S. and Comparative Foreign Policy in

the 21st Century. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher, Inc. Pp. 113-119.

- Sorbel, Richard (2001). The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy since

Vietnam: Constraining the Colossus. New York: Oxford University Press.

- Van Apeldoorn, Bastiaan and de Graaff, Naná (2014). “Corporate Elite Networks and US

Foreign Policy,” in Inderjeet Parmar, Linda Miller, and Mark Ledwidge eds., Obama and

the New World. New York: Routledge. Chapter 12.

- Yankelovich, Daniel and Destler, I. M. eds. (1994). Beyond the Beltway: Engaging the

Public in U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Week 8: MID-TERM EXAM

III. AMERICA’S GRAND STRATEGIES

Week 9: The Cold War era

Required readings


& Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Chapter 4.

- Saull, Richard (2008). “American Foreign Policy During the Cold War,” in Michael Cox

and Doug Stokes eds., US Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter

6.

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- Allison, Graham (2014). “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” in John

Ikenberry and Peter Trubowitz ed., American Foreign Policy. Theoretical Essays. New

York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 19.

- Bagby, Wesley (1999). America’s International Relations since World War I. New York:

Oxford University Press.

- Gaddis, John (2006). Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Group.

- Hogan, Michael and Paterson, Thomas eds. (2004). Explaining the History of American

Foreign Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press.

- Hook, Steven and Spanier, John (2004). American Foreign Policy since World War II.

Washington D.C.: CQ Press.

- Keylor, William (1992). The Twentieth Century World: An International History. New

York: Oxford University Press.

- Layne, Christopher (2006). The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940

to the Present. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

- Schulzinger, Robert (1998). U.S. Diplomacy since 1900. New York: Oxford University

Press.

- Young, John and Kent, John (2004). International Relations since 1945: A Global

History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Week 10: The post-Cold War Era

Required readings

- Dumbrell John (2008). “America in the 1990s: Searching for Purpose,” in Michael Cox

and Doug Stokes eds., US Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter

7.


& Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Chapter 5.


- Betts, Richard (2005). Conflict after the Cold War. New York: Pearson/Longman.

- Brezezinski, Zibigniew (2007). Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of

American Superpower. New York: Basic Books.

- Deudney, Daniel and Ikenberry, John (1992). “Who Won the Cold War?” Foreign

Policy, No. 87, pp. 123-138.

- Lowenthal, Abraham (1990). Partners in Conflict: The United States and Latin America

in the 1990’s. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

- Loveman, Brian ed. (2004). Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the

Post-Cold War Era. New York: SR Books.

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- Ornstein, Norman (1992). “Foreign Policy and the 1992 Election,” Foreign Affairs, Vol.

71, No. 3, pp. 1-16.

- Snow, Donald and Brown, Eugene (1994). Puzzle Palaces and Foggy Bottom, U.S.

Foreign and Defense Policy-Making in the 1990s. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

- Tucker, Robert and Hendrickson, David (1992). The Imperial Temptation: The New

World Order and America’s Purpose. New York: Council on Foreign Relations.

Week 11: The Bush administration

Required readings


& Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Pp. 139-153.


Imperium. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 5.


- Bolton, Kent (2008). U.S. National Security and Foreign Policymaking after 9/11:

Present at the Re-Creation. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

- Bolton, Kent (2005). U.S. Foreign Policy and International Politics: George W. Bush,

9/11 and the Global-Terrorist Hydra. Upper Saddle River: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

- Daalder, Ivo and Lindsay, James (2003). America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in

Foreign Policy. Washington: Brookings Institution Press.

- DeFronzo, James (2010). The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences. Boulder, Colorado:

Westview Press.

- Diamond, Larry (2005). Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled

Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company.

- Krickus, Richard (2011). The Afghan Question and the Reset in U.S.-Russia Relations.

Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.

- Leffler, Melvyn (2011). “9/11 in Retrospect,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 5, pp. 33-44.

- Peters, Gretchen (2010). Seeds of Terror: How Drugs, Thugs and Crime Are Reshaping

the Afghan War. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press.

- Pfiffner, James (2017). “President Bush and the Invasion of Iraq,” in James McCormick



- Ricks, Thomas (2007). Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York:

Penguin Books.

- Snow, Donald (2009). What After Iraq? New York: Pearson Education, Inc.

- Zegart, Amy (2005). “September 11 and the Adaptation Failure of the U.S. Intelligence

Agencies,” International Security 29: 78-111.

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Week 12: The Obama administration

Required readings

- Drezner, Daniel (2011). “Does Obama Have a Grand Strategy: Why We Need Doctrines

in Uncertain Times,” Foreign Affairs, 90, 57.


& Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Pp. 153-163.

- Lynch, Timothy (2014). “Obama, Liberalism, and US Foreign Policy,” in Inderjeet




- Brzezinski, Zibigniew (2009). “Foreign Policy Challenges for Obama,” International

Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 53-60.

- Cottrell, Patrick (2011). “Hope or Hype? Legitimacy and US Leadership in a Global

Age,” Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 337-358.

- Hook, Steven and Scott, James (2012). “Seeking Renewal: American Foreign Policy in

the Obama Era,” in Steven Hook and James Scott eds., U.S. Foreign Policy Today:

American Renewal? Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. Chapter 1.

- Ledwidge, Mark (2014). “Cosmopolitanism, Identity Politics, and the Decline of Euro-

centrism,” in Inderjeet Parmar, Linda Miller, and Mark Ledwidge eds., Obama and the

New World. New York: Routledge. Chapter 6.

- Lindsay, James (2011). “George Bush, Barack Obama and the Future of US Global

Leadership,” International Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 765-780.

- Lowenthal, Abraham, Piccone, Theodore; and Whitehead, Laurence eds. (2009). The

Obama Administration and the Americas. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution.

- McCriskin, Trevor (2011). “Ten Years On: Obama’s War on Terrorism in Rhetoric and

Practice,” International Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 781-802.

- Quinn, Adam (2011). “The Art of Declining Politely: Obama’s Prudent Presidency and

the Waning of American Power,” International Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 803-824.

IV. FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES

Week 13: China, Terrorism, and Nuclear Proliferation

Required readings


Imperium. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 60-74.

- Layne, Christopher (2012). “This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax

Americana,” International Studies Quarterly, pp. 1-11.

- Mearsheimer, John (2010). “Imperial by Design,” The National Interest, pp. 16-34

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- Bacevich, Andrew (2009). The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.

New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.

- Bacevich, Andrew (2002). American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S.

Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

- Brzezinski, Zbigniew and Scowcroft, Brent (2008). America and the World:

Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy Moderated by David Ignatius.

New York: Basic Books.

- Brooks, Stephen and Wohlforth, William (2008). World Out of Balance: International

Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

- Brown, Michael et al. eds. (2008). Primacy and Its Discontents: American Power and

International Stability. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

- Fordham, Benjamin and Kleinberg, Katja (2011). “International Trade and US Relations

with China,” Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2011, pp. 217-236.

- Friedburg, Aaron (2012). “Bucking Beijing: An Alternative U.S. China Policy,” Foreign

Affairs, September/ October 2012.

- Haas, Richard (2013). “The Irony of American Strategy: Putting the Middle East in

Proper Perspective,” Foreign Affairs.

- Ikenberry, John et al. (2009). The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the

Twenty-first Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

- Jordan, Jenna et. al (2016). "The Strategic Illogic of Counterterrorism Policy." The

Washington Quarterly, pp. 181-192.

- Kegley, Charles ed. (2003). The New Global Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes,

Controls. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

- Kupchan, Charles (2002). The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the

Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

- Layne, Cristopher (2009). “America’s Middle East Grand Strategy after Iraq: the Moment

for Offshore Balancing has Arrived,” Review of International Studies, 35(01), 5-25.

- Patel, Ketan and Aldrich Richard (2014). “President’s Agenda: The Decisions that will

Shape US-China Relations,” in Inderjeet Parmar, Linda Miller, and Mark Ledwidge eds.,

Obama and the New World. New York: Routledge. Chapter 21.

- Posen, Barry (2014). Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy. Ithaca:

Cornell University Press.

- Zakaria, Farid (2008). The Post-American World. New York: W. W. Norton.

Week 14: Case presentations

Week 15: FINAL EXAM

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