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Interstate Relations : Foreign Policy
International Politics of South Asia
International Affairs U4835
Focuses on the study of South Asia as a regional system; relations of the states of South Asia with one another and their interaction with the extra-region states and other actors in the international system. The foundations and goals of their foreign and security policies and their efforts to achieve the stated objectives are discussed. The nature and roots of conflict and prospects of cooperation, the nuclear issue, Afghanistan, the internal dynamics, and prospects of peace and stability are analyzed, especially the policies of India and Pakistan on these issues. The interaction of the states of South Asia with the U.S., the former Soviet Union/Russia, and China are also covered to examine its impact on the region.
The U.S. Role in World Affairs
International Affairs U6347
The International Fellows Seminar focuses on America's role in the world in the post-Cold War era. It concentrates on three themes: (1) historical: traces American foreign policy from the beginning of the republic through Theodore Roosevelt's imperial break-out and Wilson's internationalism to the Cold War period and America's emergence as a superpower. It then assesses the post-Cold War challenges and the responses of the U.S. and others to those challenges; (2) functional: examines such crosscutting global issues as the economic dimension, arms control, human rights, intervention in conflicts, environment, population, terrorism, and migration and refugees. It also looks at the increase in the influence of non-governmental factors; (3) regional: assesses the U.S. role in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Seminar concludes with an examination of the U.S. role in the first decades of the 21st century.
U.S. Foreign and Economic Trade Policy
International Affairs U6628
An introduction to a broad range of international trade issues: alternative economic and political perspectives on international trade; instruments of U.S. foreign economic and trade policy; bilateral approaches to increasing access to foreign markets; sectoral, structural, and macroeconomic approaches to Japan; and major recent multilateral and regional trade negotiations such as NAFTA.
American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
International Affairs U6793
Explores the challenges confronting American foreign policy today. It brings social science theory to bear on practical policy concerns, analyzing the structure of the situations national officials face, the pressures they encounter, and the relative merits of the options they consider. After tracing the differences between the Cold War and post-Cold War environments, the course covers topics such as military and humanitarian intervention, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, economic sanctions, and democratization, using current or recent cases to bring out U.S. policymakers' concerns in each area.
American Exceptionalism and the Prospects for International Law and Organization
International Affairs U6872
U.S. foreign policy has long been characterized by a sense of exceptionalism and an ambivalence toward international law and organization. In recent years, these traits have proven particularly disconcerting to those intent on building global regimes and on containing the unilateralist tendencies of the United States, as the sole remaining superpower. Seeks to (1) develop an understanding of the forces that have created these contradictions and (2) explore some of the implications for the future architecture of global regimes. After exploring the dimensions of exceptionalism and examples of how it has been practiced by other states from time to time, weighs three alternative sets of explanations for this tendency in U.S. foreign policy. Considers (1) American history, values, and political culture, (2) the special features of the American constitutional and political system, and (3) strategic factors related to its unsurpassed and largely unchallenged power position within the nation state system. Also considers some of the policy choices facing the United States and other actors-governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental-in seeking to develop international law and organization in the face of these challenges.
Fault Line Issues in U.S.-Emerging Market Relations
International Affairs U8108
This course will explore the evolution of U.S. policy toward the world's emerging markets. It will do so by using case studies that illustrate the tensions between U.S. national interests in key emerging markets and the interests of emerging markets governments or those of competing developed nations also active in emerging markets. The course will place special emphasis on considering both the practical and analytical means by which such international conflicts are resolved. It will also consider the broader implications of individual cases for the future developments between the U.S. and the world's emerging markets.
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf
International Affairs U8136
Focuses on the process by which U.S. foreign policy is formulated and executed, using the Persian Gulf region as case material. Readings and lectures examine the relationship between U.S. government agencies (White House, State, Defense, CIA, Congress, etc.) and instrumentalities (declaratory policy, diplomacy, military presence, arms transfers, covert action, etc.) in the pursuit of national goals. Special attention is devoted to the analysis of U.S. regional policy and international relations from the Iranian revolution through the two gulf wars.
Southeast Asia in the International System
International Affairs U8609
Examines the international politics of Southeast Asia in the postwar period from a systems perspective. Provides an understanding of Southeast Asia's place within the Cold War international system in order to determine why Southeast Asian states adopted different policies within the Cold War system and to analyze the extent to which Southeast Asian states have been able to influence the post-Cold War Southeast Asian system.
U.S. Foreign Relations, 1890-1970
History W4698
Provides an empirical grasp of U.S. foreign relations to problematize the historiographical views of the various periods and questions that have come up to make that particular history. Much emphasis on critique, and on determining limits of these contentious principles.
Colloquium on European Foreign Policies
Political Science G8803
Selected problems in the international relations of West European countries since World War II, including security and arms control, international integration, and international economic relations.
New Perspectives on the Cold War
Political Science G8810
Recently released archives and memoirs provide the basis for a reevaluation of the origins, course, and end of the Cold War. Prevailing explanations of Soviet and American foreign policy and international interaction in light of new materials.
United States Foreign Policy
Political Science G8865
Survey of U.S. policy, concentrating on the Cold War and after: relations with Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East; military and economic policy; political intervention (human rights policy and covert action); and environmental diplomacy.
International Politics of the Middle East
Political Science W4846
Analyzes various stages in the development of international relations in the Middle East from World War I to the present, focusing on the interaction of four key factors in each stage: (1) Great Power policies; (2) Arab-Israeli conflict; (3) regional rivalries and Pan-Arabism; (4) domestic politics of the concerned states. The course concludes with a review of the present configuration of the factors and forces in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War.
Korean Foreign Relations
Political Science W4869
An examination of the changing foreign relations of the two Korean states with major international actors, and an analysis of the foreign policies of the two states on issues of war and peace, political economy, human rights, science and technology, international law, international organizations, and world order with an emphasis on recent post-Cold War developments.
Chinese Foreign Policy
Political Science W4871
The international politics of China and its foreign relations, its intentions, capabilities, and strategies in world affairs, and the major instruments of its foreign policy, with primary emphasis on the People's Republic.
Foreign Policies of the Post-Soviet States
Political Science W4882
Focuses on the emerging foreign policies of Russia, Ukraine, the Central Asian States, and several other former Soviet republics. Deals with the sources of these policies, including the impact of the Soviet legacy. Examines the dynamic of relations among these states and with the outside world, and weighs their likely impact on an evolving international system.