American Foreign Policy

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to help students build a theoretical understanding of American foreign policy. It begins with a discussion of America’s grand strategy informed by the major theoretical traditions in the international relations field. Then it examines the institutional structures of and participants in the foreign policy process. Finally, these theoretical and institutional approaches are used to analyze a variety of important historical and contemporary issues in economic and security policy. Prerequisite: 2120. This a starred (*) level course and may be taken for graduate credit by students enrolled in a graduate program. A graduate student enrolled in a starred course numbered below 500 may be required to complete extra work.