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每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

教學週次Course Week	彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week	彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 17 週 Week 17	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work
	第 18 週 Week 18	自主總整學習Capstone self-learning

 

第一週：外交政策研究：研究什麼？如何研究？

* Margret Hermann, “The Study of American Foreign Policy,” in Hook and Jones, Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy, pp. 3-18.

Jentleson, American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, pp. 2-26 (chapter 1).

 

第二週：美國與加拿大的世界觀：American Exceptionalism and Something Else

Taesuh Cha, “American Exceptionalism at the Crossroads: Three Responses,” Political Studies Review, 13 (2015), pp. 351-362.

Jeffrey W. Legro, Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 49-83 (chapter 3).

Sean Clark, “Steady March toward Greatness? Tracing the Evolution of Canada’s International Position,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2016), pp. 228-248.

Asa McKercher, “‘Ultimate Destiny’ Delayed: The Liberals, the Organization of American States, and Canadian Foreign Policy, 1963-1968,” Diplomacy & Statecraft, Vol: 25 (2014), pp. 472-491.

Herring, From Colony to Superpower, chapters 1-4.

進階參考資料：

James McCormick, “Diplomatic History,” in Hook and Jones, Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy, pp.19-32.

 

第三週：冷戰的起源：From Russia with Love

Hook and Spanier, AFP, pp. 22-71 (chapters 2&3).

Herring, From Colony to Superpower, chapters 13&14.

進階參考資料：

Norman A. Graebner, “Cold War Origins and the Continuing Debate: A Review of Recent Literature,” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 1969), pp. 123-132.

 

第四週：第三世界與古巴危機：Who is Responsible for What?

Hook and Spanier, AFP, pp. 72-89 (chapter 4).

Jentleson, American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, pp. 130-133.

Christopher Jones, “Bureaucratic Politics,” in Hook and Jones, Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy, pp. 118-131.

進階參考資料：

Philip Zelikow, “Foreign Policy Engineering: From Theory to Practice and Back Again,” International Security, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring 1994), pp. 143-171.

 

第五週：越戰的影響： “Come Home, America.”

Hook and Spanier, AFP, chapter 4.

Lee H. Hamilton, “Relations between the President and Congress in Wartime,” in James A. Thurber, ed., Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations, 4thEd. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), pp. 285-307.

James Thomson, “How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy,” in James McCormick ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), pp. 333-344.

 

第六週：冷戰的暫時緩和：Détente?

Jentleson, American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, pp. 160-177.

Stephen G. Walker, “The Interface between Beliefs and Behavior: Henry Kissinger’s Operational Code and the Vietnam War,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (March 1977), pp. 129-168.

 

第七週：卡特與雷根時期：Crusader and Cowboy

Hook and Spanier, AFP, pp. 111-149 (chapters 5&6).

Bruce Jentleson, American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, pp. 177-196.

進階參考資料：

Andrew Z. Katz, “Public Opinion and the Contradictions of Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, Iss. 4 (December 2000), pp. 662-687.

Stephen M. Walt, “Testing Theories of Alliance Formation: the Case of Southwest Asia.” International Organization, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Spring 1988), pp. 275-316.

 

第八週：冷戰結束：Power, Interests, Ideas, or What?

Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, “Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Reevaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas,” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Winter 2000/01), pp. 5-53.

進階參考資料：

I.M. Destler, “The Foreign Economic Bureaucracy,” in Stephen W. Hook and Christopher M. Jones, eds., Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy (NY: Routledge, 2012), pp. 217-230.

Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, “The International Sources of Soviet Change,” International Security, Vol.16, No 3 (Winter 1991/92), pp. 74-118.

Richard Ned Lebow and Thomas Risse-Kappen, eds., International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).

 

第九週：期中書單報告

 

第十週：冷戰結束後的北美國際關係：US Bound to Lead, but How?

Ralph G. Carter, Essentials of U.S. Foreign Policy Making (NY: Pearson, 2015), ch. 7, pp. 113-135.

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby,” in G. John Ikenberry and Peter Trubowitz, eds., American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays (NY: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 277-294.

Nik Hynek & David Bosold, eds., Canada’s Foreign and Security Policy: Soft and Hard Strategies of a Middle Power (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2010), selected chapters.

 

第十一週：單極霸權：A 500-pound Gorilla in Wonderland

William Wohlforth, “Unipolar Stability,” Harvard International Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 44-48.

Robert Jervis, “Understanding the Bush Doctrine,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 118, Iss. 3 (Fall 2003), pp. 365-388.

Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth, “International Relations Theory and the Case against Unilateralism,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3 (September 2005), pp. 509-524.

進階參考資料：

Robert Pape, “Soft Balancing against the United States,” International Security, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Summer 2005), pp. 7-45.

T.V. Paul, “Soft Balancing in the Age of U.S. Primacy,” International Security, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Summer 2005), pp. 46-71.

Stephen M. Walt, Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (New York: Norton, 2005), Ch. 3.

 

第十二週：【專題演講（TBC）】

 

第十三週：歐巴馬的承繼與改變：A World of Change?

Hook and Spanier, AFP, chapter 12 (pp. 278-299).

Walter Russell Mead, “The Carter Syndrome,” Foreign Policy, No. 177 (January/February 2010), pp. 58-64.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, “From Hope to Audacity,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 89, No. 1 (January/February 2010), pp. 16-30.

 

第十四週：川普與美國外交專題(I)： Spoiler in the Making?

Special Issue, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 96, No. 1 (January/February 2017).

 

第十五週：川普與美國外交專題(II)： Running for Re-election

 

第十六週：加拿大外交與安全政策： Canada as a Middle Power

Sean Maloney, “Towards a New National Security Policy for Canada,” Defense & Security Analysis, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 199-206.

Robert W. Murray and John McCoy, “From Middle Power to Peacebuilder: The Use of the Canadian Forces in Modern Canadian Foreign Policy,” American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2010), pp. 171-188.

Lasha Tchantouridzé, “The Unipolar World: Theory, Images, and Canada’s Foreign Policy Priorities,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2012), pp. 26-37.

 

第十七週：世界變局下的北美地區國際關係：Where Are We Heading?

Hook and Spanier, AFP, chapter 13&14 (pp. 300-346).

M. Angeles Villarreal and Ian F. Fergusson, “The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),” Congressional Research Service Report, May 24, 2017.

“NAFTA, Trump and Canada: A Guide to the Trade File and What It Could Mean for You,” The Globe and Mail, January 24, 2017, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trump-nafta-canada-mexico-trudeau/article33715250/.

 

第十八週：課程總結與未來展望