Type of Credit: Elective
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This 3-credit, English-taught seminar course is aimed at helping you, M.A. and Ph.D. students, explore the foreign policy of the United States of America mainly from practical or policy-oriented perspectives. At the beginning of the semester, I will try to introduce some major theoretical approaches and the policy-making picture that help explain and analyze U.S. foreign policy, followed by outlining the development of U.S. foreign policy in practice since 2009.
In addition to history of American foreign relations, which is very fundamental in this course, I hope students will be able to identify, explain, and basically analyze the major bases for, and goals of, America’s key foreign policy programs. Meanwhile, the general trends and various views about U.S. foreign policy, as well as how the U.S., in a broad term, views the world, will be brought up for deliberation. Active class participation will help discussions and brainstorming necessary for the students’ better understanding of the subject.
The last one-third of this semester will concentrate both on in-class debates and on application of the artificial intelligence (AI) for writing policy memorandums and professional reviews of these memorandums.
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See the attached, please.
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Please see the attached.
Please see the attached.
G. John Ikenberry, ed., American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, 6th Edn. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wadsworth/Cengage Learn, 2011).
Those who have little knowledge of U.S. foreign policy, the following four books may be of help. Glenn P. Hastedt, American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020 or newer); Steven W. Hook and John W. Spanier, American Foreign Policy since World War II (Washington, DC: CQ Press, various editions); James McCormick, ed., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 6th Edition or newer); and Robert J. Leiber, Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World (New Haven: Yale University, 2022).