Session 2 (Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm)

Introduction

Required reading:
Wittkopf, Eugene R., Christopher M. Jones, and Jr. Charles W. Kegley. 2008. "Principle, Power,
and Pragmatism: The Goals of American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective." In American
Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process, 29-74. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
Norrlof, Carla. 2018. “Hegemony and inequality: Trump and the liberal playbook.” International
Affairs, 94:1, 63-88.
Macdonald, Paul K. 2018. “America First? Explaining Continuity and Change in Trump’s Foreign
Policy.” Political Science Quarterly, 133:3, 401-434.

Further reading:
Brands, Hal. “U.S. Grand Strategy in an Age of Nationalism: Fortress America and its
Alternatives.” The Washington Quarterly, 40:1, 73–94.
Brook, Stephen, and William Wohlforth. 2016. America Abroad: The United States´ Global Role in the
21st Century. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press.
Grygiel, Jakub J., and A. Wess Mitchell. 2016. The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies,
and the Crisis of American Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Haas, Richard. 2017. A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. New
York: Penguin Press.
Ikenberry, G. John 2018. “The End of liberal international order?” International Affairs 94:1, 7-23.
Ikenberry, G. John. 2011. Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World
Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Lieber, Robert J. 2012. Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States Is Not Destined
to Decline. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Norrlof, Carla. 2010. America's Global Advantage: US Hegemony and International Cooperation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Skidmore, David. 2011. The unilateralist temptation in American foreign policy, Foreign policy analysis. New
York: Routledge.
Stokes, Doug. 2018. “Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international
order.” International Affairs, 94:1, 133-150.
Thompson, John A. 2015. A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press.
Zakaria, Fareed. 2008. The post-American world. 1. edition. ed. New York ; London: Norton.