MVZ457 American Foreign Policy

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2011
Rozsah
2/0/0. 8 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Prof. Richard B. Finnegan (přednášející)
Garance
PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Rozvrh
St 10:00–11:40 U43
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American foreign policy in a world so rapidly changing is a challenging and exciting topic. We will both look forward as well as backward in time. We will examine the historical context, the decision-making processes, policy process, negotiations, core values and interests and the outcomes of American foreign policy in the international arena. We will also look beyond the current array of issues to those merging from the changing international system. The study of foreign policy can be approached in a variety of ways. Each of these perspectives offers a valuable insight into the extensive dimensions of foreign policy. They are in turn: A. A focus on policy making lays the stress on the way decisions are made and the people who make them i.e. theories of decision making. B. A focus on the politics of American foreign policy. The choices that are made in foreign policy resulting from political competition. C. A regional/topical focus on the issues of a particular place or a particular problem such as Latin America, China security and trade issues. D. A focus on making interpretations of foreign policy examines the ideological perspectives of critics and the decision makers. A comprehensive consideration of all these perspectives would not be possible in one semester but the course will consider all four at different points in the course. The texts are chosen to illuminate these perspectives. The goals of the course are to 1 to offer coherent explanations based on the history of American foreign policy and American values; 2. articulate different theories; 3. apply different theories of decision making to the cases covered in the class; 4. to comprehend the post cold war, post 9/11 and post Iraq international environment.
Osnova
  • The course will be divided into twelve sections : the lectures and readings are listed for each section. 1. Introduction to the course: History, Values, and Interests: The establishment of the core values of the United States, individual freedom, democracy and capitalism. What is “Wilsonianism” and does it define U.S. policy, what is realism and does it define U.S. policy? Suggested: Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. 2006: for values see Walter Russell Mead and Richard C. Leone, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, 2002. 2. The Development of American Power from World War II to Vietnam; The origins of the Cold War, the Containment Doctrine Required: X. “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs,1947 in Foreign Affairs on the internet: M. Roskin, “From Pearl Harbor to Vietnam: “Generational Paradigms and Foreign Policy” in Political Science Quarterly, 1974 in PSQ on the internet. And J.L. Gaddis, “Two Cold War Empires: Imposition vs. Multilateralism” from We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, 1997 in T. G. Paterson, D. Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005 or on the internet at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nowknow.htm 3. The Korean War and the Vietnam War: Cold War Confrontation The Korean War Required: Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Civil War and the Roots of US Intervention” from Korea, A Place in the Sun, 1997. in T. G. Paterson, D. Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005 The Vietnam War Required: G. M. Goldstein, “Never Deploy Military Means in Pursuit of Indeterminate Ends,” from Lessons in Disaster, 2008; Robert K. Brigham, An Unwinnable War” from his article “Three Alternative US Strategies in Vietnam” in R.S. McNamara, et al, eds, Argument Without End, 1999 in T. G. Paterson, D. Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005 Suggested: G. M. Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster, 2008; George Herring, America’s Longest War: Vietnam, 2001. F. Logevall, “Lyndon Johnson and His Bureaucracy Choose War ” in T. G. Paterson, D. Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005 4. Nuclear Weapons, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Detente Required: T. G. Paterson, Spinning Out of Control: Kennedy’s War Against Cuba and the Missile Crisis” from T. G. Paterson, D. Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005 Suggested: Graham Allison, P. Zelikow, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1999. Detente and the end of the Cold War Required: Joan Hoff, “Nixon’s Innovative Grand Design” and Walter Isaacson, “Kissinger’s Realism Without Morality” in T. G. Paterson, D Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005; J.S. Nye Jr., “The Limits of American Power” from The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go it Alone, 2002 in T. G. Paterson, D. Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005 Suggested: J.L. Gaddis, The Cold War : A New History, Penguin, 2006 5. The Post Cold War World: Searching for a Template, Four Possibilities Required: Brzezinski, Second Chance. 1-134; Suggested: Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down, 2000 6. The Post 9/11 World: A New Enemy? Required: B. Lewis, “The Revolt of Islam,” in T. G. Paterson, D. Merrill, eds, Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2005: Michael Scott Doran, "Somebody Else's Civil War," Foreign Affairs, 2002 at Foreign Affairs on the internet. Suggested: G. Allison, "How to Stop Nuclear Terror," Foreign Affairs. 2004; L. Garrett, "The Nightmare of Bio-terrorism," Foreign Affairs. 2001: T.P.M. Barnett, The Pentagon's New Map, Putnam, 2005. 7. The Global Economy Required: Crisis Guide: The Global Economy, Council on Foreign Relations Video at http://www.cfr.org/world/crisis-guide-global-economy/p19710?gclid=CMG-kMO2iqcCFZMK3wodG2cZdw Suggested: Thomas Freidman, “The Great Sorting Out” and “American and Free Trade” from The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century, 2005, Chapters 4 and 5. 8. Making Decisions: Rational Actor; Organizational Process; Bureaucratic Politics; Groupthink; Crisis Decision Making: Organization Theory, Motivational Psychology, Prospect Theory Required: Welch, Painful Choices, 1-71 A Test Case; Vietnam, Required: Welch, Chapter Four 9. Conclusions from the Theory: Integrating the Theories and Explaining Decisions Required: On Groupthink http://www.afirstlook.com/docs/groupthink.pdf On Crisis Decision Making; http://www.jstor.org/stable/174123?seq=3 Suggested: I.L. Janis, Groupthink. 1982: V. Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis, 2007: G. Allison, Essence of Decision. 1972 and/or G. Allison, P, Zelikow, Essence of Decision. 2nd ed.,1999: S. Yetiv, Explaining Foreign Policy. 2004. 10. The Policies and Ideology of U.S. Leadership and the Alternatives: Unilateralism, Hegemony and Pre-emption: The Bush Doctrine and Neo-conservatism, Occupation, Insurgency, Civil War?: Required: Brzezinski, Second Chance, 135-218, Film: "No End in Sight" Suggested: The 9/11 Report: Chapter 12 "What to Do: A Global Strategy": J.L. Gaddis, Surprise. Security and the American Experience. 2004: R. Kagan, Of Paradise and Power. America Europe and the New World Order, 2003: Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. Penguin, 2005: Phillip Gordon, "The End of the Bush Revolution" Foreign Affairs. 2006: Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Penguin, 2006: James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA, and the Bush Administration. Free Press, 2006: Michael Gordon, Bernard Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. Pantheon, 2006. 11. Afghanistan (and Pakistan): What Goals? What Means? Required: Amir Tahiri, “Afghanistan”: American Foreign Policy Interests”, 2009, on Ebsco Rufus Phillips, “Déjà vu All Over Again: Are we Repeating Vietnam?” World Affairs, September 2010 on Ebsco 12. Foreign Policy, Society and the Future of American Power Required: Joseph Nye Jr. "Transformational Leadership and U.S. Grand Strategy" Foreign Affairs. 2006 at Foreign Affairs on the internet: Suggested: Robert Art, America's Grand Strategy, Cornell, 2003: Lane, "From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing" in International Security, 1997: Baruma and Margolit, Occidentalism, The West in the Eyes of its Enemies, 2004: J. Nye, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone, Oxford 2002: Madeline Albright, The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America . God and World Affairs, 2006
Metody hodnocení
Grades will be based upon three papers; the first will be a reflection on some questions that will be based upon the first six lectures and readings; the second will be eight to ten pages research paper and will be on a topic of your choice that examines a contemporary issue in American foreign policy; the third will be a final in which you respond to questions based upon the final six lectures and readings. The first exam will be due April 4; the second, the paper, will be due May 9 and the third will be due May 23rd. The midterm and final will contain a number of questions from which you choose two and write two and one half pages per question, the final will be the same format. The exams are expected to be integrative analyses of the material. The term paper should be able to answer the question: Describe the issue and its main dimensions, consider some policy options and their justifications and make a recommendation that is plausible and possible within the parameters of the political and international restraints on the US. The topics will be chosen by you. I suggest an examination of the articles in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy over the past few years as that will be as good a list of issues as you will find anywhere.
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