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Foreign Policy of the US
Learning Objectives:Notwithstanding the diffusion of power since the end of the Cold War, the United States and its role in shaping the 21st century global order, continues to assume significance.
- The course aims to analyses the crucial determinants which formulate and influence the external relations of the US.
- It tries to acquaint and familiarize the nature and scope of US Foreign Policy, in its evolutionary trajectory.
- It intends to introduce students to the changing contours of a dynamic external-policy framework, vis-à-vis different regions of the globe, not to mention its policy-response to mutating thematic challenges manifesting themselves on the horizon and delineate theundercurrents, which underpin the American policy in the global realm, highlighting the forces, institutions and actors.
Learning Outcomes: On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of key elements of political analysis of US power and hegemony
- demonstrate a critical understanding of historical development of the US within the state system and related questions of power and governance
- get a clear and comprehensive understanding of the role played by the United States in world affairs.
Determinants and Process: Constitutional and Institutional Actors; Geographical, Economical and Technological Factors; Domestic Context (Political Parties, Lobbies, Mass Media)
Evolution of the US Foreign Policy: Pre War, Post War and Post Cold War
US and International Institutions
United Nations, NATO, OAS, G7, G20, IMF/World Bank
US Engagement with Major and Regional Powers
China, Russia, India, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea
US Responses to Global Challenges
International Terrorism, NPT and Environmental Issues
Essential Readings:
- Kalu, K and and Kieh, G. (2013) Eds. United States-Africa Security Relations: Terrorism, Regional Security and National Interests. London: Routledge.
- Brzezinski, Z. (2013) Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. New York: Perseus Books Group
- Cha, V.D. (2016) Power-Play: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Leffler, M. P. (2017) Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: US Foreign Policy and National Security (1990-2015). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Ikenberry, J. (2012) Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Reference Books:
- Bucklin, S. (2001) Realism and the American Foreign Policy: Wilsonians and the Kennan-Morgenthau Thesis. Westport: Praeger
- Cameron, F. (2002) US Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Global Hegemon or Reluctant Sherif ?. New York: Routledge
- Chittick, W. (2006) American Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis: Washington D.C.: CQ Press
- Cameron, F. (2007) US Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Global Hegemon or Reluctant Sherif ?. Washington DC: CQ Press
- Mead, W. R. (2001) Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World. New York: Knopf
- McEvoy-Levy, S. (2001) American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy: Public Diplomacy at the end of the Cold War. New York: Palgrave
- Pillar, P. (2001) Terrorism and US Foreign Policy. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press
- Steil, B. and Litan, R. (2006) Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy, New Haven: Yale University Press
- Bacevich, A. (2018) Ideas and American Foreign Policy: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Haas, R. (2017) A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. New York: Penguin Books.
- Tow,W. and Stuart,D. ( 2017) The New US Strategy Towards Asia : Adapting to the American Pivot. London: Routledge
- Jentleson, B. (2013) American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
- Holsti, O. (2006) Making American Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.
