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Foreign Policy of the US
The objectives of this course are to: 1. The course aims to analyses the crucial determinants which formulate and influence the external relations of the US. 2. It tries to acquaint and familiarize the nature and scope of US Foreign Policy, in its evolutionary trajectory. 3. It intends to introduce students to the changing contours of a dynamic externalpolicy 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 the undercurrents, which underpin the American policy in the global realm, highlighting the forces, institutions and actors.
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
Books Recommended: 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 264 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.
