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 FULBRIGHT
AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE ON US FOREIGN POLICY
Walker Institute
University of South Carolina
Gambrell Hall, Room 440
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
United States of America
Phone: 803.777.8180 Fax: 803.777.9308
WELCOME
Welcome to the 2002 Walker Institute's Fulbright American Studies
Institute for U.S. Foreign Policy. The purpose of the institute
is to share our understanding about U.S. foreign policy and
American society with distinguished faculty members from
academic institutions around the world. The summer program for
18 visiting fellows from 18 different countries consists of two
parts: A four-week academic seminar here at the University of
South Carolina from June 28 - July 27; and a two-week study tour
designed to reinforce the academic content of the seminar. The
study tour consists of one week in Washington D.C. (July 27 -
August 3) and one week in Los Angeles (Aug 3 - August 10). The
Fulbright Institute is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of
State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Jerel Rosati
Program Investigator, Project Director, and Academic
Director
Paula L'Ecuyer, Administrative Director
Janine Davidson, Assistant Director
Byongok Han, Project Assistant
Purpose and Objectives
The foreign policy of the United States has experienced important continuities and changes over time. By the twentieth century, the United States increasingly became a global power. Following World War II and with the rise of the cold war, United States foreign policy during the fifties and sixties revolved around the containment of Soviet and communist expansion throughout the world. The cold war years were also a time when the power of the presidency was preeminent in the making of U.S. foreign policy.
Yet over the last thirty years numerous developments have occurred throughout the world and within American society that have affected the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Events such as the Vietnam War and Watergate challenged America’s postwar containment policy and the power of the presidency.
The end of the cold war and increasing global security threats have opened up new opportunities and constraints for both U.S. foreign policy and presidential power.
The purpose of the institute is to provide participants with a strong understanding of the foundations and formulation of U.S. foreign policy. More specifically, participants will examine, discuss, debate, and gain practical insights into the evolution and contemporary practice of U.S. foreign policy.
Six central themes or questions are addressed throughout the institute:
1) What have been the dominant patterns in the history of U.S. foreign policy?
2) To what extent is the President able to govern and run U.S. foreign policy?
3) What have been the dominant patterns of continuity and change in the making of U.S. foreign policy over time, including the role of the government and domestic institutions? In other words, how is U.S. foreign policy really made?
4) How have the tensions between the demands of national security and democracy evolved?
5) What are the implications of the end of the cold war and the September 11th bombing for the future of U.S. foreign policy into the twenty-first century?
6) What are the major interpretations or perspectives, as well as different sources of information and scholarship, that exist within the United States?
The institute will expose the fellows to different bodies of information, knowledge, and thought about the foundation and formulation of U.S. foreign policy. It should broaden and deepen their substantive and historical knowledge of U.S. foreign policy. Given its breadth, the institute should not only improve the fellows’ abilities to understand U.S. foreign policy, but it should also improve their general learning potential and level of professional competence.
Schedule Overview
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