HIST 766 Ken Clements
GINT 741 & Jerel Rosati
Spring 2000
AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY U.S. FOREIGN POLICY :
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TO THE NEXT MILLENIUM
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“If life were a play the noises offstage would drown out the lines of the principal actors. That, of course, would make for a rather poor tale; and so the recounting of history is only the order we artificially impose upon life to permit its lessons to be more clearly understood. ...” But, “How much may one select, interpret, and arrange the facts of the living past before truth is jeopardized by inaccuracy?” Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to acquaint you with some of the major issues and interpretations in American diplomatic history. It should broaden and deepen your substantive, historical, and systematic knowledge of U.S. foreign policy, especially during the twentieth century.
REQUIREMENTS
Students are expected to engage in a considerable amount of reading and will be evaluated through class participation, a major research paper, and a final examination.
1. Class Participation (20%). In order to get the most out of class, you must be prepared when you come to class. Students are required to complete the readings prior to class meetings and to come to class ready to discuss them.
The class is organized around the required readings and their topics. We expect every student to come to class prepared and participate. Every student should be able to summarize, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate each assigned reading by addressing the following questions:
1. What is the author's purpose?
2. What is the basic theme(s) or argument(s) of the reading?
3. What are the most important historical events, information, concepts, etc. discussed in the reading?
4. How does this reading relate to the other readings and to the central themes of the course?
5. How powerful or weak is the argument and the evidence? Why?
Students also are encouraged to offer comments or questions which contribute to class discussions on a regular basis.
2. Major Research Paper (40%). GINT majors are expected to write a major historiographical paper about an issue they find of particular interest. History majors are expected to write a major paper explaining an issue they find of particular interest from a major analytic or theoretical approach. The assignment will be broken down into stages, beginning with a research proposal due early in the semester. More details about the paper will be provided in class. Students are expected to contribute the knowledge they learn from their research papers into class discussion. The final paper will be due Monday, April 24.
3. Final Examination (40%). The final will consist of essays and will be cumulative, focusing on the major questions/ideas and general concepts/points addressed in the readings and throughout the class. Your essays should demonstrate your mastery and thoughtful consideration of the material, and should explicitly discuss and integrate the readings. You will receive a study guide in advance of the examination to help you prepare if necessary.
GRADES
Your grade will be based, not on how well you do compared to others in the class, but on the quality of substantive knowledge, quality of analysis, and effective communication demonstrated--in other words, the level of understanding demonstrated. An A represents "excellence"; a B+ represents "very good"; a B represents "good". Grades below B indicate that the level of work in the course is below the level expected of graduate students.
REQUIRED READING
Walter LaFeber, The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1750 (New York: Norton, 1994)
Michael H. Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang, 1996)
Universal Copies packet of required readings, available at 1120 College Streed (next to Sandy's Hot Dogs on the corner of Main and College Street; 254-8931)
You want to peruse some of the recommended journals in an effort to keep up with some of the diplomatic history/foreign policy literature:
Book review journals:
The New Republic
The New York Review of Books
Policy journals:
Foreign Policy
Foreign Affairs
National Interest
Orbis
World Policy Journal
Department of State Bulletin
More academic and scholarly literature (articles and book reviews) on the history and practice of U.S. foreign policy can be found in:
Diplomatic History
International Security
Journal of American History
Pacific Historical Review
Political Science Quarterly
Presidential Studies Quarterly
COURSE TOPICS AND READINGS
The focus is on broad and in-depth coverage of the two basic elements in the practice of U.S. foreign policy throughout American history: national security policy and foreign economic policy. Nevertheless, it should be pointed out that other foreign policy issues of consequence also exist--such as immigration policy, drug policy, and international environmental policy--but they will receive limited attention due to obvious time constraints of a one semester course.
* = required reading (others readings are recommended only)
I. INTRODUCTION, HISTORICAL OVERVIEW, COMPETING INTERPRETATIONS, AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES
WEEK 1. THE STUDY OF DIPLOMATIC HISTORY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
*Jack S. Levy, “Too Important to Leave to the Other: History and Political Science in the Study of International Relations,” International Security 22 (Summer 1997), pp. 22-33
*John Lewis Gaddis, “History, Theory, and Common Ground,” International Security 22 (Summer 1997), pp. 75-85
Paul W. Schroeder, “ History and International Relations Theory: Not Use or Abuse, but Fit or Misfit,” International Security 22 (Summer 1997), pp. 64-74
WEEK 2. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
*Dexter Perkins, “The Broad Picture, 1789-1945,” in The American Approach to Foreign Policy (New York: Atheneum, 1968), pp. 1-28
*Richard W. Van Alstyne, The American Empire: Its Historical Pattern and Evolution (London: Historical Association, General Series Number 43 Pamphlet, 1960), pp. 3-28
*Bradford Perkins, Tragedy of American Diplomacy": Twenty-Five Years Later," in The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, by William Appleman Williams (New York: Norton, 1988), pp. 313-330
*Walter LaFeber, "The "Lion in the Path": The U.S. Emergence as a World Power," Political Science Quarterly (1986), pp. 705-718
*Jerel Rosati, The Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy (Dallas: Harcourt Brace, 1998), pp. 15-42
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "America and Empire," in The Cycles of American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), pp. 118-162
William Appleman Williams, “The Rise of An American World Power Complex,” in The Struggle Against History, edited by Neal Houghton (Washington Square Press, 1968), pp. 1-19
Walter A. McDougall, "Back to Bedrock: The Eight Traditions of American Statecraft," Foreign Affairs (March/April 1997), pp. 134-146
James Kurth, "America's Grand Strategy: A Pattern of History," National Interest (Spring 1996), pp. 3-19
Thomas A. Bailey, "America's Emergence as a World Power: The Myth and the Verity," Pacific Historical Review 30 (February 1961)
Frank Ninkovich, "Interests and Discourse in Diplomatic History," Diplomatic History 13 (Spring 1989)
WEEK 3. THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
*LaFeber, The American Age, pp. 157-231
*Robert Dallek, "National Mood and American Foreign Policy: A Suggestive Essay," American Quarterly 34:4 (Fall 1982), pp. 339-361
*Joseph A. Fry, "From Open Door to World Systems: Economic Interpretations of Late Nineteenth Century American Foreign Relations," Pacific Historical Review 65 (May 1996), pp. 277-303
*William E. Leuchtenburg, "Progressivism and Imperialism: The Progressive Movement and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1916," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 39 (December 1952), pp. 483-504
Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., "Free Trade and Economic Security, 1776-1860," in Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1995), pp. 1-27
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982), pp. 3-37, 229-234
William Appleman Williams, "The Rise of an American World Complex," in Consensus at the Crossroads, edited by Howard Bliss and M. Glen Johnson (New York: Dodd, Mean, 1972), pp. 58-72
II. THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TO THE COLD WAR
WEEK 4. WILSON AND WORLD WAR I
*LaFeber, The American Age, pp. 234-333
*John Coogan, “Wilsonian Diplomacy in War and Peace,” in American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993, edited by Gordon Martel (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 71-89
*Kendrick A. Clements, Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman, chapter 11, "Failure and Hope, 1919-1924", pp. 197-224
*David Steigerwald, “The Reclamation of Woodrow Wilson,” Diplomatic History 23 (Winter 1999), pp. 79-100
*Arthur S. Link, "Woodrow Wilson," in Henry Graff, The Presidents: A Reference History (New York: Scribners, 1996), pp. 365-387
*Jerrold M. Post, "Woodrow Wilson Re-examined: The Mind-Body Controversy Redux and Other Disputations," Political Psychology 4 (1983), pp. 289-306
Dorothy Ross, "Woodrow Wilson and the Case for Psychohistory," Journal of American History 69 (Dec. 1982)
Lloyd E. Ambrosius, "Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for Orderly Progress," in Norman A. Graebner, ed., Traditions and Values: American Diplomacy, 1865-1945 (on reserve)
Frederick S. Calhoun, Uses of Force in Wilsonian Foreign Policy, Chapt. 3
Bert E. Park, "The Aftermath of Wilson's Stroke," The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 64 (1991):525-28
Daniel M. Smith, "National Interest and American Intervention, 1917: An Historiographical Appraisal," Journal of American History 52 (Jan. 1965)
WEEK 5. THE INTERWAR YEARS
*LaFeber, The American Age, pp. 334-412
*William Appleman Williams, “The Legend of Isolationism in the 1920's,” Science & Society 18 (Winter 1954), pp. 1-20
*Emily S. Rosenberg, "Economic Interest and United States Foreign Policy," in American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993, edited by Gordon Martel (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 37-51
*David A. Lake, "International Economic Structures and American Foreign Economic Policy, 1887-1934," World Politics 35 (July 1983), pp. 517-543
*George F. Kennan, American Diplomacy 1900-1950 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), foreword to p. 79
*George F. Kennan, “Comments on the paper entitled “Kennan versus Wilson”,” in The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link, edited by John Milton Cooper, Jr. and Charles E. Neu (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1991), pp. 327-330
Thomas Guinsburg, “The Triumph of Isolationism,” in American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993, edited by Gordon Martel (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 90-105 Thomas Guinsburg, “The Triumph of Isolationism,” in American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993, edited by Gordon Martel (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 90-105
Robert James Maddox, "Another Look at the Legend of Isolationism in the 1920s, Mid-America 53 (Jan. 1971)
A.J. Bacevich, "Charles Beard, Properly Understood," National Interest (Spring 1994), pp. 73-83
J. Garry Clifford, "Both Ends of the Telescope: New Perspectives on FDR and American Entry into World War II," Diplomatic History 13 (Spring 1989)
Justus D. Doenecke, "U.S. Policy and the European War, 1939-1941," Diplomatic History 19 (Fall 1995)
Ellis Hawley, "The Discovery and Study of a 'Corporate Liberalism'," Business History Review 52 (Autumn 1978)
Mark A. Stoler, "A Half Century of Conflict: Interpretations of U.S. World War II Diplomacy," Diplomatic History 18 (Summer 1994), pp. 375-403
William I. Cohen, Empire Without Tears: America's Foreign Relations, 1921-1933 (Knopf, 1987)
III. THE COLD WAR
WEEK 6. ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
*LaFeber, The American Age, pp. 413-501
*George F. Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs (July 1947), in American Diplomacy, pp. 89-106
*Walter Lippmann, "The Cold War," The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy (1947)
*J. Samuel Walker, "Historians and Cold War Origins: The New Consensus," in Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981), pp. 207-236
*Robert A. Pollard, "Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War: Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and American Rearmament," Diplomatic History 9 (Summer 1985), pp. 271-287
*Gar Alperowitz, "Hiroshima: Historians Reassess," Foreign Policy (Summer 1995), pp. 15-34
*Melvyn P. Leffler, "National Security and U.S. Foreign Policy," in Origins of the Cold War: An International History, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 15-52
C Jacob Heibrunn, “The Revision Thing,” The New Republic (August 15, 1994), pp. 31-39
Melvyn P. Leffler, "Inside Enemy Archives: The Cold War Reopened," Foreign Affairs (July/August 1996), pp. 120-135
Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace
John Lewis Gaddis, "The Cold War, the Long Peace, and the Future," in Michael J. Hogan, ed., The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications (on reserve)
Gabriel and Joyce Kolko, "Sustaining and Reforming World Capitalism," in The Origins of the Cold War, edited by Thomas G. Paterson (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1974)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "The Origins of the Cold War," Foreign Affairs (October 1967), pp. 22-52
Jonathon Knight, "The Great Power Peace: The United States and the Soviet Union since 1945," Diplomatic History 6 (Spring 1982)
Hans J. Morgenthau, "The Origins of the Cold War," in Origins of the Cold War, edited by Gardner, Schlesinger, and Morgenthau (Waltham, MA: Ginn, 1970), pp. 79-102
J. Samuel Walker, "The Decision to Use the Bomb: A Historiographical Update," Diplomatic History 14 (Winter 1990)
John Lewis Gaddis, "George F. Kennan and the Strategy of Containment," in Strategies of
Containment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 25-53
Gideon Rose, "The New Cold War Debate," National Interest (Winter 1994/95), pp. 89-96
WEEK 7: CHINA, KOREA AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE COLD WAR
*LaFeber, The American Age, 502-579
*Bruce Cummings, “Japan and the Asian Periphery,” in in Origins of the Cold War: An International History, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 215-235
*Robert Jervis, "The Impact of the Korean War upon the Cold War," Journal of Conflict Resolution 24 (Dec. 1980), pp. 563-592
*Lester Brune, “ Recent Scholarship and Findings about the Korean War,” American Studies International 36 (1998), pp. 4-14
*Townsend Hoopes, "God and John Foster Dulles," Foreign Policy (Winter 1973-74), pp. 154-177
*Stephen G. Rabe, "Eisenhower Revisionism: A Decade of Scholarship," Diplomatic History 17 (Winter 1993), pp. 97-115
Robert McMahon, "Eisenhower and Third World Nationalism," Political Science Quarterly 101 (1986)
Robert W. Kagan, "Why Like Ike?" The National Interest (Summer 1986), pp. 88-94
Russell D. Buhite, "'Major Interests': American Policy toward China, Taiwan, and Korea, 1945-1950," Pacific Historical Review 47 (Aug. 1978)
Rosemary Foot, "Leadership, Perceptions, and Interest: Chinese-American Relations in the Early Cold War," Diplomatic History 20 (Summer 1996)
Marc Gallicchio, “The Cold War in Asia,” in John M. Carroll and George C. Herring, Modern American Diplomacy (rev. ed.), 161-86
Martin Lichterman, "To the Yalu and Back," in American Civil-Military Decisions: A Book of Case Studies, edited by Harold Stein (Birmingham, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1963)
Robert J. McMahon, "The Cold War in Asia: Toward a New Synthesis?" Diplomatic History 12 (Summer 1988)
U.S., "NSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council," (April 14, 1950), reprinted in Naval War College Review (1975)
Samuel F. Wells, Jr., "Sounding the Tocsin: NSC 68 and the Soviet Threat," International Security (Fall 1979), pp. 116-158
Lawrence P. Frank, “The First Oil Regime,” World Politics (July 1985), pp. 586-598
Norman A. Graebner, "Eisenhower's Popular Leadership," Current History 39 (1960)
Fred I. Greenstein, "The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader; A 1994 Perspective," Presidential Studies Quarterly 24:2 (1994)
Robert Griffith, "Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Corporate Commonwealth," American Historical Review 87 (Feb. 1982)
WEEK 8. CONTAINMENT, DETERRENCE, FORCE, AND MODERNIZATION
*Walter LaFeber, The American Age, pp. 580-632
*Thomas G. Paterson, "Bearing the Burden: A Critical Look at JFK's Foreign Policy," Virginia Quarterly Review 54 (Spring 1978), pp. 193-212
*Nick Gullather, “The U.S. and Industrial Policy in Taiwan, 1950-65,” Diplomatic History (Winter 1996), pp. 1-25
*Alexander L. George and Richard Smoke, Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974), pp. 9-83, 591
*Jack L. Snyder, "Rationality at the Brink: The Role of Cognitive Processes in Failures of Deterrence," World Politics (April 1978), pp. 344-365
*John Lewis Gaddis, "The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System," International Security (Spring 1986), pp. 99-142
Michael Mastunduno, "Strategies of Economic Containment: U.S. Trade Relations with the Soviet Union," World Politics 37 (July 1985), pp. 503-531
Barry M. Blechman and Stephen S. Kaplan, "U.S. Military Forces as a Political Instrument Since World War II," Political Science Quarterly 95 (Summer 1979), pp. 193-210
Betty Glad and Charles S. Taber, "Images, Learning, and the Decision to Use Force: The Domino Theory of the United States," in Psychological Dimensions of War, edited by Betty Glad (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990), pp. 56-81
Robert A. Divine, "Alive and Well: The Continuing Cuban Missile Crisis Controversy," Diplomatic History 18 (Fall 1994)
Anthony Hartley, "John Kennedy's Foreign Policy," Foreign Policy (Fall 1971), pp. 77-87
Burton I. Kaufman, "John F. Kennedy as World Leader: A Perspective on the Literature," Diplomatic History 17 (Summer 1993)
James A. Nathan, "The Missile Crisis: His Finest Hour Now," World Politics (January 1975), pp. 256-281
Bruce J. Allyn, James G. Blight, and David A. Welch, "Essence of Revision: Moscow, Havana, and the Cuban Missile Crisis," International Security (Winter 1989/90), pp. 136-172
Tony Judt, "On the Brink," The New York Review of Books (January 15, 1998), pp. 52-59
WEEK 9. VIETNAM
*Hunt, Lyndon Johnson’s War, all
*Paul M. Kattenburg, "Vietnam and U.S. Diplomacy, 1940-1970," Orbis (Fall 1971), pp. 818-841
*Leslie Gelb, "Vietnam: The System Worked," Foreign Policy (Summer 1971), pp. 140-183
*J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power (New York: Vintage, 1966), pp. 3-22, 245-258
*Gary R. Hess, "The Unending Debate: Historians and the Vietnam War," Diplomatic History 18 (Spring 1994), pp. 239-264
James C. Thomson, Jr., "How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy," Atlantic Monthly (April 1968), pp. 47-53
Robert Dallek, "Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Making of a Tragedy," Diplomatic History 20 (Spring 1996)
Robert A. Divine, "Historiography: Vietnam Reconsidered," Diplomatic History 12 (Winter 1988)
George Herring, "The Vietnam War," in John M. Carroll and George Herring, Modern American
Diplomacy, 205-22
Larry Berman, "Coming to Grips with Lyndon Johnson's War," Diplomatic History 17 (Fall 1993)
Fox Butterfield, "The New Vietnam Scholarship," New York Times Magazine (February 13, 1983)
Ben Kiernan, "Review Article: The Vietnam War, Alternative Endings," American Historical Review 97 (October 1992)
Stephen Peter Rosen, "Vietnam and the American Theory of Limited War," International Security 7 (Fall 1982), pp. 83-113
WEEK 10. THE RISE AND DECLINE OF DETENTE
*LaFeber, The American Age, 633-744
*Robert L. Beisner, "History and Henry Kissinger," Diplomatic History 14 (Fall 1990), pp. 511-525
*Robert Kagan, “The Revisionist: How Henry Kissinger Won the Cold War; or so He Thinks,” The New Republic (June 21, 1999), pp. 38-48
*Jerel Rosati, "Jimmy Carter, A Man Before His Time? The Emergence and Collapse of the First Post-Cold War Presidency." Presidential Studies Quarterly 23 (Summer 1993), pp. 459-76
*Robert D. Pastor, "Explaining U.S. Policy Toward the Caribeean Basin: Fixed and Emerging Images," World Politics (April 1986), pp. 484-515
*Charles Kegley, Jr., “How Did the Cold War Die: Principles for an Autopsy,” Mershon International Studies Review 38 (April 1994), pp. 11-41
Kenneth E. Sharpe, “The Real Cause of Irangate,” Foreign Policy (Fall 1987), pp. 19-41
Morris J. Blachman and Donald J. Puchala, “ When Empires Meet; The Long Peace in Long-Term Perspective,” in The Long Postwar Peace; Contending Explanations and Projections (New York: Harper Collins, 1991), pp. 177-201
Paul Kennedy, "The (Relative) Decline of America," The Atlantic Monthly (August 1987), pp. 29-38
Henry Kissinger, "Reflections on Containment," Foreign Affairs (May/June 1994), pp. 113-130
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "The Misleading Metaphor of Decline," The Atlantic Monthly (March 1990), pp. 86-94
Stephen G. Walker, "The Interface Between Beliefs and Behavior: Henry Kissinger's Operational Code," Journal of Conflict Resolution 21 (1977), pp. 129-168
Douglas Brinkley, "The Rising Stock of Jimmy Carter: The "Hands on" Legacy of Our Thirty-ninth President," Diplomatic History 20 (Fall 1996), pp. 505-529
Eliot A. Cohen, "Constraints on America's Conduct of Small Wars," International Security 9 (Fall 1984), pp. 151-181
Terry L. Deibel, "Reagan's Mixed Legacy," Foreign Policy 75 (Summer 1989), pp. 34-55
Bruce W. Jentleson, "American Commitments in the Third World: Theory vs. Practice," International Organization 41 (Autumn 1987), pp. 667-704
Jules Levey, "Richard Nixon as Elder Statesman," Journal of Psychohistory 13 (Spring 1986)
Kenneth A. Oye, "Constrained Confidence and the Evolution of Reagan Foreign Policy," in Eagle Resurgent? The Reagan Era in American Foreign Policy, edited by Kenneth A. Oye, Robert J. Lieber and Donald Rothchild (Boston: Little, Brown, 1987), pp. 3-39
Edward N. Muller, "Dependent Economic Development, Aid Dependence on the United States, and Democratic Breakdown in the Third World," International Studies Quarterly 29 (December 1985), pp. 445-470
Franz Schurmann, The Foreign Politics of Richard Nixon: The Grand Design, chapter 2, "The Politics and Architecture of the Grand Design" (on reserve)
Simon Serfaty, "Play it Again, Zbig," Foreign Policy (Fall 1978), pp. 3-21
IV. THE POST-COLD WAR ERA AND INTO THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
WEEK 11. NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY UNDER BUSH AND CLINTON
*Walter LaFeber, The American Age, pp. 745-782
*Terry L. Deibel, "Bush's Foreign Policy: Mastery and Inaction," Foreign Policy 84 (Fall 1991), pp. 3-23
*Robert L. Borosage, "Inventing the Threat: Clinton's Defense Budget," World Policy Journal (Winter 1993/94), pp. 7-15
*Martin Walker, "Present at the Solution: Madeleine Albright's Ambitious Foreign Policy," World Policy Journal (Spring 1997), pp. 1-10
*Mark Danner, “The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe,” New York Review of Books (November 20, 1997), pp. 56-64
*Mark Danner, “Slouching Toward Dayton,” New York Review of Books (April 23, 1998), pp. 59-65
Brian Urquhart, “The Making of a Scapegoat,” The New York Review of Books (August 12, 1999), pp. 32-35
Eliot A. Cohen, "Down the Hatch: Dump the Bottom-up Review," New Republic (March 7, 1994), pp. 14-19
Walter Russell Mead, "Saul Among the Prophets: The Bush Administration and the New World Order," World Policy Journal (Summer 1991), pp. 375-420
Benjamin Schwarz, "The Vision Thing: Sustaining the Unsustainable," World Policy Journal (Winter 1994/95), pp. 101-121
Owen Harries, "My So-called Foreign Policy: The Case for Clinton's Diplomacy," New Republic (October 10, 1994), pp. 24-31
David Rieff, "Whose Internationalism, Whose Isolationism?" World Policy Journal (Summer 1996), pp. 1-12
Martin Walker, "The New American Hegemony," World Policy Journal (Summer 1996), pp. 13-22
Joel H. Rosenthal, "Henry Stimson's Clue: Is Progressive Internationalism on the Wane?" World Policy Journal (Fall 1997), pp. 53-62
Peter R. Andreas, Eva C. Bertram, Morris J. Blachman, and Kenneth E. Sharpe, "Dead-End Drug Wars," Foreign Policy (Winter 1991-92), pp. 106-128
David A. Baldwin, "Security Studies and the End of the Cold War," World Politics 48 (October 1995), pp. 117-141
Richard K. Betts, "Should Strategic Studies Survive," World Politics (50 (October 1997), pp. 7-33
WEEK 12. THE U.S. IN AN EVOLVING INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
*Robert Kuttner, The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy After the Cold War (New York: Knopf, 1991), pp. 3-81, 262-287
*Robert Kagan, “ What Korea Teaches: Models, Principles, and the Future of Democracy in Asia,” The New Republic (March 9, 1998), pp. 38-47
*Pietro S. Nivola, “Commercializing Foreign Affairs? American Trade Policy After the Cold War,” in U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War, edited by Randall B. Ripley and James M. Lindsay (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), pp. 235-256
*Robert Wade, “The Coming Fight over Capital Flows,” Foreign Policy 111 (Winter 1998-99), pp. 41-54
*Richard Rosecrance, “The Rise of the Virtual State: Implications for U.S. Policy,” Foreign Affairs 75 (July/August 1996), pp.
*Peter Beinart, "An Illusion For Our Time: The False Promise of Globalization," New Republic (October 20, 1997), pp. 20-24
Richard N. Gardner, “Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy in Current Perspective,” International Affairs 62 (Winter 1985-86), pp. 21-33
Jonathan Kwitny, "The Bankers, the Businessmen, and the Lawyers," in Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World (New York: Penguin, 1984), pp. 8-30
Benjamin J. Cohen, ""Return to Normalcy"? Global Economic Policy at the End of the Century," in Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Century, edited by Robert J. Lieber (New York: Longman, 1997), pp. 73-99
Walter Russell Mead, "On the Road to Ruin: Winning the Cold War, Losing the Economic Peace," Harper's (March 1990), pp. 59-65
Ethan B. Kapstein, "We Are US: The Myth of the Multinational," The National Interest (Winter 1991/92), pp. 55-62
Charles P. Kindleberger, "U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1776-1976," Foreign Affairs (January 1977), pp. 395-417
WEEK 13. CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY (CONTINUED) AND COMPETING PERSPECTIVES ON U.S. INTERNATIONALISM
*Barry R. Posen and Andrew L. Ross, "Competing U.S. Grand Strategies," in International Security 21(Winter 1996-97), pp. 5-53
*Jennifer Sterling-Folker,” “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Assertive Multilateralism and Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy,” in After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 277-304
*Rick Travis, “The Promotion of Democracy at the End of the Twentieth Century: A New Polestar for American Foreign Policy?” in After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 251-276
*John T. Rourke and Richard Clark, “Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward China in the Clinton Administration,” in After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 201-224
*Jerel Rosati, "U.S. Leadership into the Next Millenium: A Question of Politics." International Journal 52 (Spring 1997), 297-315
*Robert Buzzanco, “What Happened to the New Left? Toward a Radical Reading of American Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History 23 (Fall 1999), pp. 575-607
Christopher Layne, "From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy," International Security 22 (Summer 1997), pp. 86-124
Richard Ullman, “The US and the World: An Interview with George Kennan,” The New York Review of Books (August 12, 1999), pp. 4-6
Jerel Rosati, "Extending the Three-Headed and Four-Headed Eagles: The Foreign Policy Orientations of American Elites During the Eighties and Nineties." With John Creed. Political Psychology 18 (September 1997), pp. 583-623.
Robert W. Tucker, "The Future of a Contradiction," National Interest (Spring 1996), pp. 20-27
Jerel Rosati, "Cycles in Foreign Policy Restructuring: The Politics of Continuity and Change in U.S. Foreign Policy." In Foreign Policy Restructuring: How Governments Respond to Global Change, edited by Jerel A. Rosati, Joe D. Hagan, and Martin W. Sampson (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994), pp. 221-61.
John Lewis Gaddis, "Toward the Post-Cold War World," in The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 193-216
Coral Bell, “American Ascendancy--And the Pretense of Concert,” The National Interest 57 (Fall 1999), pp. 55-63
Samuel P. Huntington, “The Lonely Superpower,” Foreign Affairs (March/April 1999), pp. 35-49
Gary Wills, “Bully of the Free World,” Foreign Affairs (March/April 1999), pp. 50-59
V. CONCLUSION
WEEK 14. PLACING THE 20TH CENTURY AND THE FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE
*Henry Luce, “The American Century,” Diplomatic History 23 (Spring 1999), pp. 157-171
*Tony Smith, “Making the World Safe for Democracy,” Diplomatic History 23 (Spring 1999), pp. 189-218
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