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Introduction--Why study America; IR theories and AFP; judging FP success - Walt, S. “Making the Grade: Is there a way to judge if a foreign policy is successful?” Foreign Policy, Jan. 2014 - B. Posen & A.L. Ross, “Competing visions for US grand strategy”, International Security, 21/3, 5-53, 1996-97.
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Great power politics and the paradox of American primacy - Wohlforth, “The stability of a unipolar world,” International Security, 1999 - J.S. Nye, “The future of American power: Dominance and decline in perspective”, Foreign Affairs, 89/6, 2010. - Brooks and Wohlforth, “The once and future superpower: why China won’t overtake the US”, Foreign Affairs, 95/3, 2016.
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DOCTRINES & PRINCIPLES (1): Internationalism/Liberal Hegemony - S. Chaudoin, H. Milner, D. Tingley, “The center still holds: liberal internationalism survives,” International Security, 35/1, 75-94, 2010. - Braumoeller, B.F. “The myth of American isolationism,” Foreign Policy Analysis, 6/4, 349-371, 2010. - Anton, “America and Liberal International Order”, American Affairs, March 2017 https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/02/america-liberal-international-order/ - The Clinton White House, A Natl Security Strategy of Engagement & Enlargement (1995) - The Obama White House, National Security Strategy (2015)
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DOCTRINES & PRINCIPLES (2): Isolationism/Realist Hegemony - J. Busby, J. Monten, “Without heirs? Assessing the decline of establishment of internationalism in US Foreign policy”, Perspectives on Politics, 6/3, 451-472, 2016. - Mearsheimer and Walt, “The case for offshore balancing,” Foreign Affairs, 95/4, 2016 http://johnmearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/Offshore%20Balancing.pdf - Walt, “How not to fix the Liberal World Order,” Foreign Policy, March 2017 http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/06/how-not-to-fix-the-liberal-world-order/ - The Bush White House, The Ntl Security Strategy of the USA (2002) - The Trump White House?
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DECISION-MAKING ACTORS (1): The Executive Branch - E.N. Saunders, “Transformative choices: leaders and the origins of intervention strategy,” International Security, 34/2, 119-161, 2009. - M.E. Gallagher & S.H. Allen, “Presidential personality: not just a nuisance,” Foreign Policy Analysis, 10, 2-21, 2014. - M. Glennon, “National security and double government”, Harvard National Security Journal, 5, 2014.
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DECISION-MAKING ACTORS (2): Congress & Lobbies - J.M. Lindsay, “Congress and foreign policy: Why the Hill matters,” Political Science Quarterly, 107/4, 607-28, 1992/3. - Mearsheimer and Walt, “The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy,” Middle East Policy, 13/3, 29-87, 2006. (skim main arguments) - Walt, “How not to think about the Israel lobby”, Foreign Policy, 2013. http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/11/01/how-not-to-think-about-the-israel-lobby/
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DECISION-MAKING ACTORS (3): Public opinion/other elites/media - B.E. Goldsmith & H. Yusaku, “In search of soft power: does foreign public opinion matter for US foreign policy,” World Politics, 64/3, 555-585, 2012. - R.M. Stein, “War and revenge: Explaining conflict initiation by democracies,” American Political Science Review, 109/3, 2015. - S.K. Gadarian, “The politics of threat: How terrorism news shapes foreign policy attitudes,” Journal of Politics, 72/2, 469-483, 2010.
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ISSUES/CHALLENGES (1): Dealing with states, revisionism/nuclear challenges - T.V. Paul, “Global Peaceful Change and Accommodation of Rising Powers: A Scholarly Perspective,” All Azimuth, V6, N2, Jul. 2017, 85-94. - F. Kaplan, “Rethinking nuclear policy-taking stock of the stockpile”, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/americas/2016-08-01/rethinking-nuclear-policy - Iran (TBD) - Korea (TBD)
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ISSUES/CHALLENGES (2): Dealing with non-state actors - B. Miller, “Explaining changes in US grand strategy: 9/11, the rise of offensive liberalism and the war in Iraq,” Security Studies, 19(1), 26-65, 2010.
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REGIONS (1): America and Russia - M. McFaul, K. Stoner, “Who lost Russia (This time)? Vladimir Putin”, The Washington Quarterly, 38/2, 167-187, 2015. - “Sergey Lavrov: The Interview”, The National Interest, March 29, 2017. http://nationalinterest.org/feature/sergey-lavrov-the-interview-19940
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REGIONS (2): America and China/Far East - J. Scott, “The Challenge of the South China Sea: Congressional Engagement and the U.S. Policy Response”, All Azimuth, online first. - J. Ikenberry, “From hegemony to balance of power: The rise of China nad American grand strategy in East Asia”, International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, 23/2, 41-63, 2014. - K. Lieberthal, “The American pivot to Asia,” Foreign Policy, Dec. 21, 2011. - R. Ross, “The problem with the pivot,” Foreign Affairs, 91/6, 70-82, Dec. 2012. - TBD, Trump-era article.
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REGIONS (3): America and the Middle East - C. Freeman, “Militarism and the crisis of American diplomacy”, Epistudae, no. 20, July 2015 - K.M. Pollack, “Fight or flight: America’s choice in the Middle East,” Foreign Affairs, 2016. - President Obama, “Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa,” The White House, May 19, 2011. - A. Krieg, “Externalizing the burden of war: the Obama doctrine and US foreign policy in the Middle East,” International Affairs, 92/1, 97-113, 2016. - D. Trump (August 20, 2017), “Address on Afghanistan, plans for US engagement” (or other TBD)
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Trump’s America and Turkey (TBD) - S. Sestanovich, “The brilliant incoherence of Trump’s foreign policy”, Atlantic Monthly, May 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/the-brilliant-incoherence-of-trumps-foreign-policy/521430/ - Transcript to D. Trump’s first foreign policy speech, April 27, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/politics/transcript-trump-foreign-policy.html?_r=0