PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Term 1, Week 1
INTRODUCTION: APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING US FOREIGN POLICY
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What is foreign policy?
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What are the main theories, models and approaches to understanding US foreign policy?
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What makes US foreign policy significant in international relations?
Required reading
On approaches to US foreign policy
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I. Parmar, L. B. Miller & M. Ledwidge, eds, New Directions in US Foreign Policy, Ch. 1-5
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M. Cox and D. Stokes, eds, US Foreign Policy, Introduction & Ch. 1
On foreign policy analysis
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C. Hill, The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy, esp. Ch. 1-6 OR M. Webber & M.
Smith, Foreign Policy in a Transformed World, Ch. 1-4
Further Reading
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G. Allison & P. Zelikow, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, Second
Edition, esp. Ch. 1, 3, 5 & 7
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R. Burbach & J. Tarbell, Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire, Ch.
1-3
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D. Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity,
Revised Edition
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M. Cox, J. Ikenberry and T. Inoguchi, eds, American Democracy Promotion: Impulses,
Strategies, and Impacts, Ch. 1-6
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R. Crockatt, America Embattled: 9/11, Anti-Americanism and Global Order, Ch. 1
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S. Croft, Culture, Crisis and America’s War On Terror, esp. Ch. 1-2
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J. Dumbrell, The Making of US Foreign Policy, Second Edition, Ch. 1-2
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F. A. Gerges, America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests?, Ch. 1
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S. Halper & J. Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservative and the Global Order
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G. Hastedt, American Foreign Policy: Past Present and Future, Ch. 1-5, 11
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M. J. Hogan and T. G. Paterson, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
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O. R. Holsti, Making American Foreign Policy, Ch. 1-3, 12
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S. W. Hook, US Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power, Ch. 3
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M. Hunt, Ideology and US Foreign Policy, Ch 1
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R. J. Jackson and P. Towle, Temptations of Power: The United States in Global Politics after
9/11, Part 1
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B. Jentleson, American Foreign Policy, Third Edition, Ch.1-2
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C. W. Kegley, Jr & E. R. Wittkopf, American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process, Fifth Edition,
Ch. 1-2, 13-14
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R. J. Lieber, The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century, Ch. 1
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T. B. McCrisken, American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US foreign policy since
1974, esp. Ch. 1-2
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T. M. Magstadt, An Empire If You Can Keep It, Ch. 1
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W. R. Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World
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H. R. Nau, At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy, Intro & Ch. 1-3
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L. Neack, The New Foreign Policy: US and Comparative Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
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J. Nye, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, esp. Ch 1-2
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I. Parmar & M. Cox, eds, Soft Power and US Foreign Policy
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S. Renshon & D. Welch Larson, eds, Good Judgment in Foreign Policy, Ch. 1-2
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D. Ryan, US Foreign Policy in World History, Ch. 1-3
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K. K. Schonberg, Constructing 21st Century US Foreign Policy [Electronic resource]
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S. Smith, A. Hadfield and T. Dunne, Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases
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J. W. Taliaferro, Realism and US Foreign Policy: The Primacy of Power
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M. Webber & M. Smith, Foreign Policy in a Transformed World, Ch. 1-4
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W. A. Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, esp. Intro, Ch. 1 & Conclusion