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The American University in Cairo
Political Science 554-01
Comparative Foreign Policy: Theories and Applications
Wednesday 5:00-7:25
Dr. Gamal A. Gawad Soltan
Office Hours: Sunday, Wednesday 10:00-11:00
Tuesday 2:30-4:00
And By Appointment
Office: HUSS 2036
Email: gsoltan@aucegypt.edu
Course Description:
This course focuses on the study of the Foreign Policy in both theoretical and applied terms.
Foreign policy is treated in this course as the point of intersection between large number of
domestic and external factors. However, the study of foreign policy continues to be strongly
linked to it mother discipline: International Relations.
This course is divided into three parts:
1. The theoretical approaches to the study of foreign policy.
2. The foreign policy of selected states.
3. Comparing the foreign policy of groups of nations.
Grading and Requirements:
Final grades will be assigned according to your performance on the following items:
1) Three Analytical Papers
70%
2) Presentations and Participation
20%
3) Attendance
10%
The requirements for this course include:
1) Three analytical papers as follows.
a. A Country's Foreign Policy Review Article: In this assignment the student
should provide a review of a number of major contributions to the study of the
foreign policy of a selected country. The reviewed works should apply as many as
possible of the different approaches to the study of foreign policy. A country's
foreign policy review article should demonstrate the student’s ability to identify,
compare and evaluate the applicability of different theoretical approaches vis à vis
the selected country. The country's foreign policy review article should cover a
minimum of one books and seven scholarly articles. The length of a country
review article should be about 3000 words. The country's foreign policy review
article is worth 20% of the total grade.
The due date for the country's foreign policy review article is March 5th.
b. A Thematic Review Article: In this assignment the student should provide a
review of a number of major contributions to the study of foreign policy.
Reviewed Works should be addressing or applying the same theoretical approach.
Approaches such as national attributes, cognition, bureaucratic politics, rational
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decision making, constructivism are among the approaches that could be selected
in this exercise. The thematic review article should cover a minimum of two
books and seven scholarly articles published in academic journals. Students are
advised to begin this exercise by the careful reading of few of the review articles
frequently published in academic journals. This should help students decide on
their approach and style in writing a review article. The length of a thematic
review article should be about 3000 words. The thematic review article is worth
%20 of the total grade.
The due date for the thematic review article is April 9rd.
c. A Comparative Research Paper: In this assignment the student should provide a
quality research paper disrobing and analyzing the patterns of foreign policy of a
particular set of nations. The selected set of nations could be defined in many
ways based on geography, level of development, ideology, or capabilities. The
selection of nations should be deliberate so that it would allow the student to apply
and test a theoretical approach of his choice. The length of a research paper should
be about 4000 words. The research paper is worth %30 of the total grade.
The due date for the comparative research paper is May 14th. Soft copies
should be sent to the professor's e-mail.
2) Presentations: In addition to the weekly presentations, in which selected students
are required to present the assigned weekly readings, each student will be required
to present his thematic and country review articles in class. For each presentation,
there will be a student discussant to provide constructive comments on the
presentation. Students should choose the discussant and make sure he receives the
paper in proper time. Twenty percent (20%) of the total grade of this class is
assigned to presentations.
3) Attendance: Students are expected to attend regularly and participate in class
discussions. Attendance will be taken in each session. More than one unexcused
absences will result in a deduction from your final grade. Three times of
unjustified absence will automatically result in a grade of (F). Attendance is
allocated 10% of the total grade.
Topics and Readings
Week 1 Feb 5
Introduction
Week 2 Feb 12
Foreign Policy, the domain and the state of the discipline
Readings:
1. Christopher Hill, The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy, Ch. 1
(RESERVE)
2. Valerie Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch. 1 (RESERVE)
3. Laura Neack, Jeanne Hey and Patrick Haney, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch.
1 (RESERVE)
4. Laura Neack, Jeanne Hey and Patrick Haney, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch. 2
(RESERVE)
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5. Laura Neack, Jeanne Hey and Patrick Haney, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch. 3
(RESERVE)
Week 3 Feb 19
The Broader Context: Realism and Liberalism
Readings:
1. Richard Ned Lebow, Classical Realism , in iTim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve
Smith (eds.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2010, Ch.3
(RESERVE)
2. John Mearshheimer, Structural Realsim, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve
Smith (eds.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2010, Ch.4
(RESERVE)
3. Bruce Russett, Liberalism, Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.),
International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2010, Ch.5 (RESERVE)
4. Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Neoliberalilsm, Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith
(eds.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2010, Ch.6
(RESERVE)
5. Miroslav Nincic, The National Interest and Its Interpretation, The Review of
Politics, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 29-55 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 4 Feb 26
The Broader Context: The English School, Marxism, Critical Theory and
Constructivism
Readings:
1. Tim Dunne, The English School, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.),
International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2010, Ch.7 (RESERVE)
2. Mark Rupert, Marxism and Critical Theory, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve
Smith (eds.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2010, Ch.8
(RESERVE)
3. K. M. Fierke, Constructivism, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.),
International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 2010, Ch.9 (RESERVE)
4. Kaufman, Stuart (1999), Approaches to Global Politics in the Twenty-First
Century, International Studies Review, 1:2, pp. 193-221. (BLACKBOARD)
5. A.J.R. Groom, Foreign Policy Analysis: From Little Acorn to Giant Oak?
International Studies 2007 44: 195 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 5 March 5
country's foreign policy review article dues
Rational Decision Making
Readings
1. Christopher Hill, Ch. 5 (RESERVE)
2. Daniel S. Geller and J. David Singer, Nations at War, Ch. 2
(RESERVE)
3. Kahler, Miles (1998), ‘Rationality in international Relations’,
International Organization, 52:4, pp. 919-941. (BLACKBOARD)
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4. Jervis, Robert (1989), ‘Rational Deterrence: Theory and Evidence’,
World Politics, 41:2, pp. 183-207. (BLACKBOARD)
5. Andrew Farkas, Evolutionary Models in Foreign Policy Analysis,
International Studies Quarterly (1996) 40, 343-361 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 6 March 12
Cognition and Foreign Policy
Readings:
1. Valerie Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch. 2 (RESERVE)
2. Kristen Renwick Monroe and Kristen Hill Maher, Psychology and
Rational Actor Theory, Political Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 1, (Mar.,
1995), pp. 1-21. (BLACKBOARD)
3. Brian Ripley, Psychology, Foreign Policy, and International Relations
Theory, Political Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 403-416.
(BLACKBOARD)
4. Valerie M. Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis: Actor-Specific Theory
and the Ground of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis
(2005) 1, 1–30 (BLACKBOARD)
5. Kai Oppermann and Alexander Spencer, Thinking Alike? Salience
and Metaphor Analysis as Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy
Analysis, Foreign Policy Analysis (2013) 9, 39–56 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 7 March 19
Bureaucratic Politics
Readings:
1. Graham T. Allison and Morton H. Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics: A
Paradigm and Some Policy Implications, World Politics, Vol. 24, (Spring,
1972), pp. 40-79 (BLACKBOARD)
2. Christopher Hill, Ch. 3 (RESERVE)
3. Laura Neack, Jeanne Hey and Patrick Haney, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch.
6. (RESERVE)
4. Martin A. Smith, US bureaucratic politics and the decision to invade Iraq,
Contemporary Politics, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2008, 91–105
(BLACKBOARD)
5. Jutta Weldes, Bureaucratic Politics: A Critical Constructivist Assessment,
Mershon International Studies Review, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Nov., 1998), pp. 216225 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 8 March 26
Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy
Readings:
1. Laura Neack, Jeanne Hey and Patrick Haney, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch. 8.
(RESERVE)
2. Christopher Hill, Ch. 9 (RESERVE)
3. Christopher Hill, Ch 10 (RESERVE)
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4. Fiona B. Adamson, Democratization and the Domestic Sources of Foreign
Policy: Turkey in the 1974 Cyprus Crisis, Political Science Quarterly, Vol.
116, No. 2, pp. 277-303 (BLACKBOARD)
5. Saori N. Katada1 and Mireya Solı´s, Domestic sources of Japanese foreign
policy activism: loss avoidance and demand coherence, International Relations
of the Asia-Pacific Volume 10 (2010) 129–157 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 9 April 2
National Attributes Developing Nations and Capabilities
Readings:
1. Laura Neack, Jeanne Hey and Patrick Haney, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch.
11. (RESERVE)
2. Laura Neack, Jeanne Hey and Patrick Haney, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch.
12. (RESERVE)
3. Valerie Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch. 6 (RESERVE)
4. Christopher Hill, Ch. 6 (RESERVE)
5. James N. Rosenau, Capabilities and Control in an Interdependent World,
International Security, Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1976, pp. 32-49,
(BLACKBOARD)
Week 10 April 9
Thematic Review Paper dues
Issue Areas, Agency and Role
Readings:
1. Walter Carlsnaes¸ The Agency-Structure Problem in Foreign Policy
Analysis, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 245270 (BLACKBOARD)
2. Stephan Haggard and Beth A. Simmons, Theories of International Regimes,
International Organization, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Summer, 1987), pp. 491-517
3. William C. Potter, Issue Area and Foreign Policy Analysis, International
Organization, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Summer, 1980), pp. 405-427
(BLACKBOARD)
4. K. J. Holsti, National role conception in the study of foreign policy,
International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1970), pp. 233-309
(Blackboard)
5. Cristian Cantir, and Juliet Kaarbo, Contested Roles and Domestic Politics:
Reflections on Role Theory in Foreign Policy Analysis and IR Theory,
Foreign Policy Analysis (2012) 8, 5–24 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 11 April 16
Culture, Values, and Identity
Readings
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1. Valerie Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis, Ch. 4 (RESERVE)
2. Brenda Shaffer, Introduction: The Limits of Culture, in Brenda Shaffer (ed.),
The Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy, 2006, pp. 1-26. (E-Book)
3. Markus Fischer, Culture and Foreign Politics, in Brenda Shaffer (ed.), The
Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy, 2006, pp. 27-64. (E-Book)
4. Douglas W. Blum, Beyond Blood and Belief, in Brenda Shaffer (ed.), The
Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy, 2006, pp. 65-83. (E-Book)
5. Carolyn M. Warner, and Stephen G. Walker, Thinking about the Role of
Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis, Foreign Policy
Analysis (2011) 7, 113–135 (BLACKBOARD)
6. DAVID PATRICK HOUGHTON (2007) Reinvigorating the Study of Foreign
Policy Decision Making: Toward a Constructivist Approach, Foreign Policy
Analysis (2007) 3, 24–45
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Week 12
SPRING BREAK
Week 13 April 23
Global Politics in a New Era
Readings
1. Buzan, Barry (2004), The United States and the Great Powers, pp. 16-45.
(Reserve)
2. James N. Rosenau, Illusions Of Power And Empire, History and Theory,
Issue4 (December2005), 73-87 (BLACKBOARD)
3. Florini, Ann (2011), Rising Asian Powers and Changing Global Governance,
International Studies Review 13, 24–33 (BLACKBOARD)
4. Andrew F. Hart & Bruce D. Jones (2011): How Do Rising Powers Rise?,
Survival, 52:6, 63-88. (BLACKBOARD)
5. Jordaan, Edward (2003), The concept of Middle Powers in International
relations, Politikon, 30:2, pp. 165-181. (BLACKBOARD)
Week 14 April 30
Regional Powers, Middle Powers, Pivotal States, and Emerging powers I
Readings
1. Robert North, War Peace Survival, Ch. 8 (RESERVE)
2. James N. Rosenau, Understanding World Affairs: The Potential of
Collaboration, Globalizations, December 2004, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 328–341
(BLACKBOARD)
3. Schrim, Stefan (2010), Leader in need of followers: Emerging powers in
global governance, European Journal of International Relations, 16:2, pp. 197221. (BLACKBOARD)
4. Barnett, Michael and Duvall, Raymond (2005), Power in International
Relations, International Organization, 59:1, pp. 39-75. (BLACKBOARD)
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5. Midlarsky, Manus (1993), Polarity and International Stability, American
Political Science Review, 87:1, pp. 171-180 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 15 May 7
Regional Powers, Middle Powers, Pivotal States, and Emerging powers II
Readings
1. Buzan, Barry and Weaver, Ole (2003), Regions and Powers: The
Structure of International Security, pp. 3-89.
(Reserve)
2. Buzan, Barry (2004), The United States and the Great Powers, pp. 46-76.
(Reserve)
3. Armijo, Leslie Elliott (2007), The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and
China) Countries as Analytical Category: Mirage or Insight,
(BLACKBOARD)
4. Ross, Robert (2006), Balance of Power politics and the rise of China,
Security Studies 15: 3, pp. 355–395 (BLACKBOARD)
5. Tow, William (2011), China’s pragmatic security policy, THE CHINA
JOURNAL, NO. 65, pp. 157-178 (BLACKBOARD)
Week 16 May 14
Comparative Paper Due
Wrap up and presentation of the comparative research paper
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