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Law, Diplomacy, & Power
by Michael R. Fowler
Sit back as Dr. Fowler shares the history of American foreign policy-making like its the greatest story ever told.This wholly online course examines the development of U.S. foreign relations, especially the interplay of legal, diplomatic, and power-driven motives and themes. While examining the manner in which the principal doctrines and institutions of American foreign policy became established, we will analyze the varying strategies and objectives, errors and accomplishments, of particular foreign policymakers within changing domestic and international contexts.
Episodes
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26: Foreign Policy Limits within a Unipolar World - Bill Clinton
The purpose of our twenty-sixth class is to examine the foreign policy challenges that faced the Bill Clinton administration and assess how these might best be characterized and appraise how they were handled. We will focus on two case studies, typical of post-Cold War issues and problems: the...
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25: A New World Order?: George H. W. Bush
The purpose of our twenty-fifth class is to examine the transition from the Cold War to the post-Cold War eras and then examine some key aspects of early post-Cold War American foreign policy. What was meant by the phrase ‘a new world order”? What role did U.S. officials play in the demise of the...
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24: Democracy Ascendant?: Ronald Reagan
The purpose of our twenty-fourth class is to analyze the new approaches that the Reagan Administration took to the making of U.S. foreign policy. Students should use the lecture and reading materials to come to their own views as to the Reagan Doctrine, the ensuing efforts to promote democracy in...
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23: Camp David, Human Rights, Hostages: Jimmy Carter
The purpose of our twenty-third class is to examine the challenges that confronted U.S. policymakers after withdrawal from Vietnam. We will start by analyzing Henry Kissinger’s step-by-step, or shuttle, diplomacy in the Middle East. Then, we will ask how did the Carter Administration’s foreign...
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22: Triangular Diplomacy
After a look at the Johnson administration’s intervention in the Dominican Republic and the post-Watergate changes in the presidency, the central purpose of our twenty-second class, lecture and readings, is to explore three mileposts of the Nixon/ Kissinger years as the top U.S. foreign...
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21: Vietnam War
The purpose of our twenty-first class is to explore how and why the United States government chose to enter the quagmire of problems in Vietnam and then to outline the key stages in the fighting as well as the major diplomatic efforts in the Vietnam War. How and why did U.S. foreign policymakers...
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20: Cuban Missle Crisis
The purpose of class twenty is to examine the Bay of Pigs operation and then the Cuban Missile Crisis. What happened at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, and what were some of its consequences? We will next explore how the world’s most dangerous crisis came about, and how exactly it got resolved, averting...
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19: Downhill Slide
We move back today to Latin America, and then on to the Middle East, where some of the next important stages of the Cold War occurred. The purpose of our nineteenth class is to think through the factors that contributed to the increasingly difficult U.S. relations with Latin America and the…
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3: The Federalist/Republican Split & the War of 1812
The purpose of this 3rd class is to watch America’s two political parties contend over foreign affairs, and then to examine one of America’s most controversial wars: the War of 1812. Students should understand how and why a split occurred between the Federalists, the party of Washington, Adams…
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2: Post-Independence Diplomacy
The purpose of this second class is to give students a better sense for American foreign policy in the years after the conclusion of the war for independence. The class meeting and readings should leave you with a firm grasp of what international concerns occupied the attention of the country’s...
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1: The Colonial & Revolutionary Heritage
The purpose of this first class is to give students a better sense for what was the heritage of the American colonial era and the American revolution for America’s first diplomats. The first couple of classes should leave you with a firm grasp of early American foreign policies. Today, we will...
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Sit back as Dr. Fowler shares the history of American foreign policy-making like its the greatest story ever told.This wholly online course examines the development of U.S. foreign relations, especially the interplay of legal, diplomatic, and power-driven motives and themes. While examining the manner in which the principal doctrines and institutions of American foreign policy became established, we will analyze the varying strategies and objectives, errors and accomplishments, of particular foreign policymakers within changing domestic and international contexts.
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