Department of Government
Fall 2002

Professor Ken Rodman

Office Hours:

x3270
Tuesday and Thursday, 11-12,
Miller 255
Wednesday 10-12

karodman@colby.edu

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY (II):

AFTER THE COLD WAR

Government 232

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course explores the conduct of U.S. foreign policy in a post-Cold War environment. The first part of the class raises the central issues addressed over the course of the semester. These are (a) the role of realist versus liberal internationalist considerations in U.S. foreign policy, (b) the debate over multilateralism, (c) the role of domestic political institutions and the impact of democracy on foreign policy, and (d) the question of how factors, such as the end of the Cold War, globalization, and the events of September 11, 2001, have or have not altered American foreign policy and the process by which it is made. The remainder of the course will apply these questions to various regions (Russia, Europe, East Asia, the Middle East) and functional issues (military intervention, nonproliferation, human rights, trade, and the environment).

READINGS

The following books are available for purchase at the bookstore:

Lieber, Eagle Rules: Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century

Carter, Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade

Hastedt, American Foreign Policy: Annual Editions 02/03

ASSIGNMENTS

1. Two take-home essay assignments, each of which will count for 25% of your final grade. The first assignment will be passed out on Thursday, October 3 and due on in my office at 5:00 on Friday, October 11. The second will be passed out on Thursday, November 7 and due in my office on Friday, November 15 at 5:00.

2. Final Examination (35%)

3. Attendance and Participation (15%)

COURSE OUTLINE

 

September 5:

Introduction

Lieber, Eagle Rules?, ch. 1

September 10:

Defining the National Interest: Realism versus Liberalism

Kissinger, Diplomacy, ch. 2 (RESERVE)

Hastedt, ch. 14

Kristol & Kagan, "Towards a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy"

Foreign Affairs (July/August 1996): 18-32. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9606282464

Talbott, "Democracy and the National Interest" Foreign Affairs (November/December 1996): 47-63. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9708190336

Mandelbaum, "The Inadequacy of American Power" Foreign Affairs (September/October 2002): 61-73. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=7215159

September 12:

Debating the Means: Unilateralism versus Multilateralism

Lieber, ch. 16

Hastedt, chs. 5, 16, 33

Ikenberry, "America’s Imperial Ambition," Foreign Affairs (September/October 2002): 44-60. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=7215158

Kagan, "Power and Weakness" Policy Review (June/July 2002): 3-28. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6805213

Nye, "Seven Tests" National Interest (Winter 2001-2002): 5-13. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5827385

Recommended:

Krauthhammer, "The Unipolar Moment" Foreign Affairs:

America and the World (1990-1991): 23-33

Patrick & Forman, eds., Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign

Policy

Prins, ed., Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign

Relations

Kagan, "The Benevolent Empire" Foreign

Policy (Summer 1998): 24-35

McNamara and Blight, Wilson’s Ghost

September 17 & 19:

Institutional Sources of US Foreign Policy

Mastanduno, "A Decidedly Inferior Form of Government" (RESERVE)

Huntington, "The Erosion of American National Interests" Foreign Affairs (September/October 1997): 28-49. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9712070258

Lindsay, "Congress and Foreign Policy: Avenues of Influence" (RESERVE)

Lieber, chs. 2, 3

Hastedt, chs. 15, 19, 20

September 24 & 26:

US Relations with a Post-Cold War Russia

Mandelbaum, The Dawn of Peace in Europe, pp. 81-109

Lieber, ch. 5

Hastedt, chs. 6-7

Recommended:

McFaul, "Getting Russia Right" Foreign Policy (Winter 1999-

2000), pp. 58-73

Brzezinski, "The Premature Partnership" Foreign Affairs (March-April 1994)

Pipes, "Is Russia Still the Enemy?" Foreign Policy (September-

October 1997), pp. 65-78

Mark, "Eurasia Letter: Russia and the New Transcaucasus" Foreign Policy (Winter 1996), p. 141-160

Lapidus, "Contested Sovereignty: The Tragedy of Chechnya"

International Security (Summer 1998), pp. 5-50

October 1:

NATO after the Cold War

Lieber, ch. 4

Hastedt, ch. 24

Mandelbaum, "Preserving the New Peace" Foreign Affairs (May/June 1995): 9-13. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9505090746

October 3 & 8:

NATO, Russia and Intervention in the Balkans

Hastedt, chs. 8-9

Carter, chs. 2-3

Jonathan Marcus, "Kosovo and After: American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century" Washington Quarterly (Winter 2000) http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=2755344

Recommended:

Daalder, Getting to Dayton

Sharp, "Dayton Report Card" International Security (Winter 1997): 101-137

Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo

Mandelbaum, "A Perfect Failure" Foreign Affairs (September/October 1999): 2-8

Martin and Brawley, eds., Allied Force or Forced Allies: Kosovo and NATO’s War

October 10 & 17:

Power Balancing and Integration in East Asia

Lieber, ch. 9

Hastedt, chs. 10-11

Carter, ch. 12

October 18 & 24:

US Policy in the Middle East

Lieber, chs. 7, 8

Hastedt, ch 12

Recommended:

Litwak, Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy

Gause, "The Illogic of Dual Containment" Foreign Affairs (March/April 1994): 56-66

Byman, "After the Storm: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq Since 1991,"

Political Science Quarterly (Winter 2000-2001): 493-516

October 26 & 31:

The Use of Force - From Peacekeeping to the War on Terrorism

Lieber, chs. 6 (only on intervention in Haiti) 10 (only sections dealing with humanitarian intervention in Africa), 11, 12

Hastedt, chs. 1, 2, 3, 23, 31, 32

Carter, ch. 8

Pollack, "Next Stop Baghdad" Foreign Affairs (March/April 2002): 32-47. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6249369

Strauss, "Attacking Iraq," Foreign Policy (March/April 2002): 14-19. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6259657

November 5, 7 & 12:

Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation: Multilateral versus Unilateral Approaches

Lieber, ch. 13

Carter, chs. 5, 6, 7

Hastedt, chs. 25, 34, 35

Mazarr, "Going Just a Little Nuclear: Nonproliferation Lessons from North Korea," International Security (Fall 1995) http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9512092790

Glaser & Fetter, "National Missile Defense and the Future of Nuclear Weapons Policy" International Security(Summer 2001), pp. 40-92

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v026/26.1glaser.html for html

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v026/26.1glaser.pdf for the pdf

Payne, "The Case for National Missile Defense" Orbis (Spring 2000) http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=2958978

November 14 & 19:

Democracy and Human Rights

Carter, chs. 1, 4, 15

Hastedt, chs. 17, 18

Guay, "Local Government and Global Politics: The Implications of the Massachusetts Burma Law" Political Science Quarterly (Fall 2000): 353-376. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3726538

Roth, "The Case for Universal Jurisdiction" Foreign Affairs

(September/October 2001): 150-154. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5032334

November 21, 26 & December 3:

Foreign Economic Policy

Lieber, ch. 10 (sections on NAFTA and economic policy), 14

Hastedt, chs. 27-30

Carter, ch. 10, 11, 14

December 5:

U.S. Environmental Policy

Lieber, ch. 15

Carter, ch. 13

Hastedt, ch. 13