Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
Part 1: Theories of U.S. Foreign Policy
1 Hypotheses, Laws, Theories and Case Studies
2 Theories of American Foreign Policy Exercise 1 (1-page) due
Part 2: American Grand Strategies
3 Contending Grand Strategies Past and Present
4 The War on Terror

Other National Security Policy Issues
5 Other Policy Issues and Debates Exercise 2 (1-page) due
Part 3: Case Histories: American Wars, Crises and Interventions
6 The Filipino-Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II
7 Historical Methods
8 The Outbreak of the Pacific War, 1941
9 The Cold War, Korea, and the 1950s
10 The Indochina War, 1945-1975

The Iraq War of 1991
11 Other U.S. Third World Interventions Paper 1 due
Part 4: Conclusion
12 Current Crises

The Future of American Foreign Policy
13 Paper 2 due