POL 422 - Seminar on United States Foreign Policy

Institution:

CUNY Medgar Evers College

Subject:

Political Science

Description:

This course will focus on the changes and continuities of United States foreign policy in the World. Objectives of national strategy, effects of technology and social change on political, military and economic components of foreign policy will be rigorously analyzed. The course will review U.S. foreign policy during the cold war, nuclear weapons, relations with the former Soviet Union and China and the enduring concern with national security. A major theme will be new post-cold war issues of globalization, free markets and international terrorism. Another theme will be the restructuring and reorientation of U.S. foreign policy to meet the new challenges of the 21st century. The course will focus on economic, strategic, diplomatic, regional, and military alliances, sources of global conflicts and their resolution. An important theme of the course will be United States relations with the Third World.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mec.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 270-4900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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