POLS 335 - American Foreign Policy

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Description:

The purpose of this course is to study American foreign policy in regard to both the process of foreign policy making within the American political system and the substantive policy choices and debates within the Cold war and post-Cold War periods. Your principal textbook for this course, American Foreign Policy & Process, addresses both of these concerns. Course Objectives (1) Examine historic and cultural factors that shape the American approach to foreign policy; (2) Examine the political context of foreign policy; (3) Examine constitutional issues relating to foreign policy making and war powers within the American separation of powers system; (4) Examine specific foreign policy decision making of the recent past, especially since the end of World War II; and, (5) Examine historic and current debates over American foreign policy choices. A major subject of our concern will be the War on Terror and the two Iraq Wars

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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