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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the political, economic and social development of modern Latin America. It examines the transformation of traditional authority structures, efforts to promote economic development, and more recent concerns for the consolidation of democracy, adjustment to globalization, and U.S. Latin American relations.
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3.00 Credits
Examines Japan's development into a modern and stable society. Topics include style and substance in Japanese politics; lessons for America, Japan's emergence as a power in world politics, relations with the United States, and remilitarization of Japanese foreign policy. Films and guest speakers supplement lectures.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the roots of nationalism in Europe, Third World nationalism and colonial empires, nationalism and war, ethnic, class, and racial conflict, the future of multinational states, implications for U.S. foreign policy and efforts to establish a stable world system.
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3.00 Credits
Examines methods of intelligence collection, problems of analysis, impact of intelligence on foreign policy, intelligence as the first line of defense, comparison of American, Russian, Israeli, and European agencies. Analyzes tensions between secret intelligence and democracy. Guest lectures by intelligence professionals and a tour and briefing at CIA headquarters.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the challenges and prospects facing Russia and the former Soviet Republics today. The first part of the course focuses upon the politics of the Soviet Union and the second on the post-Soviet era.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the republican period and the civil war, the role of the Communist Party and the People's Army, the search for modernization, the legacy of Maoism, and relations with Japan, Russia and the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyses the genesis, development, and consequences of internal war, from the Swamp Fox to contemporary Colombia, with special emphasis on the strategy and tactics of guerilla warfare, as well as British, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and American styles of counter-insurgency.
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3.00 Credits
Examines fundamental themes, processes and tendencies in U.S. foreign policy with special attention to the Cold War and its aftermath.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates security policy and contemporary security challenges. During the Cold War, security was widely believed to depend on military power and was based on deterrence, weapons development and alliance formation. Since the 1990s, such an understanding of security has been questioned. Examines the economy, environment, immigration, and human rights as security issues.
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3.00 Credits
From Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, the American people have looked to the President in times of crisis as the only agent capable of identifying and acting on the national interest. The view of the President is as rhetorical leader is an implicit part of our political culture, as Americans expect that Presidents will express themselves publicly, promote policy initiatives, and inspire the population. Yet, ironically, this is not how the founders envisioned the office of the presidency. Madison and his contemporaries feared that frequent appeals to the public would undermine veneration of the government, compromise the quality of deliberation, and encourage presidential demagoguery. In this course, we examine these shifting views of presidential leadership as presidents have increasingly taken over the role of definers of the national interest. After an initial examination of the founders' views and the evolution of the presidency, we will examine the role of presidential rhetoric in World War I, the global Depression of the 1930s and World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam War, varied conflicts of the 1990s, and into the War on Terrorism. In the process, we will reconsider the founders' critique and its implications for America's response in the War on Terrorism.
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