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U.S. Foreign Policy (G53.2750) - Graduate

The intent of this course is to give students an overview of the dramatic changes in U.S. foreign policy that occurred as the country developed from a small, vulnerable state into a super-power. The factors which led to those change are assessed, and there is special emphasis placed on how policy-makers saw their choices after World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. The final part of the course looks at the foreign challenges the country faces today. The course is taught in seminar fashion, with students making frequent presentations, doing a mid-term exam, and submitting a final research paper.

Political Economy of the Pacific Basin (G53.2774 / G31.2620) - Graduate

This course is designed for students from both the Economics and Politics Departments and provides a framework for evaluating the inter-linkages between the three principal regions of the Pacific Basin: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. The course analyzes trade, investment, technology, and migration patterns and reviews the assorted efforts at regional integration: APEC, ASEAN, ARF, ASEAN + 3, and the East Asian Summit. Frequent student presentations are required as well as a mid-term exam and a final research paper.

Political Economy of North-South Relations (G53.2770 / G31.2610) – Graduate

This course examines the development of international trade and development patterns since the 1973-74 oil embargo. For a brief period in the late 1970s, leaders in the low income countries assumed they could create cartels for their raw material exports and bargain for major changes in the international economic system. This period was then followed by recurring crises: debt defaults the 1980s, the 1997-98 financial crisis in Asia, Russia, and Brazil, and the current global recession. The intent of the course is to give students an analytic basis for understanding the impact of the international system on development options in the low income countries. The course is open to students from both the Economics and Politics Departments.

American Empire? (V53.0796) IR Honors Seminar – Undergraduate

After the disintegration of the USSR, the United States became, by default, the sole superpower. Were the actions of the Clinton Administration, by intervening in Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia, and the Bush Administration, by invading Afghanistan and Iraq, indications that the U.S. had become an imperial power? How should we define an empire? How do American policies today compare to the British, French, Roman and Chinese empires? Students must have a 3.5 GPA to qualify for the course and will write two papers, a mid-term exam, and a make frequent presentations.

The Politics of China and Japan (V53. 0560) - Undergraduate

This course compares the domestic and foreign policies of China and Japan. The intent is to give students an overview of how both countries make their principal choices on such issues as economic, environmental, trade, and national security policies. In addition to the direct interaction between China and Japan, the policies of the two states toward their neighbors in Asia and relations with North America and Europe are considered.

Relevant Sources

American Economic Review

Brookings

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

China Quarterly

DoD: The Military Power of the PRC

Economist Intelligence Unit

Far Eastern Economic Review

Foreign Affairs

IMF: World Economic Outlook

International Negotiation

International Security