V53.0795 Honors International Relations Seminar (Fall 2006)
G53.2770/G31.2610 Political Economy of North-South Relations (Fall 2006)G53.2774 Political Economy of the Pacific Basin (Fall 2007)
V53.0796 IR Honors Seminar: American Empire? (Fall 2007)G53.2750 US Foreign Policy
Most of my graduate courses are joint-listed and include students from both the Politics and Economics Departments. Students from other professional schools at NYU are welcome to enroll as well as long as they have sufficient prior training in economics. The Pacific Basin course is a seminar designed for both MA and PhD students to give them an overview of current economic and political developments in the region, with the principal focus on Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia as two distinct sub-regions.
The U.S. Foreign Policy course is divided into three sections: (a) an historical overview of the principal factors shaping American foreign policy from the Colonial period through World War II, (b) an assessment of the impact of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and (c) and a survey of current foreign policy issues.
The IR field seminar, American Empire?, deals with the current debate about whether U.S. military, economic, and diplomatic assertiveness constitutes an imperial ambition. The course looks at four turning points in American foreign policy (1919, 1945, 1991, and 2001) and assesses the choices made in each period about the extent of U.S. overseas involvement.
Syllabi for these courses can be found in the respective Graduate and Undergraduate web-site listings
