Current Issues in the US Foreign Policy

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Objective

In the light of the determining factors of American political culture, of the analysis models of American foreign policy and of the country’s political system, and following a survey of the major stages of its foreign policy, individual studies will be presented on contemporary issues.

References

Suggested readings to be selected:
a) Fundamental sources
• BAGBY Wesley, America’s International Relations Since World War I
• BURGESS Françoise, Les institutions américaines
• DAVID Charles Philippe et.al., La politique Etrangère des Etats Unis: Fondements, Acteurs, Formulation
• FERGUSON John H., The American System of Government
• HOOK Steven W., U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power
• MELANDRI Pierre, La politique extérieure des Etats Unis de 1945 à nos jours
• MEAD Walter Russell, Special Providence
• SCHULZINGER Robert, U.S. Diplomacy since 1900
• TOINET Marie France, La Présidence Américaine
• WIARDA Howard, American Foreign Policy:Actors and Processes
• WITTKOPF, Eugene R. (ed.) ,The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy:Insights and Evidence

b) On contemporary issues:
• CLINTON Hillary, Hard Choices
• FORSYTHE David P., The United States and Human Rights
• GERGES Fawaz A., America and Political Islam
• HAASS Richard, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Old Order
• KATZENSTEIN Peter J. and KEOHANE Robert O., Anti-Americanisms in World Politics
• KISSINGER Henry, Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
• NYE Joseph S. Jr., The Paradox of American Power
• OBAMA Barack, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

c) Mandatory reading: at least 6 articles published in Foreign Affairs between 2018 and 2021.

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