History 743.2
U.S. Foreign Relations
Mondays at 6.20pm

Readings: Available at Shakespeare Books or on-line, through links below.

• Robert Allison, The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815

• Rachel Bronson, Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia

• Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

• Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy

• John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

• Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address

• Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

• Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire, Revised Edition 

• Thomas Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

• Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898

• Fred Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam

• Eric Paul Roorda, The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945

• Emily Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930

Requirements:

• Research Paper: 50%
• Participation: 25%
• Document-Based Presentation (for one week): 13%
• Study Questions (for one book): 12%

Schedule:

September 6: Introduction

September 11: Revolutionary Foundations

• Gilbert, To the Farewell Address

September 18: The New Nation and Foreign Policy

• Allison, The Crescent Obscured

study questions

September 25: Continental Expansion

• Hietala, Manifest Design

study questions

Tuesday, October 3: Gilded Age Foreign Policy

• LaFeber, The New Empire

study questions

October 9: No classes--Columbus Day

October 16: Progressivism and American Foreign Policy

• Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World

study questions (Amy, Kristen)

October 23: Wilson

• Knock, To End All Wars

study questions (Stacy, Donald)

October 30:  FDR

• Roorda, The Dictator Next Door

study questions (Mark, Natalya)

November 6: Cold War Overview

• Gaddis, The Cold War

study questions (Ray, John)

Christine: Von Eschen book

November 13: The United States and the Cuban Revolution

• Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions

study questions (Jane, Yaffa)

November 20:  Vietnam

• Logevall, Choosing War

study questions (Nick M., Ray)

November 27: The Saudi Alliance

• Bronson, Thicker than Oil

study questions (Eric, Jeffrey)

December 4: The Run-Up to 9/11

• Coll, Ghost Wars

study questions (N. Paras)

December 11: Contemporary Foreign Policy Debates

• Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads

study questions (Sam, Michael)