History 38.9
Grand Strategy
Course Presentations
Requirements/Assignments:
September 27: Each group should construct a
source base that will structure their presentation. Due in class by 9/27:
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discussion of how the group will use the
argument of at least two books from the readings section
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identification of at least two historical
case studies to be used in presentation
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identification of a group of articles on
the presentation topic from the
links section of the course website
Groups
November 22:
THE MIDDLE EAST:
| Evelyn Haas |
Anthony Matterelliano |
Simon Tong |
Michael Wynn |
ASIA:
| Evan Goldwyn |
Juan Britos |
Roger Gallo |
Christina Harned |
Nick Maresca |
November 29:
TRADE:
| Yehuda Katz |
Renee Lovett |
Nathan Schwartz |
Edward Shannon |
TERRORISM:
| Ruvin Levavi |
Kendell Howard |
Eric Smith |
Elizabeth Sandsmark |
December 6:
WEAPONS:
| Asher Orkaby |
Michael Losardo |
David Grossman |
Lavada Lawton |
ENERGY:
| Brad Appell |
Christina Montenegro |
Anne Fleurimond |
Alexander Cipully |
December 13:
EUROPE:
| Nik Paras |
Paul Esmond |
Dana Bedell |
Neree Henry |
LATIN AMERICA:
| Ryan Sacks |
Joseph Monteserrato |
Dave Hillenbrand |
Adam Hernandez |
Readings
- Paul Bracken, Fire in the East: The Rise of
Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age (Harper Collins, 1999)
- Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit,
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies (Penguin, 2004)
- Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations:
Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
- Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of
America's Empire (Penguin, 2004)
- David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace:
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
(Henry Holt, 1989)
- William Hitchcock, The Struggle for Europe:
The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-2002 (Doubleday, 2002)
- Samuel Huntington, The Clash of
Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order (Simon and Schuster,
1998)
- Robert Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy:
Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (Knopf, 2001)
- David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of
Nations (W.W. Norton, 1999)
- John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security, and
the American Experience
- John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment
- Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (Simon and
Schuster, 1994)
- Walter Russell Mead, Power, Terror, Peace,
and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (Knopf, 2004)
- Ernest May, "Lessons" of the Past: How Policymakers
Use and Misuse History
- John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great
Power Politics (W.W. Norton, 2001)
- Williamson Murray, The Change in the
European Balance of Power, 1938-1939: The Path to Ruin (Princeton, 1984)
- Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox, and Alvin
Bernstein, eds., The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War
(Cambridge, 1994)
- Joseph Nye, The Paradox of American Power
- Joseph Nye, Soft Power
- Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (W.W.
Norton, 1997)
- Stephen Peter Rosen, Societies and Military
Power: India and Its Armies (Cornell University Press, 1996)
- Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search
for a New Ummah (Columbia University Press, 2004 – AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER)
- Tony Smith, America’s Mission: The United
States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century
(Princeton, 1994)
- Robert Wolfe, ed., Americans as Proconsuls:
United States Military Occupation in Germany and Japan, 1944-1952
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1984)
- Daniel Yergin The Prize: The Epic Quest for
Oil, Money, and Power
- Fareed Zakaria, From Wealth to Power: The
Unusual Origins of America's World Role (Princeton, 1999)
- Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom:
Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (W.W. Norton, 2003)