| Week | Topic and Reading |
Aug. 27-August 30 | Days of Infamy |
September 5-7 | Politics of War Paterson/Merrill, 77-126 Schulzinger, 125-145 Question: How would you respond to my daughter’s eighth grade teacher’s characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the 1920s as "isolationist?" |
*September 10-14 | Disunited Nations Paterson/Merrill, 127-84 |
September 17-21 | The National Security State Iriye, entire Question: Did Franklin Roosevelt "want" to go to war with Japan? What motivated the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor? |
Sept.24-Sept.28 | More Bang for the Buck Paterson/Merrill, 185-234 Schulzinger, 201-31 Question: Which was more important to the outcomes at Yalta and Potsdam: Big Three Diplomacy or the Tides of War? |
*October 1-5 | Pay Any Price Paterson/Merrill, 235-365 Question: Compared to Roosevelt's, was Truman's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union illustrative of the dynamic of change or continuity? |
October 8-12 | Bear Any Burden Jensen, entire
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| October 15 | Dissect Documents |
| October 17 | REVIEW |
| October 19 | MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
October 22-26 | Arrogance of Power Schulzinger, 232-258 Paterson/Merrill, 366-459 Question: What if anything was "new" about Eisenhower's "New Look." Was the policy objective containment or liberation? |
Oct. 29-Nov. 2 | Balance of Power Schulzinger, 259-88 Paterson/Merrill, 460-584 Question: John Kennedy's perspective on foreign policy, and that of many of his leading advisors, was immature, uninformed, and reckless. True or False? New Problems on a World Scale Confront the Kennedy Administration, 1961-63 |
*November 5-9 | Limits of Power Greene, entire Question: According to Fowler in The Quiet American, Pyle "was impregnably amoured by his good intentions and his ignorance. . . . He comes in and people have to die for his mistakes." Was Pyle a metaphor for the United States in Vietnam? |
November 12-16 | Swords into Ploughshares Schulzinger, 289-315 Paterson/Merrill, 585-636 Question: As if a Greek tragedy, the drama of the foreign policies of Nixon and Kissinger is the story of potential heroes who suffer from fatal character flaws. Do you agree? |
November 19-21 | Ploughshares Into Swords Schulzinger, 316-333 Paterson/Merrill, 637-706 Question: In the anarchic, dog-eat-dog world of international relations, should the promotion of human rights be a high priority for the makers of U.S. foreign policy? |
| November 22 | Thanksgiving Recess |
| November 26 | PAPERS DUE |
Nov. 26-30 | The Walls Come Tumbling Down Schulzinger, 334-52 Paterson/Merrill, 707-55 Question: Who is more responsible for the end of the Cold War: Reagan? Bush? Gorbachev? |
December 3 | Brave New World? Schulzinger, 352-83
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| December 5 | REVIEW |
| December 10 | FINAL EXAMINATION |
