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Suggested for Student Purchase (1 items)

US foreign policy - Cox, Michael, Stokes, Doug, c2012Book | Suggested for student purchase

Core Texts (3 items)

American foreign policy: the dynamics of choice in the 21st century - Bruce W. Jentleson,2000

Book | Core (Must Read)

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, c2013Book | Core (Must Read)

American foreign policy since the Vietnam War: the search for consensus from RichardNixon to George W. Bush - Richard A. Melanson, c2005

Book | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Reading (5 items)

New directions in US foreign policy - Parmar, Inderjeet, Miller, Linda B., Ledwidge, Mark,Dawsonera, 2009

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

World out of balance: international relations and the challenge of American primacy -Brooks, Stephen G., Wohlforth, William Curti, Dawsonera, 2008

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The peace of illusions: American grand strategy from 1940 to the present - Layne,Christopher, 2006

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Liberal leviathan: the origins, crisis, and transformation of the American world order -Ikenberry, G. John, c2011

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Washington rules: America's path to permanent war - Bacevich, Andrew J., 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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Background (22 items)

The making of US foreign policy - John Dumbrell, David M. Barrett, 1990Book | Background (Could Read)

American foreign policy: Carter to Clinton - John Dumbrell, 1997Book | Background (Could Read)

Governing America: the politics of a divided democracy - Robert Singh, 2003Chapter | Background (Could Read) | John Dumbrell 'Foreign Policy'

Clinton's Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000 - John Dumbrell, 2010Book | Background (Could Read)

Rethinking the Vietnam War - John Dumbrell, 2012Book | Background (Could Read)

The politics of United States foreign policy - Jerel A. Rosati, James M. Scott, 2014Book | Background (Could Read)

American foreign policy: pattern and process - Eugene R. Wittkopf, Charles W. Kegley,James M. Scott, Charles W. Kegley, c2003

Book | Background (Could Read)

A paradigm for the new world order: a schools-of-thought analysis of American foreignpolicy in the post-cold war era - John C. Hulsman, 1997

Book | Background (Could Read)

From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776 - George C. Herring, 2011Book | Background (Could Read)

American Foreign Policy - Glenn P Hastedt, 2013Book | Background (Could Read)

American foreign relations: a history, V.2: Since 1895 - Thomas G. Paterson, J. GarryClifford, Kenneth J. Hagan, Thomas G. Paterson, 1995

Book | Background (Could Read)

Strategies of containment: a critical appraisal of American national security policy duringthe Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis, Dawsonera, 2005

Book | Background (Could Read)

America's longest war: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 - George C. Herring,1996

Book | Background (Could Read)

American politics and society - David H. McKay, 2013Chapter | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 20 'The American World Role'

America and a changed world: a question of leadership - Robin Niblett, 2010Book | Background (Could Read)

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Of paradise and power: America and Europe in the new world order - Robert Kagan, 2003Book | Background (Could Read)

The world America made - Robert Kagan, 2012Book | Background (Could Read)

Dangerous nation: America and the world, 1600-1898 - Robert Kagan, 2006Book | Background (Could Read)

Strategic vision: America and the crisis of global power - Zbigniew Brzezinski, c2012Book | Background (Could Read)

Vietnam, the necessary war: a reinterpretation of America's most disastrous militaryconflict - Michael Lind, 1999

Book | Background (Could Read)

Colossus: the rise and fall of America's empire - Niall Ferguson, 2004Book | Background (Could Read)

Assessing the George W. Bush presidency: a tale of two terms - Andrew Wroe, Jon Herbert,Dawsonera, c2009

Book | Background (Could Read) | Especially Chapters 6-9

Websites (11 items)

Council on Foreign RelationsWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

Foreign AffairsWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

Foreign Policy AssociationWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

International Affairs Think Tank | Chatham HouseWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

U.S. Department of State | Home PageWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

International Affairs Think Tank | Chatham HouseWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

The German Marshall Fund of the United States | Strengthening Transatlantic CooperationWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact. | Brookings InstitutionWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

Center for a New American Security

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Website | Recommended (Should Read)

Atlantic CouncilWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

Wilson Center | Independent Research, Open Dialogue & Actionable IdeasWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)

WEEK ONE – Introducing the module and historical overview (29 items)

Readings (29 items)

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapters: 6 & 7

Reconstructing consensus: American foreign policy since the Vietnam War - Richard A.Melanson, 1991

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 4

American foreign policy: Carter to Clinton - John Dumbrell, 1997Book | Recommended (Should Read)

On Reagan : the man & his presidency - Ronnie Dugger, 1983Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Reagan at Reykjavik: forty-eight hours that ended the Cold War - Kenneth L. Adelman,2014

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Gambling with History - Laurence I Barrett, 1983Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Reagan and Gorbachev: how the Cold War ended - Jack F. Matlock, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Reconstructing consensus: American foreign policy since the Vietnam War - Richard A.Melanson, 1991

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Dutch: a memoir of Ronald Reagan - Edmund Morris, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Not condemned to repetition: the United States and Nicaragua - Robert A. Pastor, RobertA. Pastor, 2002

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The rebellion of Ronald Reagan: a history of the end of the Cold War - Jim Mann, 2010Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The rebellion of Ronald Reagan: a history of the end of the Cold War - Jim Mann, 2010

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Book | Recommended (Should Read)

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 5

American foreign policy since the Vietnam War: the search for consensus from RichardNixon to George W. Bush - Richard A. Melanson, c2005

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapters: 2 & 3

American foreign policy: Carter to Clinton - John Dumbrell, 1997Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Nixon: a life - Jonathan Aitken, 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Strategies of containment: a critical appraisal of postwar American national security policy- John Lewis Gaddis, 1982

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Superpower detente: a reappraisal - Mike Bowker, Phil Williams, Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs, 1988

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis, 2007Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Human rights: Soviet theory and practice: Helsinki and international law - Ivo Lapenna,1977

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Power and protest: global revolution and the rise of detente - Jeremi Suri, 2003Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Dealing with the devil: East Germany,detente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 - M. E. Sarotte, c2001

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The limits ofdetente: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-1973 - CraigDaigle, ebrary, Inc, 2012

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Kissinger, Ford, and Congress: The Very Bitter End in Vietnam - T. Christopher Jespersen,2002-08

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The Carter years: toward a new global order - Richard C. Thornton, c2007

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Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Crisis: the last year of the Carter presidency - Hamilton Jordan, 1982Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The past has another pattern: memoirs - G W. Ball, 1982Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Hard choices: critical years in America's foreign policy - Cyrus R. Vance, 1983Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Detente and confrontation: American-Soviet relations from Nixon to Reagan - Raymond L.Garthoff, Brookings Institution, 1985

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

WEEK TWO – Tools, Actors and Theories of Foreign Policy (24 items)

Core Reading (3 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, 2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 1: Theories of US foreign policy

Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases - 2016Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter by: Walter Carlsnaes, ‘Actors, Structures and foreign

policy analysis’

Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases - 2016Book | Core (Must Read) | Read a chapter of your choice from Section 1

Background Reading (21 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, c2012Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 7 & 10

American foreign policy: the dynamics of choice in the 21st century - Bruce W. Jentleson,2014

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 2 & 3

For the president's eyes only: secret intelligence and the American presidency fromWashington to Bush - Christopher M. Andrew, 1995

Book | Background (Could Read)

The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power -Kim Ghattas, 2014

Book | Background (Could Read)

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Success and failure in limited war: information and strategy in the Korean, Vietnam,Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars - Spencer D. Bakich, 2014

Book | Background (Could Read)

The CIA and American democracy - Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, c2003Book | Background (Could Read)

Presidents' secret wars: CIA and Pentagon covert operations from World War II through thePersian Gulf - John Prados, 1996

Book | Background (Could Read)

New challenges for the American presidency - Philip Davies, George C. Edwards, c2004Book | Background (Could Read) | John Dumbrell 'The Bush Doctrine'

Presidential war power - Louis Fisher, c2004Book | Background (Could Read)

Deciding on War Against Iraq: Institutional Failures. - Fisher, Louis, 2003Article | Background (Could Read)

The impact of public opinion on U.S. foreign policy since Vietnam: constraining thecolossus - Richard Sobel, 2001

Book | Background (Could Read)

God willing?: Political fundamentalism in the White House, the 'war on terror' and theechoing press - David Scott Domke, 2004

Book | Background (Could Read)

The domestic sources of American foreign policy: insights and evidence - James M.McCormick, c2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy - John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt, 2006-09Article | Background (Could Read)

The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy - John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt, 2007Book | Background (Could Read)

Imperial brotherhood: gender and the making of Cold War foreign policy - Robert D. Dean,2003

Book | Background (Could Read)

Ideology and U.S. foreign policy - Michael H. Hunt, 1988, c1987Book | Background (Could Read)

Writing the war on terrorism: language, politics and counter-terrorism - Richard Jackson,2005

Book | Background (Could Read)

Cold War fantasies: film, fiction, and foreign policy - Ronnie D. Lipschutz, c2001Book | Background (Could Read)

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The social construction of the Korean War: conflict and its possibilities - Jennifer Milliken,2001

Book | Background (Could Read)

Constructing national interests: the United States and the Cuban missile crisis - Weldes,Jutta, 1999

Book | Background (Could Read)

WEEK THREE – US foreign policy myths and traditions (31 items)

Core Reading (3 items)

US foreign policy - Cox, Michael, Stokes, Doug, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapters: 2 & 11

American foreign policy: the dynamics of choice in the 21st century - Bruce W. Jentleson,2014

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 4

Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases - 2016Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter by: Yuen Foon Khong, ‘Neoconservatism and the

domestic sources of American foreign policy: the role of ideas in Operation Iraqi Freedom’

Background Reading (28 items)

American foreign policy and process - James M. McCormick, 2014Book | Background (Could Read)

Conservative internationalism: armed diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, andReagan - Henry R. Nau, ebrary, Inc, 2013

Book | Background (Could Read)

Liberal world orders - 2013Book | Background (Could Read)

American exceptionalism: a double-edged sword - Seymour Martin Lipset, 1996Book | Background (Could Read)

Varg Paul A. : Foreign Policies of Founding Fathers - Paul A Varg, 1970Book | Background (Could Read)

Manifest destiny: American expansionism and the empire of right - Anders Stephanson,1995

Book | Background (Could Read)

The American age: United States foreign policy at home and abroad - Walter LaFeber,c1994

Book | Background (Could Read)

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At home abroad: identity and power in American foreign policy - Henry R. Nau, 2002Book | Background (Could Read)

The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy. - Mead, Walter Russell1,2, 2011Article | Background (Could Read)

Special providence: American foreign policy and how it changed the world - Walter RussellMead, 2002

Book | Background (Could Read)

America right or wrong: an anatomy of American nationalism - Anatol Lieven, 2012Book | Background (Could Read)

The liberal tradition in America: an interpretation of American political thought since theRevolution - Louis Hartz, 1955

Book | Background (Could Read)

Bounding power: republican security theory from the polis to the global village - Daniel H.Deudney, 2009

Book | Background (Could Read)

9/11 and the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy - Melvyn P. Leffler, 2003Article | Background (Could Read)

Ideology and U.S. foreign policy - Michael H. Hunt, 1988, c1987Book | Background (Could Read)

Is America different?: a new look at American exceptionalism - Byron E. Shafer, 1991Book | Background (Could Read)

Explaining the history of American foreign relations - Michael J. Hogan, Thomas G. Paterson, 1991

Book | Background (Could Read)

The American age: United States foreign policy at home and abroad 1750 to the present -Walter LaFeber, 1994

Book | Background (Could Read)

Worlds in collision: terror and the future of global order - Ken Booth, Timothy Dunne, 2002Book | Background (Could Read)

Of paradise and power: America and Europe in the new world order - Robert Kagan, 2003Book | Background (Could Read)

Beyond the West: Terrors in Transatlantia - M. Cox, 2005-06-01Article | Background (Could Read)

The new mandarins of American power: the Bush administration's plans for the world -Alex Callinicos, 2003

Book | Background (Could Read)

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The war on terror and the American 'empire' after the Cold War - 2006Book | Background (Could Read)

America alone: the neo-conservatives and the global order - Stefan A. Halper, JonathanClarke, 2004

Book | Background (Could Read)

Plan of attack - Bob Woodward, 2004Book | Background (Could Read)

American Primacy in Perspective. - Brooks, Stephen G.1Wohlforth, William C.2, 2002Article | Background (Could Read)

The American Campaign for Global Sovereignty - Peter Gowan, Peter Gowan, 2009-03-19Article | Background (Could Read)

The war on terror and the American 'empire' after the Cold War - 2006Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Gowan, P, ‘The Bush turn and the drive

for primacy’

WEEK FOUR: Grand strategies and policy doctrines in US foreign policy(34 items)

Core Reading (4 items)

THE SOURCES OF SOVIET CONDUCT. - 1947Article | Core (Must Read)

US foreign policy - Cox, Michael, Stokes, Doug, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 3 & Chapter 4

Liberal Internationalism 3.0: America and the Dilemmas of Liberal World Order - G. JohnIkenberry, 2009-3

Article | Core (Must Read)

President Obama's Interview With Jeffrey Goldberg on Syria and Foreign Policy - TheAtlantic

Webpage | Core (Must Read)

Background Reading (30 items)

American foreign policy: the dynamics of choice in the 21st century - Bruce W. Jentleson,2014

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 5

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, c2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 3

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American democracy promotion: impulses, strategies, and impacts - Michael Cox, G. JohnIkenberry, Takashi Inoguchi, Oxford University Press, 2000

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Ikenberry, G. John. ‘America’s liberalgrand strategy: Democracy and national security in the post-war era’

Present at the creation: my years in the State Department - D. Acheson, 1970Book | Background (Could Read)

Rise to globalism: American foreign policy since 1938 - Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas G.Brinkley, 1997

Book | Background (Could Read)

The United States and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1947 - John Lewis Gaddis,American Council of Learned Societies, c2000

Book | Background (Could Read)

The United States and the end of the cold war: implications, reconsiderations, provocations- John Lewis Gaddis, 1992

Book | Background (Could Read)

From Yalta to Vietnam: American foreign policy in the cold war - David Horowitz, 1969Book | Background (Could Read)

The politics of war: the world and United States foreign policy, 1943-1945 - G. Kolko, 1968Book | Background (Could Read)

The peace of illusions: American grand strategy from 1940 to the present - ChristopherLayne, 2006

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters 2, 3 & 4

Origins of the Cold War: an international history - Melvyn P. Leffler, David S. Painter, 1994Book | Background (Could Read)

The New Left and the origins of the Cold War - Robert James Maddox, 1973Book | Background (Could Read)

American Cold War strategy: interpreting NSC 68 - Ernest R. May, National Security Council(U.S.), c1993

Book | Background (Could Read)

Economic security and the origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950 - R A. Pollard, 1985Book | Background (Could Read)

From wealth to power: the unusual origins of America's world role - Fareed Zakaria, 1998Book | Background (Could Read)

`Revising postrevisionism,' or, the poverty of theory in diplomatic history. - Cummings,Bruce

Article | Background (Could Read)

The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War - JOHN LEWIS

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GADDIS, 1983-07Article | Background (Could Read)

Liberal order and imperial ambition: essays on American power and world politics - G. JohnIkenberry, 2006

Chapter | Background (Could Read) | Ikenberry 'Rethinking the Origins of AmericanHegemony'

After victory: institutions, strategic restraint, and the rebuilding of order after major wars -G. John Ikenberry, 2001

Book | Background (Could Read)

Liberal leviathan: the origins, crisis, and transformation of the American World Order - G.John Ikenberry, 2011

Book | Background (Could Read)

World order: reflections on the character of nations and the course of history - HenryKissinger, 2014

Book | Background (Could Read)

The world America made - Robert Kagan, 2012Book | Background (Could Read)

A Grand Strategy of Transformation - John Lewis Gaddis, 2002-11Article | Background (Could Read)

Five Pillars of American Grand Strategy - Paul D. Miller, 2012-11Article | Background (Could Read)

The Grand Strategy of the United States - R D Hooker Jr, 2015Book | Background (Could Read)

The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War,1945-48 - Melvyn P. Leffler, 1984

Article | Background (Could Read)

Empire by Invitation? The United States and Western Europe, 1945-1952 - Geir Lundestad,1986

Article | Background (Could Read)

ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR. - Schlesinger Jr., ArthurArticle | Background (Could Read)

Achilles’ deal: Dollar decline and US grand strategy after the crisis - Doug Stokes,2014-09-03

Article | Background (Could Read)

Restraint: a new foundation for U.S. grand strategy - Barry Posen, 2015Book | Background (Could Read)

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WEEK FIVE: Reading Week (no lectures or seminars this week)

WEEK SIX: The Question of Decline - Power and order in a changingworld (38 items)

Core Reading (2 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapters: 22 & 23

The Waning of U.S. Hegemony—Myth or Reality? A Review Essay - Christopher Layne,2009-07

Article | Core (Must Read)

Background Reading (36 items)

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 13 & 14

Liberal world orders - 2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Adler, Emanuel, ‘Resillient Liberal

International Practices’

Power, order, and change in world politics - G. John Ikenberry, 2014Book | Background (Could Read)

Obama and China's rise: an insider's account of America's Asia strategy - Jeffrey A. Bader,c2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

Superpower: three choices for America's role in the world - Ian Bremmer, 2016Book | Background (Could Read)

Collapsing Order, Reluctant Guardians - Munich Security ConferenceDocument | Background (Could Read)

The world America made - Robert Kagan, 2012Book | Background (Could Read)

Allure of Normalcy: What America Still Owes the World | New RepublicWebpage | Background (Could Read)

New Report: NATO Should Adapt Geographic Division of Labor, Work with China inMediterranean | Transatlantic Academy

Webpage | Background (Could Read)

The coming multi-order world - Trine Flockhart, 2016-01-02Article | Background (Could Read)

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Still ours to lead: America, rising powers, and the tension between rivalry and restraint -Bruce D. Jones, 2014

Book | Background (Could Read)

The end of American world order - Amitav Acharya, 2014Book | Background (Could Read)

The post-American world: release 2.0 - Fareed Zakaria, 2012Book | Background (Could Read)

No one's world: the West, the rising rest, and the coming global turn - Charles Kupchan,c2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

The limits of power: the end of American exceptionalism - Andrew J. Bacevich, 2009Book | Background (Could Read)

America's global advantage: US hegemony and international cooperation - Carla Norrlof,2010

Book | Background (Could Read)

The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of U.S. Primacy. -Kupchan, Charles A.1,2, 2003

Article | Background (Could Read)

Dollar primacy and American power: What's at stake? - Jonathan Kirshner, 2008-07-31Article | Background (Could Read)

The Inevitable Superpower. - Subramanian, Arvind1,2, 2011Article | Background (Could Read)

Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment - Paul K.MacDonald, Joseph M. Parent, 2011-04

Article | Background (Could Read)

Follies of power: America's unipolar fantasy - David P. Calleo, 2009Book | Background (Could Read)

Zero-sum world: politics, power and prosperity after the Crash - Gideon Rachman, 2010Book | Background (Could Read)

A Global Power Shift in the Making. - Hoge, James F.1, 2004Article | Background (Could Read)

This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana - Christopher Layne,2012-03

Article | Background (Could Read)

The unipolar exit: beyond the - Christopher Layne, 2011-06Article | Background (Could Read)

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Taming American power: the global response to U.S. primacy - Stephen M. Walt, 2006Book | Background (Could Read)

America’s Middle East grand strategy after Iraq: the moment for offshore balancing hasarrived - CHRISTOPHER LAYNE, 2009-1

Article | Background (Could Read)

American empire: a debate - Christopher Layne, Bradley A. Thayer, ebrary, Inc, c2007Book | Background (Could Read)

When China rules the world: the end of the Western world and the birth of a new globalorder - Martin Jacques, 2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

Empire Falls | The National Interest - Robert PapeWebpage | Background (Could Read)

The future of power - Joseph S. Nye, c2011Book | Background (Could Read)

China's Century? Why America's Edge Will Endure - Michael Beckley, 2012-01Article | Background (Could Read)

Retreat and its consequences: American foreign policy and the problem of world order -Robert J. Lieber, 2016

Book | Background (Could Read)

Restraint: a new foundation for U.S. grand strategy - Barry Posen, 2014Book | Background (Could Read)

Barack Obama's post-American foreign policy: the limits of engagement - Robert Singh,2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

The Unipolar Moment - Krauthammer, C., 1990Article | Background (Could Read)

WEEK Seven: Hard Power – War and military intervention (40 items)

Core Reading (2 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 8

The Delicate Balance of Terror | RANDWebpage | Core (Must Read)

Background Reading (38 items)

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Success and failure in limited war: information and strategy in the Korean, Vietnam,Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars - Spencer D. Bakich, 2014

Book | Background (Could Read)

Duty: memoirs of a secretary at war - Robert Michael Gates, 2015Book | Background (Could Read)

Confronting revolution: security through diplomacy in Central America - Morris J.Blachman, William M. LeoGrande, Kenneth Evan Sharpe, 1986

Book | Background (Could Read)

Liberal world orders - 2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Dunne, T, ‘Internationalism and

Interventionism’

Bending history: Barack Obama's foreign policy - Martin Indyk, Kenneth Lieberthal, MichaelE. O'Hanlon, 2013

Book | Background (Could Read)

Contemporary military strategy and the Global War on Terror: US and UK Armed Forces inAfghanistan and Iraq 2001-2012 - Alastair Finlan, 2014

Book | Background (Could Read)

The transformation of strategic affairs - Lawrence Freedman, International Institute forStrategic Studies, 2006

Book | Background (Could Read)

War - Lawrence Freedman, 1994Book | Background (Could Read)

Deterrence - Lawrence Freedman, 2004.repr. 2008Book | Background (Could Read)

The evolution of nuclear strategy - Lawrence Freedman, 2003Book | Background (Could Read)

The Entangling Alliance - R OsgoodBook | Background (Could Read)

NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE. - Bundy, McGeorgeKennan, GeorgeF.McNamara, Robert S.Smith, Gerard

Article | Background (Could Read)

Nuclear Strategy: The Case for a Theory of Victory - Colin S. Gray, 1979-22Article | Background (Could Read)

Foreign Affairs. Winter - Hoffmann, Stanley1Journal | Background (Could Read)

THE MILITARY ROLE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: PERCEPTIONS AND MISPERCEPTIONS. -McNamara, Robert S., 1983

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Article | Background (Could Read)

The age of war: the United States confronts the world - Gabriel Kolko, 2006Book | Background (Could Read)

The Vietnam War: a concise international history - Mark Atwood Lawrence, 2010Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 6 & 7

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 4

The Logic of Zero. - Daalder, Ivo1Lodal, Jan, 2008Article | Background (Could Read)

The culture of national security: norms and identity in world politics - Peter J. Katzenstein,1996

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Price, R. and N. Tannenwald, ‘Norms andDeterrence: The Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Taboo’

The spread of nuclear weapons: more may be better - Kenneth N. Waltz, 1981Book | Background (Could Read)

The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relations - 2014Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Howlett, D, ‘Nuclear Proliferation’

Security studies: an introduction - Paul Williams, 2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Pal Singh Sidhu, W. ‘Nuclear Proliferation’

The Essential Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons: Stability in the Postwar World - John Mueller, 2011/10/05

Article | Background (Could Read)

Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace - NoamChomsky, 2015

Book | Background (Could Read)

Vietnam: explaining America's lost war - Gary R. Hess, 2015Book | Background (Could Read)

Confronting the Third World: United States foreign policy, 1945-1980 - Gabriel Kolko, 1988Book | Background (Could Read)

Supplying repression: U.S. support for authoritarian regimes abroad - Michael T. Klare,Cynthia Arnson, Delia Miller, Daniel Volman, 1981

Book | Background (Could Read)

Low intensity warfare: counterinsurgency, proinsurgency, and antiterrorism in the eighties- Michael T Klare, Peter Kornbluh, c1988

Book | Background (Could Read)

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Inevitable revolutions: the United States in Central America - Walter LaFeber, c1993Book | Background (Could Read)

The American connection: Vol.1: State terror and popular resistance in El Salvador -Michael McClintock, 1985

Book | Background (Could Read)

Instruments of statecraft: U.S. guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency, and counter-terrorism,1940-1990 - Michael McClintock, c1992

Book | Background (Could Read)

Rolling back revolution: the emergence of low intensity conflict - Ivan Molloy, 2001Book | Background (Could Read)

The Vietnam wars - Kevin Ruane, 2000Book | Background (Could Read)

Washington's war on Nicaragua - Holly Sklar, 1988Book | Background (Could Read)

America's other war: terrorizing Colombia - Doug Stokes, 2005Book | Background (Could Read)

Into the quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the escalation of the Vietnam War - BrianVanDeMark, 1995

Book | Background (Could Read)

America in Vietnam: a documentary history - William Appleman Williams, 1989Book | Background (Could Read)

WEEK Eight: Negotiated power – Diplomacy, alliances and arms control (43 items)

Core Reading (3 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 12

Beyond the West: Terrors in Transatlantia - M. Cox, 2005-06-01Article | Core (Must Read)

Towards a strong NATO narrative: From a ‘practice of talking’ to a ‘practice of doing’ -Trine Flockhart, 2012-1

Article | Core (Must Read)

Background Reading (40 items)

American foreign policy: Carter to Clinton - John Dumbrell, 1997

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Book | Background (Could Read)

Nixon, a life - Jonathan Aitken, 1993Book | Background (Could Read)

Strategies of containment: a critical appraisal of postwar American national security policy- John Lewis Gaddis, 1982

Book | Background (Could Read)

Superpower detente: a reappraisal - Mike Bowker, Phil Williams, Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs, 1988

Book | Background (Could Read)

The Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis, 2007Book | Background (Could Read)

Human rights: Soviet theory and practice: Helsinki and international law - Ivo Lapenna,1977

Book | Background (Could Read)

Power and protest: global revolution and the rise of detente - Jeremi Suri, 2003Book | Background (Could Read)

Dealing with the devil: East Germany,detente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 - M. E. Sarotte, 2001

Book | Background (Could Read)

The limits ofdetente: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-1973 - CraigDaigle, 2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

Kissinger, Ford, and Congress: The Very Bitter End in Vietnam - T. Christopher Jespersen,2002-08

Article | Background (Could Read)

The Carter years: toward a new global order - Richard C. Thornton, c2007Book | Background (Could Read)

Crisis: the last year of the Carter presidency - Hamilton Jordan, 1982Book | Background (Could Read)

The past has another pattern: memoirs - G W. Ball, 1982Book | Background (Could Read)

Hard choices: critical years in America's foreign policy - Cyrus R. Vance, 1983Book | Background (Could Read)

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American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 6 & 7

American foreign policy since the Vietnam War: the search for consensus from RichardNixon to George W. Bush - Richard A. Melanson, c2005

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 4

On Reagan : the man & his presidency - Ronnie Dugger, 1983Book | Background (Could Read)

Reagan at Reykjavik: forty-eight hours that ended the Cold War - Kenneth L. Adelman,2014

Book | Background (Could Read)

Gambling with History - Laurence I Barrett, 1983Book | Background (Could Read)

Reagan and Gorbachev: how the Cold War ended - Jack F. Matlock, 2004Book | Background (Could Read)

Reconstructing consensus: American foreign policy since the Vietnam War - Richard A.Melanson, 1991

Book | Background (Could Read)

Dutch: a memoir of Ronald Reagan - Edmund Morris, 1999Book | Background (Could Read)

Condemned to repetition: the United States and Nicaragua : with a new epilogue - RobertA. Pastor, 1988

Book | Background (Could Read)

The rebellion of Ronald Reagan: a history of the end of the Cold War - Jim Mann, 2010Book | Background (Could Read)

Dictatorships & Double Standards - J KirkpatrickWebpage | Background (Could Read)

Explaining U.S. relations with the Third World. - Painter, David S.Article | Background (Could Read)

Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics - 2015Book | Background (Could Read)

The Atlantic alliance under stress: US-European relations after Iraq - David M. Andrews,2005

Book | Background (Could Read)

Why NATO endures - Wallace J. Thies, 2009Book | Background (Could Read)

The limits of partnership: U.S.-Russian relations in the twenty-first century - Angela Stent,

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2014Book | Background (Could Read)

Strategic reassurance and resolve: U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century - JamesSteinberg, Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2015

Book | Background (Could Read)

The choice: global domination or global leadership - Zbigniew Brzezinski, 2004Book | Background (Could Read)

Diplomacy - Henry A. Kissinger, 1994Book | Background (Could Read)

America unbound: the Bush revolution in foreign policy - Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay,2005

Book | Background (Could Read)

America between the wars: from 11/9 to 9/11 : the misunderstood years between the fallof the Berlin Wall and the start of the War on Terror - Derek H. Chollet, James M. Goldgeier,ebrary, Inc, c2008

Book | Background (Could Read)

Empire without tears: America's foreign relations, 1921-1933 - Warren I. Cohen, 1987Book | Background (Could Read)

The politics of diplomacy: revolution, war, and peace, 1989-1992 - James Addison Baker,Thomas M. DeFrank, c1995

Book | Background (Could Read)

NATO's nuclear dilemmas - David N Schwartz, c1983Book | Background (Could Read)

NATO's nuclear addiction – 12 steps to ‘kick the habit’ - Trine Flockhart, 2013-09Article | Background (Could Read)

The Spread of Security Communities: Communities of Practice, Self-Restraint, and NATO'sPost--Cold War Transformation - E. Adler, 2008-06-01

Article | Background (Could Read)

WEEK NINE: Soft power – Friendships, culture and development (38items)

Core Reading (3 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapters: 5 & 6

Soft Power - Joseph S. Nye, 1990-23Article | Core (Must Read)

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The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion. - Carothers, Thomas, 2006Article | Core (Must Read)

Background Reading (35 items)

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 7 & 8

American foreign policy since the Vietnam War: the search for consensus from RichardNixon to George W. Bush - Richard A. Melanson, c2005

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 5 & 6

Democracy, liberalism, and war: rethinking the democratic peace debate - Tarak Barkawi,Mark Laffey, 2001

Book | Background (Could Read)

America between the wars: from 11/9 to 9/11 : the misunderstood years between the fallof the Berlin Wall and the start of the War on Terror - Derek H. Chollet, James M. Goldgeier,ebrary, Inc, c2008

Book | Background (Could Read)

US foreign policy after the Cold War: global hegemon or reluctant sheriff? - FraserCameron, ebrary, Inc, 2005

Book | Background (Could Read)

US foreign policy after the Cold War: superpower without a mission? - Michael Cox, RoyalInstitute of International Affairs, 1995

Book | Background (Could Read)

American democracy promotion: impulses, strategies, and impacts - Michael Cox, G. JohnIkenberry, Takashi Inoguchi, Oxford University Press, 2000

Book | Background (Could Read)

The end of history and the last man - Francis Fukuyama, 1992Book | Background (Could Read)

The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500 to2000 - Paul Michael Kennedy, 1988

Book | Background (Could Read)

The vulnerability of empire - Charles Kupchan, 1994Book | Background (Could Read)

The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century - Robert J. Lieber, 2005Book | Background (Could Read)

Exporting democracy: fulfilling America's destiny - Joshua Muravchik, 1992Book | Background (Could Read)

America's other war: terrorizing Colombia - Doug Stokes, 2005

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Book | Background (Could Read)

Whatever Happened to American Decline? International Relations and the New UnitedStates Hegemony - Michael Cox, 2001-11

Article | Background (Could Read)

The Lonely Superpower. - Huntington, Samuel P.1Article | Background (Could Read)

American power and the empire of capitalist democracy - G. John Ikenberry, 2001-12Article | Background (Could Read)

The benevolent empire. - Kagan, RobertArticle | Background (Could Read)

After Pax Americana: Benign Power, Regional Integration, and the Sources of a StableMultipolarity - Charles A. Kupchan, 1998-23

Article | Background (Could Read)

The unipolar moment revisited’ - C KrauthammerArticle | Background (Could Read)

Democratic realism: an American foreign policy for a unipolar world - CharlesKrauthammer, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2004

Book | Background (Could Read)

Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy. - Kristol, WilliamKagan, Robert, 1996Article | Background (Could Read)

The Unipolar Illusion: Why New Great Powers Will Rise - Christopher Layne, 1993-21Article | Background (Could Read)

Command of the Commons. - Posen, Barry R.1, 2003Article | Background (Could Read)

Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy - Barry R. Posen, Andrew L. Ross, 1996-24Article | Background (Could Read)

Globalization, the World System, and "Democracy Promotion" in U. S. Foreign Policy -William I. Robinson, 1996

Article | Background (Could Read)

American democracy promotion: impulses, strategies, and impacts - Michael Cox, G. JohnIkenberry, Takashi Inoguchi, Oxford University Press, 2000

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Smith, S., ‘US democracy promotion:critical questions’

Why the end of the Cold War doesn't matter: the US war of terror in Colombia - DougStokes, 2003-10

Article | Background (Could Read)

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The Future of the American Empire. - Strange, SusanArticle | Background (Could Read)

Structural Realism after the Cold War. - Waltz, Kenneth N., 2000Article | Background (Could Read)

The Stability of a Unipolar World - William C. Wohlforth, 1999-07Article | Background (Could Read)

Universal Democracy, Diminished Expectation - A. Burgess, 2001-09Article | Background (Could Read)

Liberal world orders - 2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Hobson, C & Kurki, M, ‘Democracy

Promotion as a Practice of liberal World Order’

The future of power - Joseph S. Nye, c2011Book | Background (Could Read)

Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics - AlexanderWendt, 1992

Article | Background (Could Read)

Friends, There Are No Friends? An Intimate Reframing of the International - F.Berenskoetter, 2007-09-01

Article | Background (Could Read)

WEEK TEN: Economic power – Trade, sanctions and financial regimes (8items)

Core Reading (3 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 18

Achilles’ deal: Dollar decline and US grand strategy after the crisis - Doug Stokes,2014-09-03

Article | Core (Must Read)

Still in the Woods: Gridlock in the IMF and the World Bank Puts Multilateralism at Risk -Jakob Vestergaard, Robert H. Wade, 2015-02

Article | Core (Must Read)

Background Reading (5 items)

Transatlantic triage? European and UK ‘grand strategy’ after the US rebalance to Asia -DOUG STOKES, RICHARD G. WHITMAN, 2013-09

Article | Background (Could Read)

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The Fall and Rise of the West. - Altman, Roger C.1, 2013Article | Background (Could Read)

The global transformation: history, modernity and the making of international relations -Barry Buzan, George Lawson, 2015

Book | Background (Could Read)

The World Bank and the emerging world order - J VestergaardDocument | Background (Could Read)

Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases - 2016Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Mastanduno, M, ‘Economic Statecraft’

WEEK ELEVEN: Covert power – Intelligence, counter terrorism andtargeted killings (43 items)

Core Reading (2 items)

US foreign policy - Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, c2012Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapters: 19 & 20

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapters: 11 & 12

Background Reading (41 items)

Worlds in collision: terror and the future of global order - Ken Booth, Timothy Dunne, 2002Book | Background (Could Read)

Of paradise and power: America and Europe in the new world order - Robert Kagan, 2003Book | Background (Could Read)

Beyond the West: Terrors in Transatlantia - M. Cox, 2005-06-01Article | Background (Could Read)

The new mandarins of American power: the Bush administration's plans for the world -Alex Callinicos, 2003

Book | Background (Could Read)

The war on terror and the American 'empire' after the Cold War - 2006Book | Background (Could Read)

Ghost plane: the true story of the CIA rendition and torture program - Stephen Grey, 2007Book | Background (Could Read)

America alone: the neo-conservatives and the global order - Stefan A. Halper, JonathanClarke, 2004

Book | Background (Could Read)

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The new imperialism - David Harvey, 2005Book | Background (Could Read)

Plan of attack - Bob Woodward, 2004Book | Background (Could Read)

American Primacy in Perspective. - Brooks, Stephen G.1Wohlforth, William C.2, 2002Article | Background (Could Read)

The American Campaign for Global Sovereignty - Peter Gowan, Peter Gowan, 2009-03-19Article | Background (Could Read)

The war on terror and the American 'empire' after the Cold War - 2006Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Gowan, P. ‘The Bush turn and the drive

for primacy’

American foreign policy since World War II. - Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier, ©2013Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 11 & 12

American foreign policy since the Vietnam War: the search for consensus from RichardNixon to George W. Bush - Richard A. Melanson, c2005

Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapters: 7

Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases - 2016Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Schmidt, B, C., ‘The Primacy of National

Security’

The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited - U. Beck, 2002-08-01Article | Background (Could Read)

Surveillance Strategies and Populations at Risk: Biopolitical Governance in Canada'sNational Security Policy - C. Bell, 2006-06-01

Article | Background (Could Read)

Worlds in collision: terror and the future of global order - Ken Booth, Timothy Dunne, 2002Book | Background (Could Read)

Contemporary security and strategy - Craig A. Snyder, 2012Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter by: Boyle, M. ‘Terrorism and Insurgency’

Will the 'global war on terrorism' be the new Cold War? - BARRY BUZAN, 2006-11Article | Background (Could Read)

Singing Our World into Existence: International Relations Theory and September 11.Presidential Address to the International Studies Association, February 27, 2003, Portland,OR - Steve Smith, 2004-09

Article | Background (Could Read)

Culture of Terrorism - Noam Chomsky, 2015Book | Background (Could Read)

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Wars of Terror - Noam Chomsky, 2003-03Article | Background (Could Read)

9-11: was there an alternative? - Noam Chomsky, c2011Book | Background (Could Read)

Terrorism and the politics of response: London in a time of terror - Angharad ClossStephens, Nick Vaughan-Williams, Dawsonera, c2009

Book | Background (Could Read)

Culture, crisis and America's War on Terror - Stuart Croft, 2006Book | Background (Could Read)

Culture, crisis and America's War on Terror - Stuart Croft, 2006Book | Background (Could Read)

Security Dialogue, Special IssueJournal | Background (Could Read)

War, Security and the Liberal State - V. Jabri, 2006-03-01Article | Background (Could Read)

Barack Obama's post-American foreign policy: the limits of engagement - Robert Singh,2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

The Obamians: the struggle inside the White House to redefine American power - Jim Mann, 2012

Book | Background (Could Read)

Pull Back. - Posen, Barry R.1, 2013Article | Background (Could Read)

Why Drones Work. - Byman, Daniel1,2, 2013Article | Background (Could Read)

Why Drones Fail. - Cronin, Audrey Kurth1, 2013Article | Background (Could Read)

Scoring Obama's Foreign Policy. - Indyk, Martin S.1Lieberthal, Kenneth G.2,3O'Hanlon,Michael E.4, 2012

Article | Background (Could Read)

A progressive defense of dronesWebpage | Background (Could Read)

History of U.S. Drones | Understanding EmpireWebpage | Background (Could Read)

Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of US Drone WarfareJournal | Background (Could Read)

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Amitai Etzioni: Obama's New Old Defense StrategyWebpage | Background (Could Read)

David Bell: In Defense of Drones: A Historical ArgumentWebpage | Background (Could Read)

The Impact of US Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan - Patrick B.Johnston, Anoop K. Sarbahi

Article | Background (Could Read)

WEEK TWELVE: Conclusion and revisionNo set reading or study questions for this week as we will concentrate on revision andpractising answering exam questions in the seminars

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