Issues in Foreign Policy after 911: Course Information

911 Forum/Course: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Course Requirements: Spring 2006

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Attend all lectures (or make prior arrangements to view them)
Read two books: Robert Jervis's American Foreign Policy in a New Era and Walter Russell Mead's Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World. Students are expected to follow the news on foreign policy by reading online The New York Times and/or The Washington Post
Read the interviews at this website: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/911/courses/interviews.html.
Exams: There will be a midterm and a final exam

This course is graded pass-fail. To pass, you must take the mid term and the final. You must answer at least 70% of the final exam questions and at least 70% the mid term questions correctly.

The final exam will held May 8, 2005; 5:00 p.m. in 145 Dwinelle. See the Final Exam study questions (without answers) or download the Final Exam questions in PDF.

Class Date/Title	Assignment
January 23, 2006: Introduction to the Course	Smelser interview Mead interview (2003)
January 30, 2006: Terrorism: The Problem of Nuclear Weapons	Mead: Introduction and Chapter 1 Arquilla interview
February 6, 2006: Terrorism: Preparing for the Next Attack	Mead: Chapters 2 and 3 Chua interview Coll interview
February 16, 2006: U.S. - Africa Relations	Mead: Chapters 4 and 5 Lyman interview
February 16, 2006: Terrorism: Suicide Terrorism	Mead: Chapters 5 and 6
February 20, 2006: President's Day holiday, no class
February 27, 2006: Homeland Security	Mead: Chapters 7 and 8 James Mann interview Fallows interview (2005)
March 6, 2006: Foreign Policy and the Press	Constable interview
March 13, 2006: Midterm
March 16, 2006: War Today and Yesterday	Jervis: pp. 1 - 58 Hanson interview Scales interview Chalmers Johnson interview
March 20, 2006: Global Warming	King interview Jervis interview
March 21, 2006: Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
March 27, 2006: Spring Recess, no class
April 3, 2006: The U.S. and Iran	Jervis: pp. 59 - 102 Cole interview
April 10, 2006: Annual Review of the Presidency	Jervis: pp. 103 - 138 Mahbubani interview
April 17, 2006: Global Health Issues
April 24, 2006: U.S. Policy in Perspective	Walt interview
May 1, 2006: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism	Lustick interview
May 8, 2006: Final Exam