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Course Requirements: Spring 2004

• Attend all lectures (or make prior arrangements to view them)
• Read two books: John Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power Politics and Walter Russell Mead's Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World
• Read article and watch/read interview assigned each week
• Two book reviews each of no longer than 2 pages, further details will be given out prior to their due dates.
• Exam - 50 multiple-choice questions covering lectures and readings.

Grading

This course is graded pass-fail. To pass both your two book reviews must be satisfactory and you must answer at least 70% of the final exam questions correctly.

Final Exam

The final exam will be held on Thursday, May 20, from 5-8 p.m., in Room 230 Hearst Gymnasium.
See the Notes on the Final Exam and the Exam Study Guide for Spring 2004

STUDY SESSION FOR EXAM: Monday, May 17, 7-9 p.m. at 155 Dwinelle.

Syllabus

January 26, 2004: Introduction to course

Assignment

Niall Ferguson interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Ferguson/ferguson-con0.html

February 2, 2004: The Trouble with Empires

John Arquilla

Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey;
Senior Consultant for the RAND Corporation
Author of Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime and Militancy; In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age; From Troy to Entebbe: Special Operations in Ancient and Modern Times; and Dubious Battles: Aggression, Defeat, and the International System

Watch this lecture via webcast.berkeley: Arquilla's Lecture: 2/2/04

Assignment

Read: Mearsheimer, chapters 1-2

February 9, 2004: Revamping American Grand Strategy

Sherle R. Schwenninger

Editor (1983-1991), World Policy; Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and co-director of the Global Economic Policy Program at the New America Foundation

Watch this lecture via webcast.berkeley: Schwenninger's Lecture: 2/9/04

Assignment

Brian Urquhart interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/UN/Urquhart/urquhart0.html

Read: Mearsheimer, chapters 3-4

February 23, 2004: The UN, Empire, and Multilateralism

Sir Brian Urquhart

former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, author Hammarskjold; Ralph Bunche: An American Life; and A Life in Peace and War; regular contributor to the New York Review of Books

Watch this lecture via webcast.berkeley: Urquhart's Lecture: 2/23/04

Assignment

Mead interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Mead/mead-con0.html

Read: Mearsheimer, chapters 5-6

March 1, 2004: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and U.S. Foreign Policy

Ronald Steel

Professor of International Relations, USC; author of Walter Lippmann and the American Century

Watch this lecture via webcast.berkeley: Steel's Lecture: 3/1/04

Assignment

Martin Smith interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/MSmith/msmith-con0.html

Read: Mearsheimer, chapters 7-8

March 8, 2004: Iraq (new documentary will be shown)

Martin Smith

Documentary Filmmaker with Frontline

Assignment

Ira Lapidus interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Lapidus/lapidus-con0.html

Read: Mearsheimer, chapters 9-10

March 15, 2004: U.S. Foreign Policy and Islam

Due: Book Review of Mearsheimer (this will serve as a midterm)
See the details on this book review assignment.

Ira Lapidus

Professor Emeritus of History, UC Berkeley

Watch this lecture via webcast.berkeley: Lapidus's Lecture: 3/15/04

Assignment

General Antony Zinni Interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Zinni/zinni-con0.html
Robert Jay Lifton interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Lifton/lifton-con0.html

March 22, 2004: Spring Break - No class

**April 2, 2004: Empire and Millitary Power

Note: This is a Friday. 12:00 noon; 145 Dwinelle Hall

Victor Hanson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Watch this lecture via webcast.berkeley: Hanson's Lecture: 4/2/04

Assignment

Robert Gallucci interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Gallucci/gallucci-con0.html

Jennifer Sims interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Sims/sims-con0.html

Read: Mead, introduction and chapter 1

**April 8, 2004: Intelligence, Democracy, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Note: This is a Thursday. 7:00 p.m.; Lipman Room, 8th Floor Barrows Hall

Watch these lectures via webcast.berkeley: Gallucci and Sims: 4/8/04

Assignment

Karsten Voigt interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Voigt/voigt-con0.html

Read: Mead, chapters 2-3

April 12, 2004: Europe

Josef Joffe

Editor, Die Zeit
This lecture is cosponsored by the European Union Center

Watch this lecture via webcast.berkeley: Joffe's Lecture: 4/12/04

Assignment

Steve Krasner interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Krasner/krasner-con0.html

Read: Mead, chapters 4-5

April 19, 2004: What Do We Do about Failed States and Rogue States, and How Do We Do It?

Note location change: Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business

(This lecture is part of the 2004 Peder Sather Symposium)

Speakers:

Commentators:

Watch this forum via webcast.berkeley: Failed States : 4/19/04

Assignment

James Fallows interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Fallows/fallows-con0.html

Read: Mead, chapters 6-7

April 26, 2004: Class cancelled

Assignment

Kenneth Waltz interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Waltz/waltz-con0.html

Read: Mead, chapters 8-9

May 3, 2004: Iraq and the War against Terrorism

John Mearsheimer

Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Watch this lecture via Webcast.berkeley: Mearsheimer's Lecture: 5/3/04

See also Mearsheimer's Interview in 2002, Through the Realist Lens

Assignment

Michael Nacht interview: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Nacht/nacht-con0.html

**May 6, 2004: A European Perspective on American Nationalism

Note: This is a Thursday; 4:00 p.m. in the Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall

Anatol Lieven

Watch this lecture via Webcast.berkeley: Lieven's Lecture: 5/6/04

Carnegie Endowment for Peace
This lecture is cosponsored by the European Union Center

May 10, 2004: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

Due: Book Review of Mead
See the details on this book review assignment.

Walter Russell Mead

Council on Foreign Relations

Watch this lecture via Webcast.berkeley: Mead's Lecture: 5/10/04

Final Exam

The final exam will be held on Thursday, May 20, from 5-8 p.m., in Room 230 Hearst Gymnasium. The exam will consist of 50 multiple choice questions; more information to follow.