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Related Preparation |
1) |
• Recognize the syllabus
• Recognize the topics of course.
• Discuss Course Outline.
• Discuss the role of US foreign policy in international relations.
• Evaluate the study method. |
Homework: Hastedt, 2014, pp. 81-109 for next class session. |
2) |
• Explain domestic and foreign components in US which are effecting by shaping US foreign policy.
• Identify the role of Jackson, Hamilton and Wilson’s role on shaping US foreign policy traditions.
• Compare traditional approaches effects on US foreign policy.
• Evaluate which historical events are accepted as the milestones in US foreign policy.
• Discuss the roles of three traditions in US foreign policy.
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Homework: assigned readings, Hastedt, 2014, pp. 175-231 for next class session.
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3) |
• List the Presidents after WWI and discuss on their theoretical perspectives.
• Compare different doctrines and their focus point.
• Explain how bureaucracy involve the decision making process in US.
• State pros and cons of US foreign policy decision making process with considering specific crises.
• Discuss the role of bureaucracy in democratic and republican governments.
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Homework: assigned readings, Hastedt, 2014, pp. 143-175, and Maersheimer&Walt, 2008, pp. 200-306 for next class session. |
4) |
• Explain the distinctive qualifications of both parts of the congress.
• Compare historical eras in US Congress.
• Explain the decision making process in US Congress.
• Recognize the legal beckground of lobbies.
• Discuss the effects of lame duck situation in US Congress.
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Homework: assigned reading from Hastedt, 2014, pp. 109-143 for next class session |
5) |
• Compare the differences and similarities between different interest groups.
• Demonstrate the informal partitioning of political interest groups in US foreign policy.
• Determine the function of lobbies by connecting interest groups and decision makers.
• Discuss the success interest groups on effecting US foreign policy. |
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6) |
• Evaluate students’ comprehension of the material via midterm exam
• Identify the role of Jackson, Hamilton and Wilson’s role on shaping US foreign policy traditions.
• Compare different doctrines and their focus point.
• Discuss the effects of lame duck situation in US Congress.
• Determine the function of lobbies by connecting interest groups and decision makers.
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7) |
• Illustrate the different foreign policy implementations for first 150 years of US.
• Recognize the Monroe Doctrine.
• Explain the Wilson’s foreign policy understanding.
• Demonstrate the transformation from Monroe’s isolationism to Wilson’s isolationism.
• Discuss the role of Wilson by transforming US foreign policy.
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Homework: assigned reading from Hastedt, 2014, pp. 259-287 for next class session |
8) |
• Explain the different foreign policy implementations in interwar period.
• Recognize the Wilson Doctrine.
• List Wilson’s 14 principles.
• Illustrate the international environment throughout interwar period.
• Discuss the role of 14 principles by involvement of US foreign policy into the affairs of Europe.
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Homework: assigned reading from Hastedt, 2014, pp. 315-343 for next class session |
9) |
• Explain the different foreign policy implementations in Cold War period.
• Recognize the Truman, Eisenhower and Carter Doctrines.
• Examine the containment policy.
• Illustrate strategic balance between USSR and USA between 1945-1975.
• Discuss the role of Detante politics by ending of Cold War.
• Evaluate the role of SALT and START aggreements by ending of Cold War.
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Homework: assigned reading from Hastedt, 2014, pp. 287-315 for next class session |
10) |
• Evaluate students’ comprehension of the material via midterm exam
• Demonstrate the transformation from Monroe’s isolationism to Wilson’s isolationism.
• Recognize the Wilson Doctrine.
• List Wilson’s 14 principles.
• Recognize the Truman, Eisenhower and Carter Doctrines.
• Evaluate the role of SALT and START aggreements by ending of Cold War.
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11) |
• Discuss is there a stable foreign policy in post-Cold War period.
• Analyze the transformation from Bush to Obama administration.
• Describe the Bush Doctrine.
• Discuss the role of WMD’s by shaping US foreign policy.
• Compare foreign policy understandings of Wilson and Obama.
• Discuss the effect of global terrorism to US foreign policy.
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Homework: assigned reading from Hastedt, 2014, pp. 343-367 for next class session |
12) |
• Explain the effects of 9/11 attacks on US foreign policy.
• Compare Bush administration’s hard power politics with Clinton administration’s soft power politics.
• Discuss smart power politics of Obama Administration.
• Evaluate the politic and economic costs of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. |
Homework: assigned reading from Hastedt, 2014, pp. 301-367 for next class session |
13) |
• Explain NATO’s transformation in post-cold war period.
• Analyze how NATO functionalizes by implementation of US foreign policy.
• Discuss which international organizations are more effective for US as foreign policy channels.
• Compare neo-con and liberal perspectives on functions of international organizations.
• Compare the veto mechanisms which was used by US in Cold war and post-cold War periods.
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14) |
• Recognize the interests of US in Middle East.
• Explain the transformation of Central Asian foreign policy of US.
• Compare cold war perod and post-cold war period foreign policy implementations of US foreign policy.
• Discuss the reflections of US foreign policy toward China’s rise.
• Explain the US foreign policy implementations toward Cuba and Venezuela.
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15) |
• Evaluate students via final exam
• Compare foreign policy understandings of Wilson and Obama.
• Compare Bush administration’s hard power politics with Clinton administration’s soft power politics.
• Evaluate the politic and economic costs of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
• Compare neo-con and liberal perspectives on functions of international organizations.
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