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For the fall semester [which begins Tuesday, September 4, 2012], course details are outlined below.
This is a 3-credit graduate level course and requires that students have completed a BA in order to enroll.
This class is offered through UMass Boston University College. If you are accepted for enrollment, you will be directed to visit http://www.umb.edu/academics/uc/credit/ or the UMass Boston WISER application.
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PAF G 697 Special Topics: US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Professor Primo Vannicelli
Classes begin week of September 4, 2012 and end late December, 2012
This course focuses on the context and process of US foreign policy, with primary attention to the rapidly changing international system in the 2lst century. The first part of the course focuses on the historical context and conceptual foundations of US foreign policy. The Cold War period will be analyzed for its role in shaping many dimensions and institutions which still dominate the current, evolving new world order. Special attention will be given to the salient issues and emerging patterns that define the essence of US foreign policy in the post-American world of the 21st century: the impact on US foreign policy-making; global responses to US policies (rise of China, the European Union, the developing countries, etc); terrorism and religious-ideological radicalism; the threat of nuclear weapons, the Arab Awakening; the end of the Third World and US foreign aid policy; the search for influence in a multilateral world order (role of soft power, smart power, public diplomacy); political debates within the US and the elusiveness of a new consensus; the challenges of an expanding global economy and climate change. To illustrate some of the salient patterns, a variety of “case studies” will be utilized.
Please download and complete the NonDegree Course Enrollment Request form and email to IRMasters@umb.edu, to request enrollment and to address the prerequisite requirements.
