26: Foreign Policy Limits within a Unipolar World - Bill Clinton
The purpose of our twenty-sixth class is to examine the foreign policy challenges that faced the Bill Clinton administration and assess how these migh...
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Sit back as Dr. Fowler shares the history of American foreign policy-making like its the greatest story ever told. This wholly online course examines the development of U.S. foreign relations, especially the interplay of legal, diplomatic, and power-driven motives and themes. While examining the manner in which the principal doctrines and institutions of American foreign policy became established, we will analyze the varying strategies and objectives, errors and accomplishments, of particular foreign policymakers within changing domestic and international contexts.
25: A New World Order?: George H. W. Bush
The purpose of our twenty-fifth class is to examine the transition from the Cold War to the post-Cold War eras and then examine some key aspects of ea...
24: Democracy Ascendant?: Ronald Reagan
The purpose of our twenty-fourth class is to analyze the new approaches that the Reagan Administration took to the making of U.S. foreign policy. Stud...
23: Camp David, Human Rights, Hostages: Jimmy Carter
The purpose of our twenty-third class is to examine the challenges that confronted U.S. policymakers after withdrawal from Vietnam. We will start by a...
22: Triangular Diplomacy
After a look at the Johnson administration’s intervention in the Dominican Republic and the post-Watergate changes in the presidency, the central purp...
21: Vietnam War
The purpose of our twenty-first class is to explore how and why the United States government chose to enter the quagmire of problems in Vietnam and th...
20: Cuban Missle Crisis
The purpose of class twenty is to examine the Bay of Pigs operation and then the Cuban Missile Crisis. What happened at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, and w...
19: Downhill Slide
We move back today to Latin America, and then on to the Middle East, where some of the next important stages of the Cold War occurred. The purpose of ...
3: The Federalist/Republican Split & the War of 1812
The purpose of this 3rd class is to watch America’s two political parties contend over foreign affairs, and then to examine one of America’s most cont...
2: Post-Independence Diplomacy
The purpose of this second class is to give students a better sense for American foreign policy in the years after the conclusion of the war for indep...