HISTORY 728 / American Foreign Relations

3 unit(s)

S. Streeter

This seminar explores major topics in the history of the U.S. foreign relations since the late nineteenth century. Areas covered include the traditional ones, such as the War of 1898, U.S. hegemony in Latin America, U.S. intervention in the First and Second World Wars, the origins of the Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and diplomacy in the Middle East. These subjects will be explored using conceptual approaches and analytical methods that include dependency theory, world systems, bureaucratic politics, as well as modernization theory, gender, race, cultural transfer, and critical theory.