U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1914
Spring 2013
This course will examine the role of the United States in the international arena from World War I to the present. In my lectures, I will examine the motivations, objectives, and tactics of U.S. policymakers. The course will focus on America's embroilment in two world wars; its Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union; its responses to revolutionary movements abroad; its intervention in Vietnam; its role as hegemon in the international economic system; and its struggle against terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There will be two or three take-home writing assignments of 5-10 pages. I may ask for weekly reflections on the readings or give occasional quizzes.
Readings will average about 150-225 pages a week. There will be a textbook, weekly primary documents on UVA collab, and five or six monographs.
This will not fulfill the second writing requirement.
