Sylabus
Monday, 19 April: International Terrorism
Leslie S. Lebl, "Radical Islam in Europe," Orbis 54 (January 2010): 46-60.
Dov S. Zakheim, "What?s In a Name? Ending the ?War? on Terror," American Interest (May/June 2008): 17-24.
Tuesday, 20 April: "Revisionist" States
Christopher Layne, "The Waning of U.S. Hegemony - Myth or Reality?" International Security 34 (Summer 2009): 147-72.
Daniel W. Drezner, "Bad Debts: Assessing China?s Financial Influence in Great Power Politics," International Security 34 (Fall 2009): 7-45.
Wednesday, 21 April: Nuclear Weapons
Francis J. Gavin, "Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War," International Security 34 (Winter 2009/10): 7-37.
Bradley L. Bowman, "The ?Demand-Side?: Avoiding a Nuclear-Armed Iran," Orbis 52 (January 2008): 627-42.
Thursday, 22 April: Environment (including Resources)
Michael T. Klare, "Oil, Iraq, and American Foreign Policy: The Continuing Salience of the Carter Doctrine," International Journal 62 (Winter 2006/2007): 31-42.
David G. Victor et al., "The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming?" Foreign Affairs 88 (March/April 2009): 64-76.
Friday, 23 April: Transatlantic Alliance
Stephen M. Walt, "Alliances in a Unipolar World," World Politics 61 (January 2009): 86-120.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, "An Agenda for NATO: Toward a Global Security Web," Foreign Affairs 88 (September/October 2009): 2-20.
Anotace
In Summer semester 2010 this course offers a series of lectures on US FOREIGN POLICY: CONTEMPORARY SECURITY CHALLENGES delivered by prof. David Haglund, Queens University.
The lectures take place during the week 19 - 23 APRIL 2010. The one-week course will introduce students to contemporary policy discussions in Washington regarding the nature of current and likely future security challenges and the most appropriate responses thereto.