US FOREIGN POLICY

Course Description

This course aims to familiarize student with the process and content of US foreign policy. It intended to help students acquire a sound conceptual and practical understanding of the foreign policy challenges that US policy-makers face, and of the reasons for and implications of their decisions. Conceptual approaches to the analysis of American foreign policy and some of the key foreign policy issues that confront the United States since the end of the Cold War. The course will draw attention to the evolution of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War years (1945-1991), on the post-Cold War period (post-1990 era) as well as on the post-September 11 era will be discussed.

US FOREIGN POLICY

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Course outcomes

1. 01 By the end of the course, the students will distinguish major concepts and theories concerning the foreign policy of the US.
2. 02 This course will also transmit to the students the knowledge necessary for analysis of US foreign policy.
3. 03 Throughout the course the students will analyze the main issues and aspects of the US foreign policy-making.

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Cox, M. and D. Stokes (2012) US Foreign Policy Oxford: OUP.

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 Throughout the course the students will analyze the main issues and aspects of the US foreign policy-making. SOLO 4
2. L02 By the end of the course, the students will distinguish major concepts and theories concerning the foreign policy of the US. SOLO 4
3. L03 This course will also transmit to the students the knowledge necessary for analysis of US foreign policy. SOLO 2

Program Outcomes

1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

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