CENTRE FOR CANADIAN, US & LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY M. A COURSE

Course no. : IS 572 N Course Title : Foreign Policy of the United States since the Second World War Instructor : Prof. Chintamani Mahapatra Credits Allotted : 4 Instructional Method : Lectures and Tutorials Semester : Winter Course Duration : One Semester Contact Hours : Four per week

COURSE CONTENT

1. An Overview of the Source of American Foreign Policy

a) External Sources; Societal Sources; Governmental Sources; Role Sources. b) Goals of American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspectives:- Expansionism; Imperialism; Isolationism

2. Foreign Policy Pattern since 1945

a) Globalism b) Threat Perceptions: Anti-Communism; Soviet Union as adversary c) Cold War and Interpretation of its Origin d) Containment Phase: Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Alliance Formation; Military Preparedness; Strategic Doctrines e) Détente; Linkage Theory f) End of Cold War: End of History; Victory of Democracy; Globalization g) Clash of Civilization h) War on Terrorism: Post- Post Cold War Phase

3. Regional Conflicts and US Engagements

a) Cuban Missile Crisis; Nicaraguan Conflict b) Korean War; Vietnam War c) Arab- Israeli Conflict d) Bosnia & Kosovo Crisis e) Kashmir f) Gulf War -I, II g) Afghanistan h) Humanitarian Interventions

4. Major Foreign Policy Issues/ Concerns

a. Indo- US Relations b. Sino- American Relations c. Nuclear Non- Proliferation d. Arms Control and Disarmament e. Managing International Trade f. Human Rights g. UN & Peace Keeping h. US- Pak Relations i. US- Afghanistan Relations

Selected Readings:

 Wittkopf, Eugene R. & James M. McCormick (2004), The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence, Maryland: Rowman & Lattilefield Publishers Inc.  McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan (2001), American Exceptionalism and U.S. Foreign Policy:  Public Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War, Palgrave Macmillan  Ambrose, Stephen E. (1990), Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938,  New York: Penguin.  Bacevich, Andrew J. (2004), American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S.  Diplomacy, Harvard University Press.  Layne, Christopher (2007), American empire : a debate, New York : Routledge.  Hogan, Michael J. & Thomas G. Paterson (1991), Explaining the History of American ForeignPolicy Relations, New York: Cambridge.  Mead, Walter Russell (2002), “American foreign policy legacy”, Foreign Affairs, 81: 1, 163-76.  Jentleson, Bruce W. (2000), American foreign policy : the dynamics of choice in the 21st  century, New York : Norton.  Brzezinski, Zbigniew (1997), The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its  Geostrategic Imperatives, USA: Basic Books.  Hunt, Michael H. (2009), Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, New Haven and London:  Yale University Press.  Meernik, James David (2004), The Political Use of Military Force in US Foreign Policy,  Ashgate Publications.  Dobson, Alan P. & Steve Marsh (2001), US Foreign Policy since 1945, New York: Routledge.  Gillon, Steven M. (2003), The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.  Spanier, John & Steven Hook (1995), American Foreign Policy since World War 11,  Washington DC: Congressional Quarterly Press.  Schmidt, Donald E. (2005), The Folly of War: American Foreign Policy, 1898-2005, Algora Publishing.  Brzezinski, Zbigniew & Brent Scowcroft, David Ignatius (2008), America and the World:  Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, Basic Books Publications.  Chossudovsky, Michel (2005), America's "War on Terrorism", Global Research Publications.  Rich, Paul B. (2004), Grand Strategy in the War Against Terrorism, Routledge.  Cameron, Fraser (2002), US Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Global Hegemon or Reluctant Sheriff?, Taylor & Francis, Inc.  Walsh, David (2007), The Military Balance in the Cold War: US Perceptions and Policy, 1976-1985, Routledge.  Bowie, Robert R. & Richard H. Immerman (1998), Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy, Oxford University Press, USA.  Gardner, Hall (2005), American Global Strategy And the War on Terrorism, Ashgate Publishing.  Gaddis, John Lewis (2005), Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American  National Security Policy during the Cold War, Oxford University Press, USA.  Leffler, Melvyn P (2003), “9/11 and the past and future of American foreign policy”, International Affairs, 79: 5, 1045-63.  Gordon, Philip H (2004), “American choices in the 'war on terror'”, Survival, 46: 1, 145- 55.  Patman, Robert, G. (2006), “Globalisation, the new US Exceptionalism and the War on Terror”, Third World Quarterly, 27: 6, 963-86.  Gardner, Hall (2007), Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy, Palgrave Macmillan Bankston, Carl L. (ed.) (2003), World Conflicts: Asia and the Middle East, Salem Press.  Harvey, Frank P (2003), “Addicted to security: Globalized terrorism and the inevitability of American unilateralism”, International Journal, 49 (1), 27-58.  Mahapatra, Chintamani (2009), The US Approach Towards Islamic World in the Post 9/11 Era, New Delhi: Academic Foundation.  Schwab, Orrin (2009), The Gulf Wars and the United States: Shaping the Twenty-First Century, Washington, DC: Library of Congress.  Lock-Pullan, Richard (2006), US intervention policy and army innovation: from Vietnam to Iraq, New York: Routledge.  Rottman, Gordon L (2005), US, World War II and Korean War Field Fortifications 1941- 53, Osprey Publishing Ltd.  Lennon, Alexender T. & Camille Eiss (2004), Reshaping rogue states: preemption, regime change, and U.S. policy toward Iran, Iraq and North Korea, Cambridge: MIT Press.  Stern, Sheldon (2005), The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis, Stanford University Press.  Gries, Peter Hays and Thomas J. Christensen (2001), “Power and Resolve in U.S. China Policy”,International Security, 26: 2; 155-165.  Friedberg, Aaron L. (2005), “The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?”, International Security, 30: 2; 7-45.  Ollapally, Deepa & Raja Ramanna (1995), “U.S.-India Tensions: Misperceptions on Nuclear Proliferation”, Foreign Affairs, 74: 1; 13-18.  Kapur, S. Paul & Sumit Ganguly (2006), “The Transformation of U.S.-India Relations: An Explanation for the Rapprochement and Prospects for the Future”, Asian Survey, 47: 4, 642-656 Ganguly, Sumit (2006), "Will Kashmir Stop India's Rise?", Foreign Affairs, 85: 4.  Kfir, Isaac (2009), “US Policy towards Pakistan and Afghanistan under the Obama  Administration, Middle East Review of International Affairs, 13: 4.  Chellaney, Brahma (2002), “Fighting Terrorism in Southern Asia: The Lessons of History”, International Security, 26: 3; 94-116.  Kux, Dennis (2002), India and the United States: Estranged Democracies 1941 – 1991,  University Press of the Pacific.  Kux, Dennis (2001), The US and Pakistan, 1947- 2000: Disenchanted Allies, John Hopkins University Press.  Mahapatra, Chintamani (2001), India- US Relations into the 21st Century, Institute for Defence Studies & Analysis,India  Pant, Harsh (2008), Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India  Negotiates its Rise in the International System,Palgrave Macmillan.  Ganguly, Sumit (2003), India as an Emerging Power, Routledge.  Cohen, Stephen P. (2001), India: Emerging Power, Brookings Institution Press  Ayres, Alyssa & C. Raja Mohan (2009), Power Realignments in Asia: China, India and the  United States, Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd  Talbott, Strobe (2004), Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb, Brookings Institution Press.  Suettinger, Robert L. (2003), Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations,  Brookings Institution Press.  Ignatieff, Michael (2005), American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, Princeton University Press.  Hancock, Jan (2007), Human Rights and US Foreign Policy, Routledge  Sorenson, David (2005), The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era, Frank Cass.  Pape, Robert A. (2005), “Soft Balancing against the United States”, International Security, 30 (1): 7–45.  Colucci, Lamont, (2008), Crusading Realism: The Bush Doctrine and American Core Values after 9/11, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc.  James McCormick (2012), The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidences, United Kingdom: Rowman& Littlefield.  Steven W. Hook and John W. Spanier (2015), American Foreign Policy Since World War II, USA: CQ Press.  Joyce P. Kaufman (2017), A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy, United Kingdom: Rowman& Littlefield.  Walter Russell Mead (2001), American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.  Andrew Bacevich, ed. (2018), Ideas and American Foreign Policy: A Reader, New York: Oxford University Press.  Tudor Onea (2013), US Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Restraint versus Assertiveness from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.  Steven Hurst (2005), Cold War US Foreign Policy: Key Perspectives, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.  John Lewis Gaddis (2006), The Cold War: A New History, USA: Penguin Books.  Henry Kissinger (1995), Diplomacy, New York: Simon and Schuster.  David Skidmore, ed. (2007), Paradoxes of Power: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changing World, New York: Routledge.  Michelle Bentley and Jack Holland, eds. (2013), Obama's Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror, New York: Routledge.  InderjeetParmar, Linda B. Miller and Mark Ledwidge, eds. (2009), New Directions in US Foreign Policy, New York: Routledge.  InderjeetParmar and Michael Cox, eds. (2010), Soft Power and US Foreign Policy: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, New York: Routledge.  Alex Miles (2012), US Foreign Policy and the Rogue State Doctrine, New York: Routledge.  Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch and Nicolas Bouchet, eds. (2013), US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion: From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, New York: Routledge.  Richard Haas (2013), Foreign Policy Begins at Home: the Case for Putting America's House in Order, New York: Basic Books.  Michael Mandelbaum (2011), The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, New York: Public Affairs.  Melvyn P. Leffler (2003), ‘9/11 and the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy,’ International Affairs, vol. 79, no. 5, pp. 1045-1063.  G. John Ikenberry and Peter L. Trubowitz (2014), American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, New York: Oxford University Press.  Robert J. McMahon and Thomas W. Zeiler, eds. (2012), Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History, Washington D.C.: CQ Press.  Robert Mcmahon (1999), The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II, New York: Columbia University Press.  Geoffrey F. Gresh and TugrulKeskin, eds. (2018), US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State, New York: Routledge.  Steve Coll (2005), Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, USA: Penguin Books.  George W. Bush (2011), Decision Points, USA: Broadway Books.  Bob Woodward (2011), Obama's Wars, New York: Simon & Schuster.  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014), Hard Choices: A Memoir, New York: Simon & Schuster.  J Holland and M Bentley (2013), ‘Conceptualising Change and Continuity in US ForeignPolicy’ in M Bentley and J Holland, eds., Obama’s Foreign Policy: Ending the War onTerror, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 192-201.  Richard A Melanson (2005), American Foreign Policy Since the Vietnam War: The Search for Consensus from Nixon to Clinton, New York: Routledge.  Andrew J. Bacevich (2009), The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, New York: Holt Paperbacks.  Christopher Layne (2006), ‘The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States’ Unipolar Moment,’ International Security, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 7–41.  Bruce W. Jentleson (2007), American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, USA: W.W. Norton & Company.  Hal Brands (2017), American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution.  Stephen M. Walt (2018), The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy, New York: Farass, Straus and Giroux.  Robert A. Strong (2005), Decisions and Dilemmas: Case Studies in Presidential Foreign Policy Making Since 1945, New York: Routledge.