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Waltz, 2000. “Structural Realism After the Cold War.” International Security

Wendt, 1992. “Anarchy is What States Make of it.” International Organization

(optional)  Jervis, 1978. “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.” World Politics

Beckley and Brands, 2021. "The End of China's Rise," Foreign Affairs

Allison, 1969. “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” APSR

Barnett/Finnemore, 1999. “The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International

Organizations.” International Organization

Brooks/Wohlforth 2023.“The Myth of Multipolarity." Foreign Affairs

Wohlforth, 2009.“Unipolarity, Status Competition and Great Power War,”  World Politics

Miller et al, 2015 "Norms, Behavioral Compliance and Status Competition," International Interactions

Bezerra et al 2015 "Going for the Gold versus Distributing the Green..." Foreign Policy Analysis

Larsen and Shevchenko 2010 "Status Seekers..." International Security

Gartzke, 2007 "The Capitalist Peace, " American Journal of Political Science

Acharya, 2007 "The emerging regional architecture of world politics." World Politics 

Destradi, 2010 "Regional Powers and their Strategies, Review of International Affairs

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The SYLLABUS is here

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The required readings are here:

Colgan (2013). “Domestic Revolutionary Leaders and International Conflict.” World Politics.

Saunders (2017). No Substitute for Experience..." International Organization.

Bacevich (2011) "The Tyranny of Defense Inc." Atlantic Magazine 

Cohen (2017) "Live and Learn." Foreign Policy Analysis

​Keller et al (2020) "Presidential Risk Propensity and Intervention in Interstate Conflicts" Foreign Policy Analysis

The Economist (2023) "The meticulous, ruthless preparations for a second Trump term."

Astor (2019) "How much political experience does it take...." New York Times

Berinsky, A. (2007) “Assuming the Costs of War: Events, Elites and American Support for Military Conflict,” Journal of Politics, Vol.69, No. 4. 

 Baum (2013) “The Iraq Coalition of the Willing and (Politically) Able…” American Journal of Political Science

Jacobs and Page (2005) "Who Influences US Foreign Policy." APSR

Baum and Potter (2019) "Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy..." Journal of Politics  

Tama (2018) "The Multiple forms of Bipartisanship..." Social Science Research Council

Milner and Tingley (2011) Who Supports Global Economic Engagement" International Organization 

Bueno de Mesquita, Principles of International Politics, pps. 157-170

Groves, (2015). “Principal-Agent Problems…,” International Journal of Political Science and Development.

Blinken and Kagan (2019) "America First is Only Making Things Worse..." The Washington Post

Drezner (2019) "Present at the Destruction..." Journal of Politics

DeYoung (2015) "How the Obama white House Runs Foreign Policy." Washington Post. 

Schmidt, B. & Williams, M. (2008) “Bush Doctrine & the Iraq War:   Neoconservatives vs. Realists.” Security Studies. April: 191-220.

Brooks and Wohlforth (2015) "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers..." International Security

Waltz (2000) "Structural Realism after the Cold War." International Security

Ikenberry, G. John (2009) “Liberal Internationalism 3.0: America and the Dilemma of Liberal World Order.” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 7, pp. 71-87.

Amorim Neto and Malamud (2015) “Who Determines Foreign Policy in Latin America?” Latin American Politics and Society 57, 4.

Gordon and Shapiro (2022) "How Trump Killed the Atlantic Alliance." Foreign Affairs

The Economist (2020) "China v America"

Moravcsik (1997) "Taking Preferences Seriously..." International Organization

(Bureaucratic Model)  Marsh, K. (2013) “Obama’s Surge: A Bureaucratic Politics Analysis of the Decision to Order a Troop Surge in the Afghanistan War.” Foreign Policy Analysis (February).

Yahi Milo (2013) "In the Eye of the Beholder..." International Security

Verma (2020) "Pompeo Says Human Rights Policy..."

Smith (2020) "Missing in Analysis: Women in Foreign Policy Making." Foreign Policy Analysis

Wendt (1992)  "Anaarchy is what states make of it..." International Organization

Bueno de Mesquita, “Selectorate Theory.” In Principles of International Politics.

Siverson and Bueno de Mesquita. (2017). “The Selectorate Theory and International Politics,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory

Wong (2022). "On US foreign policy the new boss acts a lot like the old one," New York Times.

The Economist (2022). "Change you can't believe in..." The Economist.

Gordell and Volgy (2022). "Political Shocks in foreign policy and international politics," Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.

Feaver (2009) “What is Grand Strategy and why do we need it?”

Drezner (2011) “Does Obama Have a Grand Strategy?”

Ferguson (2016) “Donald Trump’s New World Order.” The American Interest

​Drezner et al (2020) "The End of Grand Strategy," Foreign Affairs

Miller (2012) “Global Politics and Strategy…Five Pillars.”

Volgy et al. (2017) "Conflict, Regions, and Regional Hierarchies," in Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations

Charountaki (2014) “US Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice: From Soviet Era Containment to the Era of Arab Uprising(s).” American Foreign Policy Interests.

The Economist (2022) "Change You Can't Believe In..."

Biden (2022) "Why I am Going to Saudi Arabia"

Fantappie and Nasr (2023). "The War that remade the Middle East," Foreign Affairs

Bader (2022) "Biden's China Policy Needs to be More Than Just Trump Lite," Brookings

The Economist (2022) "America Rethinks Its Strategy for Taking on China's Economy"

The Economist (2022) "Nancy Pelosi's Visit..."

Haass (2021) "The Age of America First..." Foreign Affairs

Monaghan (2013) “Russia’s Grand Strategy.”

Gordon and Shapiro (2020). "How Trump Killed the Atlantic Alliance."

Pham (2014) “The Development of the US Africa Command and its Role in America’s Africa Policy…” Journal of the Middle East and Africa

Lew (2016) “America and the Global Economy: The Case for US Leadership.” Foreign Affairs

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Additional materials here:

     U.S. National Security Strategy (2017)

     Administration speech on the Middle East (January 10, 2019) here

     Economy (2020). China's New Revolution. Foreign Affairs.

     National Intelligence Strategy (2019)

    Pew Reseach Center's Public Opinion Poll on US Foreign Policies (2018)

     (Reuters, 8/2/19) Factbox: From Phone Makers to Farmers, the Toil From Trump's Trade Wars

      Kaplan, 2019. "Hitting First (on starting a nuclear war), Slate

       The Dereliction of Diplomacy (The Economist, August, 2020)

  Organizational Charts/ US Foreign Policy Establishment 

   Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Public Opinion on Foreign Policy

  Research Design Power Point

Resources on U.S. Intelligence:

https://afiocr.org/resources 

https://afiocr.org/spymuseums 

https://afiocr.org/agency-social-media 

https://afiocr.org/relatedsites 

https://afiocr.org/bibliographies-1

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Materials on Biden Transition

  Changes to the National Security Council

  Biden to nominate Avril Haines as DNI here

  Choosing a New CIA Chief

  Biden's Chief of Staff at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/politics/ron-klain-biden.html

  Blinken as Secretary of State at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/politics/biden-antony-blinken-secretary-of-state.html

  Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor at: https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/30/951280373/why-bidens-national-security-adviser-plans-to-focus-on-the-u-s-middle-class 

    and at: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/27/jake-sullivan-biden-national-security-440814

  Secretary of Defense at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/politics/lloyd-austin-biden-defense-secretary.html?searchResultPosition=1

   Biden's pick for Homeland Security at: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-immigration-alejandro-mayorkas-barack-obama-united-states-c52b7626a0a988f9d9fbbceb0f0a3300

   Biden picks Tai as US Trade Representative here

   UN Ambassador at: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/veteran-diplomat-linda-thomas-greenfield-returns-bidens-pick/story?id=74408696

   All Cabinet nominees at: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/joe-bidens-cabinet-begins-to-take-shape.html 

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