Information Package / Course Catalogue
American Foreign Policy
Course Code: INT402
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: English
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 8
Objectives of the Course

The aim of the course is to address the development, historical evaluation, institutional structure and theoretical dimensions of the American Foreign Policy.

Course Content

In this course, the establishment process of the USA, USA's grand strategy, its foreign policy's evolution, historical development of the USA foreign policy, theoretical aspects of it and decison-making process of it will be analysed.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Bülent Sarper AĞIR
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to learn the historical evolution of the US foreign policy
2.To be able to learn the decision making process of the US foreign policy
3.To be able to analyse the cases of the US foreign policy
4.Students will be able to explain the relationships between facts with an analytical structure.
5.Students will be able to make comparision between different periods of the American foreign policy.
6.Students will be able to learn the presidential doctrines of U.S. foreign policy
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Steven W. Hook ve John Spanier, American Foreign Policy Since World War II, Washington, CQ Press, 2007
2.John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947, Columbia University Press, New York, 1972
3.Robert D. Schulzinger, U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002
4.Heiko Meiertöns, The Doctrines of US Security Policy: An Evaluation under International Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introductionary course
Week 2 - Theoretical
The Establishment Process of the USA
Week 3 - Theoretical
19. Century U.S. Foreign Policy and American Civil War
Week 4 - Theoretical
U.S. Grand Strategy and its Origins
Week 5 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy Before and After World War I
Week 6 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy's Theories
Week 7 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy's Decision-Making Process and its Actors
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm Exam
Week 9 - Theoretical
Presidential Doctrines in U.S. Foreign Policy
Week 10 - Theoretical
US Foreign Policy in the Inter-War Period
Week 11 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy During the World War II
Week 12 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy During the Cold War I
Week 13 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy During the Cold War II
Week 14 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s and 2000s
Week 15 - Theoretical
U.S. Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations
Week 16 - Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory1463126
Assignment84356
Midterm Examination113417
Final Examination117522
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)221
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
OÇ-1
4
4
3
3
3
3
OÇ-2
3
3
3
4
4
4
OÇ-3
4
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-4
3
3
4
4
4
4
OÇ-5
4
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-6
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