Government 1792

Intellectual Foundations of American Foreign Policy

1. September 20: Introduction to The Origins and Character of American Foreign Policy

-Hand out Declaration of Independence

2. September 27: Democracy and American Foreign Policy (275pp)

-Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1-6, 23-27 (40pp)

-George Washington, The Farewell Address (Hamilton Draft) (3pp)

-Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Parts II, III 18-26 (112pp)

  • Book II (65pp)
  • Book III, Chapters 18-26 (47pp)

-Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (46pp)

  • Chapter 1, The Concept of a Liberal Society (27pp)
  • Chapter 11, America and the World (19pp)

-Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World, Century Foundation (2001). (68pp)

  • Chapter 2, The Kaleidoscope of American Foreign Policy (25pp)

-Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (3 pp)

-George W. Bush, Second Inaugural Address (3pp)

3. October 4: The Foreign Policy Establishment (336pp)

-Irving Kristol, “American Intellectuals and Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (July 1967) Vol. 45 Issue 4, p594, (16pp)

-Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (208pp)

  • Introduction: Archictects of the American Century (22pp)
  • Chapter 4, World Courts (20pp)
  • Chapter 5, A Pretty Good Club (38pp)
  • Chapter 6, On Active Service: Enlisting in a noble cause. (12pp)
  • Chapter 9, Words of One Syllable: The Education of Harry Truman (34pp)
  • Chapter 14, “Simple Honest Men” / The Selling of the Marshall Plan (20pp)
  • Chapter 23, Judgment Days (36pp)
  • Chapter 24, Legacy (26pp)

-Robert Kaplan, The Arabists (1995) (112pp)

  • Chapter 5, Mr. Foreign Service (16pp)
  • Chapter 6, Old Hands (30pp)
  • Chapter 8, Aggrieved Area Experts (34pp)
  • Chapter 14, Hostages to Idealism (24pp)
  • Chapter 15, A New Species? (8pp)

4. October 11: The Presidency and Foreign Policy (283pp)

-Hamilton and Jay, Federalist Papers 67-77 (47pp)

-Pacificus No. 1 (3pp)

-Helvidius, No. 1 (2pp)

-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, sections from I, I, 8 ???

-Gary Schmitt, “Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality: Executive Energy and the Paradox of Executive Power,” Political Science Reviewer (11 web pages (22pp))

-Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power and Modern Presidents,New York: Free Press, 1990 (185pp)

  • Chapters 1-3, Leader or Clerk? Three Cases of Command, The Power to Persuade (50pp)
  • Chapters 10-12, Reappraising Power, Hazards fo Transition, A Matter of Detail (112pp)
  • Chapter 13, Two Cases of Self-Help (23pp)

-Terry Eastland, Energy in the Executive, Chapter 8: Bush and Congress v. Saddam Hussein,” (pp 24)

5. October 18: America Goes to War (319pp)

-Ernest May, World War and American Isolation, Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 1959 (66pp)

  • Chapter 2, America’s Benevolent Neutrality (20pp)
  • Chapter 7, Stirct Accountability (23pp)
  • Chapter 14, The Last Crisis (23pp)

-Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Quarantine Speech,” October 5, 1937 (5pp)

-Charles Beard, President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: Appearances and Realities (1948) (52pp)

  • Chapter 1, Moral Commitments for the Conduct of Foreign Affairs (10pp)
  • Chapter 9, Beginning of Revelations (17pp)
  • Chapter 18, Interpretations Tested by Consequences (25pp)

-Neustadt, Chapter 6 pp103-127 [Discusses Truman and Korea] (24pp)

-John P. Burke and Fred Greenstein, How President’s Test Reality: Decisions of Vietnam 1954 and 1965 (1991)

  • Part III: Intervention in 1965 + Chapter 12 (158pp)
  • OR just Chapter 12, Conclusion (18pp)

-Robert Dallek, Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Making of a Tragedy,” Diplomatic History, 1996 vol: 20 pg: 147 (16pp)

-George H.W. Bush address to Joint Session of Congress, Sept. 11, 1990 (3pp)

6. October 25: American Way of War (320pp)

-Eliot Cohen, Supreme Command, Chapter 2, “Lincoln Sends a Letter” (37pp)

  • Appendix: The Theory of Civilian Control (24pp) – offers a summary and critique of Huntington (lit review of sorts)

-Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief, (119pp)

  • Prologue, Chapter 1, FDR (95pp)
  • Epilogue (24pp)

-D. D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (40pp)

  • Chapter 1, Prelude to War (16pp)
  • Chapter 2, Global War (15pp)
  • Chapter 23, Operation Study (9pp)

-Stephen Rosen, “Vietnam and the American theory of limited war,” International Security, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Autumn 1982). 30pp

-Allan Stam, Dan Reiter, Democracies at War (Princeton 2002) (41pp)

  • Chapter 1, Democracy’s Fourth Virtue (9pp)
  • Chapter 2, Democracy, War Initiation, and Victory (too technical)
  • Chapter 6, Democracy, Consent, and the Path to War (20pp)
  • Chapter 8, Why Democracies Win Wars (12pp)

Film: Patton

7. November 1: Ideology and American Foreign Policy: The Cold War (198pp + Caute selection)

-Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World, Century Foundation (2001). (68pp)

  • Chapter 3, Changing Paradigms (43pp)

-Kennan, George F., American Diplomacy. (85pp)

  • Chapter 1, The War with Spain (20pp)
  • Chapter 5, World War II (16pp)
  • Chapter 6, Diplomacy in the Modern World (16pp)
  • Part II, The Sources of Soviet Conduct (= the famous Foreign Affairs Article) (22pp)
  • Part III, Chapter 2, American Diplomacy and the Military (11pp)

-Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation (1969) (70pp)

  • Chapter 1, Enlistment for the War to Come (6pp)
  • Chapter 2, The “Old” State Department (12pp)
  • Chapter 25, The Truman Doctrine (5pp)
  • Chapter 26, The Crisis Broadens: Birth of the Marshall Plan (9pp)
  • Chapter 31, The North Atlantic Traty (8pp)
  • Chapter 38, A Reappraisal of Policies (9pp)
  • Chapter 41, A New Definition of Foreign Policy (11pp)
  • Chapter 44, War in Korea: The Outbreak (11pp)

-David Caute, The Fellow Travelers: Intellectual Friends of Communism (Yale, 1989) ???

Film: Kiss Me Deadly

8. November 8: Ideology and American foreign policy: Neo-Cons or Wilsonianism Reborn (265pp)

-John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Harvard 2004) (118pp)

-Robert Kagan, “History Repeating Itself: Liberalism and Foreign Policy’” New Criterion April 4 1999 (26pp)

-Robert Kagan and William Kristol, Present Dangers (2000). Introduction (21pp)

-Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism, Oxford (2005) (88pp)

  • Introduction (8pp)
  • Chapter 1, Wilsonians under Arms (25pp)
  • Chapter 3, Left Right Left (32pp)
  • Chapter 5, Onward (23pp)

-Steve Sestanovich, “American Maximalism,” The National Interest, Spring, 2005 (12pp)

9. November 15: Morality and American Foreign Policy (291pp)

-George F. Kennan, “Foreign Policy and Christian Conscience,” The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 203 No. 5, May, 1959, pp44-49. (6pp)

-Michael Neufield and Michael Berenbaum, eds., The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies have attempted it (2000) (57pp)

  • Introduction to the Controversy (10pp)
  • Chapter 1, The Allies and the Holocaust, (12pp)
  • Chapter 8, The Bombing of Auschwitz Revisited: A Critical Analysis (26pp)
  • Chapter 15, Contemporary American Jewish Historiography (9pp)

-Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell (2003) (162pp)

  • Preface (10pp)
  • Chapter 8, Iraq (76pp)
  • Chapter 10, Rwanda (62pp)
  • Chapter 13, Conclusion, (14pp)

OR Samantha Powers, “Bystanders to Genocide,” Atlantic Monthly, (Deals only with Rwanda) (25pp)

-Gary Bass, Stay the Hand of Vengeance (2000), Chapter 5: Nuremberg (pp147-206) (60pp)

-Leo P. Ribuffo, “Religion in the History of U.S. Foreign Policy,” The National Interest; Summer 1998, Issue 52, p36, (16pp)

Film: Black Hawk Down

10. November 22: Nation-Building and American Foreign Policy (SR/WK) (209pp)

-Brian Linn, The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (2002) (98pp)

  • Chapter 9, The Guerilla War (40pp)
  • Chapter 10 (15pp)
  • Chapter 11 & 13 Skim
  • Chapter 12 (21pp)
  • Chapter 14, Samar (16pp)
  • Chapter 15, Conclusion (6pp)

-Francis Fukuyama, State Builiding: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Cornell 2004) (121pp)

11. November 29: The US and Europe SR/WK (268pp)

-Hermann Melville, Benito Cereno (100pp)

-Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (2004) (103pp) + Afterward (52pp)

-Robert Cooper, “Imperial Liberalism,” The National Interest, Spring 2005 (13pp)

Film: High Noon

12. December 6: Unilateralism and International Organizations (158pp)

-UN Secretary General’s Report, “In Larger Freedom” (2005)

  • Executive Summary (6pp)

-Jesse Helms, United Nations Reform, excerpts (2pp)

-Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Memorandum to the President”, Toward an International Criminal Court, pp. 1-18 (18pp)

-Jeremy Rabkin, The Case for Sovereignty, AEI Press (2004) (127pp)

  • Chapter 2, Sovereignty in Principle (41pp)
  • Chapter 2, Sovereignty Despite Atlantic Community (29pp)
  • Chapter 3, Sovereingty and Security (pp30)
  • Chapter 6, American Aims in a Diverse World (27pp)

-John Bolton’s comments on the ICC in Remarks at the AEI, November 3, 2003 (5pp)

13. December 13: Republic or (and?) Empire (326pp)

-William JenningsBryan , “The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism,” 1900 Speech (10pp)

-Raymond Aron, The ImperialRepublic (1974) (220pp)

  • Introduction (7pp)
  • Prologue (15pp)
  • Part I, The United States in the Inter-State System (157pp)?
  • Part I Conclusion pp148-157 (9pp)
  • Postscript: Between Imperial Diplomacy and Isolationism (32pp)

-Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World, Century Foundation (2001). (52pp)

  • Chapter 1, The American Foreign Policy Tradition (27pp)
  • Chapter 9, The Future of American Foreign Policy (25pp)

-Stephen Rosen, “An Empire if You Can Keep It,” National Interest (Spring 2003) (11pp)

-Kim Kagan, “Hegemony, Not Empire; How the Pax Americana Differs from the Pax Romana,” The Weekly Standard, May 6, 2002 (3pp)

-Robert Kagan, and Niall Ferguson, “The United States Is, and Should Be, and Empire,” A New Atlantic Initiative Debate, July 17, 2003. AEI Transcript. (30pp)

Books to order at Coop (For Student Purchase)

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [$7.95 or $20.00 for the Mansfield translation]

Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers [$13.95] (available online in th public domain)

Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men [$20.00]

Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power and Modern Presidents [$19.95]

John Burke and Fred Greenstein, How President’s Test Reality (1991) [$18.95]

Kennan, George F., American Diplomacy [$9.50]

John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security, and the American Experience [$18.95]

Melville, Benito Cereno in Billy Budd and Other Stories (probably don’t need - available online in public domain) [7.95]

Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power [$11.00]

Jeremy Rabkin, The Case for Sovereignty [$25.00]

Raymond Aron, ImperialRepublic(looks like it is out of print, but there may be enough used copies available?)

Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World, Century Foundation (2001) [$19.95]