UCL - United States Foreign Policy

[SPRI2311]

[30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Amine Ait-Chaalal

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The student will be able to conduct a structured and thorough policy paradigms foreign America. The aim is also to provide the keys to understanding the decisions of the foreign policy of the United States, including through the case study of application in the geopolitical context of specific situations or thematic international

Main themes

The main topics are:
- the political-institutional analysis and historical terms, actors, currents of thought, determinants, directions, and dynamic process of decision-making of American foreign policy
- the geopolitical boundaries of a specific area and its implications for foreign policy American (eg., the Balkans or the Middle East) or the demarcation of the international agenda and its implications for U.S. foreign policy (eg., global warming or the Court International Criminal).
- the study of American foreign policy in relation to the above area.

Content and teaching methods

It shall be the study of the main protagonists of American foreign policy, the political-institutional, historical and ideological structure, their modes of action and their interactions. Studied include the President and the presidential, ministerial departments, the Congress, non-official structures (lobbies, media, think tanks), the general public. The geopolitical boundaries of a specific area or a problem International is then performed. It aims to (re) place this area or this issue in its historical context and to highlight the geopolitical games in it for U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. foreign policy over the issue has been studied previously delineated. The analytical perspective is particularly placed in context of historical, geopolitical, ideological and socio-economic development.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite: Foreign Policy of small and medium-sized powers, including Belgium FAO and: Work
written exam at the end of the semester
reading file + Charles-Philippe David, Louis Balthazar, Justin Vaisse, a foreign policy of the United States, Presses de Sciences Po, Paris, 2003; and the cases studied, eg. : Georges Corm, Le Proche-Orient éclaté (1956-2007), Folio, Paris, 2007; Alain Gresh and Dominique Vidal, The 100 key Middle East, Hachette, Paris, 2003; William Quandt, Peace Process. American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967, Brookings, Washington, DC, 2005, Jean-Arnault Dérens & Catherine Samary, the Yugoslav conflicts from A to Z, Atelier, Paris, 2000; Laura Silber and Allan Little, The Death of Yugoslavia, Penguin / BBC, London, 1996.