Colloquium 18 Post-Cold War American Diplomacy 6-13-2010

Colloquium 18 Post-Cold War American Diplomacy SPRING 2010 (4-30-2010 – the last version in this semester !!!!!!) Pavel Machala N Gordon Levin pmachala@amherst.edu amstuds@amherst.edu https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/nglevin Morgan Hall 111 Advising Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00 http://www.amherst.edu/~pmachala/ https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/pmachala Clark House 201 Advising Hours: Monday & Thursday 3:30-5:00 A 1992 still-classified Pentagon Defense Policy Guidance draft asserts that America’s political and military mission in the post-cold war era will be to ensure that no rival superpower be allowed to emerge in world politics This course will examine American foreign relations from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present We will study the similarities and differences in the styles of statecraft of all post-cold war U.S administrations in producing, managing and sustaining America’s unrivaled international position which emerged in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union While examining the debates between liberals and neoconservatives about America’s role in the world both preceding and following the 9-11 attack, we will also discuss the extent to which these debates not only have shaped American foreign policy but also how they have has influenced our domestic politics and vice versa Among the other main themes to be examined: the strategic, tactical and humanitarian uses of military and other forms of power by each administration (e.g., towards Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan); U.S policy towards NATO and towards the world economy; U.S policy towards Russia, China, the Middle East and Latin America; human, economic and political costs and benefits of American leadership in this period SYLLABUS AND READING ASSIGNMENTS 1|Page (1) You can find the electronic version of this syllabus at our Amherst College course website https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/0809S/COLQ/COLQ18-0809S (2) The course is divided into fourteen sections Unless otherwise indicated, each section corresponds to one seminar meeting (3) Course requirements: • Regular attendance • Read all the assigned literature in advance of each class session • At minimum, you are required to post comments to EIGHT separate Blackboard “Discussion Boards.” Each “discussion board” corresponds to one class meeting Please submit your comments no later than Wednesday, 9:00 am • A term paper essay of approximately twenty pages will be due on Friday, May 14, on approximately the following topic: “American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era has been conducted by four administrations To what extent you see overall continuities in the diplomatic ends and means of these four administrations? To what extent you see significant differences among them? To what you attribute these similarities/differences?” (4) Materials to be Read: • Throughout the course we will be referring to current events in world politics and American foreign policy Please try to read one major American newspaper on a regular (preferably daily) basis • ALL REQUIERD READINGS for this course exist either on E-Reserve or at Frost Library’s Reserve Desk OPTIONAL readings exist only on E-Reserve • You may purchase many of these required readings in a multilith packet which will be available in the Political Science Office, Room 103, Clark House Indeed we strongly recommend that you purchase this course READER! To so you will need to submit a REQUEST PURCHASE FORM, https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/political_science/multilithorderform If you order this Course Reader, it will be ready to be picked up soon after February • You may purchase the required books at Amherst Books (on the corner of Main and 2|Page South Pleasant Street) In the syllabus they are identified as (P) Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, Public Affairs Ivo Daalder & James M Lindsay, America Unbound, The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, Brookings Ivo H Daalder, Getting From Dayton, The Making of America’s Bosnia Policy, Brookings Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land, Bantam David E Sanger, The Inheritance Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand, Random House Jon Western, Selling Intervention and War, • Besides E-Reserve, you can also access some of the electronic readings (which also exist on E-Reserve) through my website (http://www.amherst.edu/~pmachala/ ) The easiest way to access these readings is by using the electronic version of the syllabus and then clicking on the texts’ hyperlinks (username: “student;” password: “student0910”) In the syllabus these readings are identified as (W) The links to these readings not always work though a Mac; if you encounter this problem, try to open them on a PC or go to E-Reserve (ALL W-readings also exist as E-Reserve readings.) • Books recommended for purchase are marked (P) Readings available on my website are marked (W) Readings available in E-Reserve are marked (E) Readings compiled in multilith form are marked (M) Books at Frost Library Reserve Desk are marked (R) 3|Page Class One (January 27) OUR VEY FIRST CLASS MEETING) Introduction to the course – the meaning of the end of the Cold War era! George F Kennan “The G.O.P Won the Cold War? Ridiculous,” The New York Times, October 28, 1992 http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/wf052207.htm http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6DC1231F93BA15753C1A964958260 (E) Zbigniew Brzezinski, “The Cold War and its’ Aftermath,” FOREIGN AFFAIRS, fall 1992, 31-49 (W) (E) Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?,” National Interest, No.16, summer 1989 (W-edited version) (E-full version) N Gordon Levin, Woodrow Wilson and World Politics, pp 1-10 and 253-260 (W) (E) Charles Krauthammer, The Unipolar Moment, Foreign Affairs, winter 1990/91(W) (E) OPTIONAL Josef Jaffe, Uberpower, 30-66 (W) (R) Zbigniew Brzezinski, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, 1-15 (R) Daniel Deudney and G John Ikenberry, “Who Won the Cold War?,” FOREIGN POLICY, Summer 1992, 123-138 (W) (E) 4|Page Class Two (February 3) THE IRAQ WAR Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp 1-16 (P) (R) Micha L Sifry & Christopher Cerf, eds The Iraq War Reader, pp 58-71, 101-102 (W) (R) Robert W Tucker & David C Hendrickson, The Imperial Temptation, The New World Order and America’s Purpose, pp 73-131, 160-161, 192-197 (W) (R) Denis Ross, Statecraft, pp 73-99 (W) (R) Micha L Sifry & Christopher Cerf, eds., The Gulf War Reader, pp 225-229, 234-242, 251-254, 284-286, 302-310 (W) (R) Strobe Talbott, Post-Victory Blues, Foreign Affairs, America and the World 1991/92 (W) (E) VIDEO Saddam Hussein: To the tune of “thanks for the memories," this photo-essay follows the CIA support of Saddam (most of it is pretty accurate, except for maybe the very end) http://slackdaddy.org//node/1137/#saddam (IF this link does not work, go to and read http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html; http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/2003/0410saddam.htm OPTIONAL Mark Hosenball, “The Odd Couple: How George Bush Helped Create Saddam Hussein,” New Republic; 6/1/92, Vol 206 Issue 22, p 27-35 (W) (E) Dobbs, Michael, "U.S Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup: Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds,” Washington Post, December 30, 2002 (W) (E) Nye, Joseph S., “Why the Gulf War Served the National Interest”, The Atlantic, July 1991 (W) (E) Layne, Christopher, “Why the Gulf War Was Not in the National Interest”, The Atlantic, July 1991 (W) (E) Timothy Naftali, George H W Bush Times Books, 2007, 224 pp pp $22.00 Reviewed by Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 (E) Michael Beschloss & StrobeTalbott, At the Highest Levels, pp 268-287, 320-344 (R) Since the last time we taught this course 5|Page Class Three (February 10) THE NEW WORLD ORDER Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp 16-52 (P) (R) Excerpts from “Defense Policy Guidance, “Prevent the Re-emergence of a New Rival,” New York Times, March 8, 1992) (W) (E) Patrick Tyler, “U.S Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop – A One- Superpower World, New York Times, March 8, 1992 ) or http://homepage.newschool.edu/~quigleyt/dpg94-99.htm (W) (E) Tyler, Patrick E., "Pentagon Drops Goals of Blocking New Superpowers," The New York Times, May 23, 1992 (W) (E) Patrick Tyler, A Great Wall, pp 356-371 (M) (R) Beschloss & Talbott, At the Highest Levels, pp 442-464 (M) (R) Jon Western, Selling Intervention and War, pp 133-174 (P) (R) Denis Ross, Statecraft, pp 48-55 (M) (R) Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land, pp 191-234 (P) (R) Trita Parsi, Treacherous Alliance, pp 151-156 (M) (R) OPTIONAL Tyler, A GREAT WALL, 343-379 (was in Spring 08) (R) Mary E Stuckey, “Competing Foreign Policy Visions: Rhetorical Hybrids After the Cold War,” Western Journal of Communication, Summer, 1995, 59(3) (Steve, GET this article through Iliiad) Jason A Edwards and Joseph M Valenzano III, “Bill Clinton’s “new partnership” anecdote : Toward a post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric,” (E) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/doc_library/linguistics/wodakr/jlp_6_3.pdf Jon Western, “Sources of Humanitarian Intervention”, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, Spring 2002, 112-142 same as Jon Western, Selling Intervention and War, 133-174 (W) (E) Defense Strategy for the 1990s, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/naarpr_Defense.pdf Security strategy for the 1990s - George Bush speech - national defense – transcript http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1079/is_n2148_v89/ai_7843333/print?tag=artBody;col1 Stanley Hoffmann, Bush Abroad, NYRB, Volume 39, Number 18 · November 5, 1992 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2766 (E-was in PS-46) Michael Mandelbaum, The Bush Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs (W) (E) Robert S Ross, “The Bush Administration: The Origins of Engagement”, in Ramon H Myers et al., eds., Making China Policy, pp.21-22, 30-44 (R) 6|Page Since Last time we taught this course: President George H.W Bush, “Toward a New World Order”, Presidential Address before Joint Session of Congress, September 11, 1990 (skim) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toward_a_New_World_Order Joseph Nye, “What New World Order,” Foreign Affairs, Spring 1992 Class Four: (February 17) CLINTON AND THE QUESTION OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION (The Clinton Doctrine) Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp 51-93, 95-112 (P) (R) Remarks of Anthony Lake, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, “From Containment to Enlargement”, September 21, 1993 (W) (E) Samantha Power, “A Problem From Hell”, America and the Age of Genocide, pp 293-389 (next year –M) (R) John R Bolton, “Wrong Turn in Somalia”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, January/February 1994, 56-66 (W) (E) Ivo H Daalder, Getting From Dayton, The Making of America’s Bosnia Policy, pp 5-36 (P) (R) Robert W Tucker & David C Hendrickson, America and Bosnia, The National Interest, Fall 1993, 14-23 (W) (E) VIDEO Black Hawk Down (stream video) Larry Chin, "Black Hawk Down" : Hollywood drags bloody corpse of truth across movie screens, Online Journal, Jan 2002 www.onlinejournal.com http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/BHDchin.html (E) OPTIONAL Michael Mandelbaum, “Foreign Policy as Social Work”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, January/February 1996, 79-94 (W) (E) The Clinton Administration's Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/NSC/html/documents/NSCDoc1.html A NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF ENGAGEMENT AND ENLARGEMENTTHE WHITE HOUSE, FEBRUARY 1995 (full text of the Clinton Doctrine) (W) (E) http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nss/nss-95.pdf 1996 National Security Strategy (1996) 7|Page A NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY FOR A NEW CENTURY THE WHITE HOUSE, OCTOBER 1998 http://www.fas.org/man/docs/nssr-98.pdf A NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY FOR A GLOBAL AGE, December 2000 Colin L Powell, With Joseph E Persico, MY AMERICA JOURNEY, 558-591 (R) Peter Maass, Paying for the Powell Doctrine, Dissent, winter 2002 (E) William Ferroggiaro, Editor, The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction, National Security Archive, August 20, 2001 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/index.html (E) Samantha Power, Bystanders to Genocide, Atlantic Monthly, September 2001 (W) (E) Morris Morley and Chris McGillion, “’Disobedient’ Generals and the Politics of Recommendation: The Clinton Administration and Haiti”, in Demetrios James Caraley, ed.) THE NEW AMERICAN INTERNATIONALISM, pp 113-134 (W) Madeleine K Albright, Anthony Lake, Lieutenant General Leslie Clark, The Clinton Administration’s Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations: Executive Summary http://www.ibiblio.org/jwsnyder/wisdom/DISV5N20.PDF U.S Department of State Dispatch, 1995 May 16, 1994 • Volume 5, Number 20 (E) J William Snyder, Jr., "Command" versus "Operational Control": A Critical Review of PDD-25 OR http://www.ibiblio.org/jwsnyder/wisdom/pdd25.html#ENDBACK3 1995 (E) Class Five: (February 24) RUSSIA, NATO EXPANSION AND CLINTONIAN BISMARCKISM (Clinton’s Bismarckian Diplomacy) Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp 113-125 (P) (R) Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand, A Memoir of a Presidential Diplomacy, pp 51-168 (P) (R) Jane Perlez, “Blunt Reason for Enlarging NATO: Curbs on Germany”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 7, 1997 (W) (E) Strobe Talbott, “Why NATO Should Grow”, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, August 10, 1995 (W) (E) George F Kennan, “A Fateful Error,” New York Times, 2/5/1997 (W) (E) Benjamin Schwarz, “NATO Enlargement and the Inevitable Costs of the American Empire”, in Ted Galen Carpenter and Barbara Conry, eds., NATO ENLARGEMENT, 71-83 (M) (R) Josef Joffe, “How America Does It”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, September/October 1997, 13-27 (W) (E) (M) OPTIONAL Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz, American Hegemony: Without an Enemy, Foreign Policy, No 92 (Autumn, 1993) (W) (E) JSTOR: American Hegemony: Without an Enemy (E) Paul E Gallis, NATO: Congress Addresses Expansion of the Alliance, http://www.fas.org/man/crs/crs1.htm (E) 8|Page ALISON MITCHELL, Clinton Girding for Stiff Debate on NATO Issue, NYT, May 27, 1997 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9C05EFD9163AF934A15756C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print (E) 9|Page Class Six: (March 3) BOSNIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp 125-135 (P) (R) Samantha Power, “A Problem From Hell”, America and the Age of Genocide, pp 416-441 (R) (M) Ivo H Daalder, Getting From Dayton, The Making of America’s Bosnia Policy, pp 79-80, 90-95, 106-138 (P) (R) Richard Holbrooke, To End a War, pp 232-235, 280-312, 358-369 (M) (R) Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land, pp 236-268 (P) (R) Anthony Lake, “Confronting Backlash States”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, March/April 1994, 45-55 (W) (E) Zbigniew Brzezinski , Brent Scowcroft and Richard Murphy, “Differentiated Containment”, FOREIGN AFFARIS, May/June 1997 (W) (E) OPTIONAL Maynard Glitman, US Policy in Bosnia: Rethinking a Flawed Approach, Survival, 38(4) winter 1996-97 (E) Barbara Conry, “America’s Misguided Policy of Dual Containment in the Persian Gulf”, CATO FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFING, no 33, 1994 (W) (E) 10 | P a g e Class Seven: (March 10) CHINA, NORTH KOREA, THE WORLD ECONOMY AND POLITICS OF FOREIGN POLICY Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp 93-95, 133-177 (P) (R) David Sanger, The Inheritance, 297-302 (P) (R) Patrick Tyler, A Great Wall, pp 383-416 (M) (R) (T: how many copies does Frost have??) David Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams, pp 46-55 (M) (E) (R) Robert S Greenberger, “Dateline Capitol Hill: The New Majority’s Foreign Policy”, FOREIGN POLICY, Winter 1995/1996, 159-169 (W) (E) Robert W Tucker, “The Future of a Contradiction”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Spring 1996, 20-27 (W) (E) William Kristol and Robert Kagan, “Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, July/August 1996, 18-32 (W) (E) Alan Tonelson, "Globalization and Trade: The Need for Debate," Current (History??), No 399, January 1998 (E) OPTIONAL Robert W Tucker, “The Prior Question”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Summer 1995, 108-112 (W) (E) Douglas Brinkley, “Democratic Enlargement: The Clinton Doctrine”, FOREIGN POLICY, Spring 1997, 111-127 (W) (E) Spring Recess, March 13-21 (Saturday-Sunday) 11 | P a g e Class Eight: (March 24) CLINTON’S DIPLOMATIC END GAME Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp pp 178-279 (P) (R) Elaine Sciolino and Ethan Bronner, “How a President Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War”, NEW YORK TIMES, April 18, 1999 (W) (E) Talbott, The Russia Hand, pp 251-268, 298-349, 376-394 (P) (R) MICHAEL J GLENNON, How War Left the Law Behind, November 21, 2002, New York Times, 11/21/2002 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E1DA1739F932A15752C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print (W) (E) Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land, pp 268-315 (P) (R Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, “Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors”, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, August 9, 2001 (W) (E) Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace, pp 3-5, 10-13, 748-758, 801-805 (M) (R) Samuel Berger, “A Foreign Policy for the Global Age”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, November/ December 2000, 79 (6) (W) (E) OPTIONAL Selections by Henry A Kissinger and Michael Walzer, in William Joseph Buckley, eds., KOSOVO, 293296, 302-305, 333-335 (R) Michael Mandelbaum, “A Perfect Failure, NATO’S War Against Yugoslavia”, September/October 1999, 2-8 (W) (E) FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Danner, Mark, Marooned in the Cold War, or Marooned in the Cold War, World Policy Journal, Fall 1997, Vol 14, Issue (W) (E) Ivo H Daalder, Michael E O'Hanlon, Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo - Google Books Result Daalder and O'Hanlon conclude that the crisis holds important diplomatic and military lessons that must be learned so that others in the future might avoid (ORDERED for FROST!!! (R) Ivo H Daalder, Michael E O'Hanlon, Unlearning the Lessons of Kosovo, Foreign Policy, Fall 1999 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/Ning/archive/archive/116/unlearningkosovo.pdf (E) Ronald Paris, Kosovo and the Metaphor War, Political Science Quarterly, 117(3) 2002 (E) 12 | P a g e Timothy W Crawford, Pivotal Deterrence and the Kosovo War: Why the Holbrooke Agreement Failed, Political Science Quarterly, 116(4) 2001-02 (E) Madeleine Albright, MADAME SECRETARY, ch 23 and 24 (R) David Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams, pp 55-63 (R) Stephen M Walt, “Two Cheers for Clinton’s Foreign Policy”, Foreign Affairs, Mar/Apr 2000, pp 63-79 (W) Josef Joffe, Clinton's World: Purpose, Policy, and Weltanschauung The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2001 (W) (E-was in PS-46) Josef Joffe, Uberpower, Norton, 2006, chapter (R) Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol, and others, open letter to President William Clinton warning that the policy of containing Iraq is "dangerously inadequate " January 26, 1998 (W) (E) Bill Clinton, “The Cost of Action Most be Weighed Against the Price of Inaction ,” December 16, 1998 (W) (E) Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 11, 2001 (New York: Penguin, 2004), prologue, chapter 30, chapter31, chapter32 [each is a separate adobe acrobat file] Film/Video Wag the Dog (streamed) 13 | P a g e Class Nine: (March 31) THE POLITICS OF DIPLOMACY 2000, AND THE TRANSITION TO GEORGE W BUSH Derek Chollet & James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars, pp 279-305 (P) Condoleezza Rice, “Promoting the National Interest”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, January/February 2000, 45-62 (W) (E) Robert Kagan & William Kristol, eds., Present Dangers, pp 3-24, 145-174, 221-240 (R) (M) Ivo Daalder & James M Lindsay, America Unbound, The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, pp 17-61 (P) (R) Josef Joffe, “Who’s Afraid of Mr Big?”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Summer 2001, 43-52 (W) (E) “George Bush’s Revolution”, THE ECONOMIST, May 3, 2001 (W) (E) Bill Keller, “The World According to Powell”, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, November 25, 2001, 61-67, 74, 90, 92 (W) (E) William Kristol and Robert Kagan, “Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy”, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, July/August 1996, 18-32 (W) (E) OPTIONAL Robert Kagan, “The Benevolent Empire,” Foreign Policy (Summer 1998), pp 24-35.(E) Andrew J Bacevich, “Different Drummers, Same Drum”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Summer 2001, 67-77 (W) (E) Michael Beschloss, “The End of Imperial Presidency,” New York Times, December 18, 2000 (W) (E) Ronnie Dugger, “Ronald Reagan and the Imperial Presidency,” Nation, November 1, 1980 (W) (E) John Yoo, “How the Presidency Regained Its Balance,” New York Times, September 17, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/opinion/17yoo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print (E) Editorial, “Mr Cheney's Imperial Presidency,” New York Times, December 15, 2005 (W) (E) Wolfensberger, Donald R., “THE RETURN OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY?” Wilson Quarterly, spring 2002, Vol 26, Issue (W) (E) James Traub, W’s World, New York Times, January 14, 2001 (W) (E) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9B0CEED6153AF937A25752C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print (E) 14 | P a g e Since Spring 2010 William J Clinton, A National Security Strategy for a Global Age, December 2000, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/national/nss-0012.pdf Class Ten: (April 7) GEORGE W BUSH, EARLY DIPLOMACY AND INITIAL RESPONSES TO 9/11 Bush’s “NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” – excerpts, September 20, 2002 (W) (E) The National Security Strategy of the United States of America ( September 2002) )(entire text) (OPTIONAL) (W) Ivo Daalder & James M Lindsay, America Unbound, The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, pp 62-115 (P) (R) “After September 11: A Conversation”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Thanksgiving 2001, 66-96 (W) (M) (E) Micha L Sifry & Christopher Cerf, eds The Iraq War Reader, pp 215-224, 238-240 (M) R) David Lampton, “Small Mercies, China and America after 9/11”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, winter 2001-2002, 106-113 (W) (E) OPTIONAL Gary Sick, Better for business: Republican vice-presidential nominee has opposed unilateral sanctions, August 3, 2000 http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2000/August/Cheney/ (W) (E) Mann, James, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet, 2004 Excellent and very readable history of the rise of the thought and power of the conservative and neo-conservative foreign policy principals within the Bush Administration (R) John P Burke, “The Contemporary Presidency: Condeleezza Rice as NSC Advisor: A Case Study of the Honest Broker Role,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (September 2005), pp 554-575 (E) Michael Elliot and Massimo Calabresi, "Is Condi the Problem? As Critics Accuse the Bush Team of Bungling the Fight Against Terrorism, Time Takes an Inside Look at the Role Played by the President's National Security Advisor," Time, April 5, 2004 E) Condeleeza Rice continues to be an enigma and appears to have a very difficult time coordinating the national security process and the principal officials within the Bush Adm Although not much is known of her management role, it appears to be relatively incompetent compared to her mentor, Brent Scrowcroft Joseph Lelyveld, “The Good Soldier,” New York Review of Books (November 2, 2006) E) Dan Plesh and Richard Norton-Taylor, "Straw, Powell Had Serious Doubts Over Their Iraqi Weapons Claims," Guardian, May 31, 2003 E) Highly controversial secret transcripts of a meeting between UK Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, and his US counterpart, Colin Powell have revealed that both shared serious doubts about the quality of intelligence on Iraq's banned weapons program 15 | P a g e Elizabeth Drew, "The Neocons in Power," The New York Review of Books, June 12, 2003 E) Drew provides investigative and inside information on the rise of the neoconservatives to power and within the Bush Administration "Neocon 101," The Christian Science Monitor E) Provides an overview of the basic views, figures, events, think tanks, documents and periodicals on neoconservatives Class Eleven: (April 14) THE ORIGINS OF THE IRAQ WAR Ivo Daalder & James M Lindsay, America Unbound, The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, pp 116-144 (P) (R) Micha L Sifry & Christopher Cerf, eds The Iraq War Reader, pp 243-265, 268-277, 295-300, 307-308, 323-318 (M) (R) Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, pp 148-172, 179-183, 220-232, 247-252, 269-273, 288-300, 307-321 (M) (R) Mark Danner, “The Moment has Come to Get Rid of Saddam,” OR “The Moment has Come to Get Rid of Saddam,” New York Review of Books, November 8, 2007 (W) (E) Jon Western, Selling Intervention and War, pp 189-219 (P) (R) Denis Ross, Statecraft, pp 100-125 (M) (R) VIDEO Frontline, The War Behind Closed Doors, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/view/ Frontline, Bush War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/ Michael Kirk, “PBS Frontline: 'Bush's War', Washington Post, March 26, 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/discussion/2008/03/16/DI2008031602418_pf.html (E) OPTIONAL James A Paul, "Oil in Iraq: the heart of the Crisis," Global Policy Forum, December, 2002 (E) The Brookings Institution, "How Much Oil Does Iraq Have?" Iraq Memo #16, May 12, 2003 by Gal Luft, Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) E) 16 | P a g e 'Energy, Diplomacy and National Security' TESTIMONY AS DELIVERED BY FRANK J GAFFNEY, JR President, The Center for Security Policy BEFORE THE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE, 20 June 2002 Washington, D.C E) "Another Motive for Iraq War: Stabilizing Oil Market," Hartford Courant, 12 August 2003 E) NICHOLAS LEMANN, "The Next World Order: The Bush Administration may have a brandnew doctrine of power." (April 1, 2002) (W) (E) Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, "Cheney's Long Path to War," Newsweek, November 17, 2003 Investigative journalism on Cheney's behind the scenes but critical role to war (W) (E) President Bush, "West Point Address," (June 1, 2002) (W) (E) Bush’s “NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” – excerpts, September 20, 2002 (W) (E) THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT (authorized edition) 198-214; 256-265 (W) (R) Elizabeth Drew, "The Neocons in Power," The New York Review of Books, June 12, 2003.Drew provides investigative and inside information on the rise of the neoconservatives to power and within the Bush Administration Link: "The Neocons in Power," The New York Review of Books (June 12, 2003), by Elizabeth Drew U.S Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N Security Council (VIDEO (E) any of the links http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB234/index.htm http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/vp01.cfm?outfit=pmt&folder=10&paper=336 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html# John Gershman, Remaking Policy in Asia?, Foreign Policy in Focus, November 1, 2002 (E) http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/2774 http://www.fpif.org/pdf/papers/SRasia.pdf Nicholas Lemann, “The War on What? The White House and the Debate about whom to Fight Next,” The New Yorker, September 16, 2002 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/lemann.htm (E) James A Baker, The Case for Military Action, Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2003 (W) (E) Goldsmith, Full advice from Attorney General on legality of Iraq war, March 7, 2003 (W) (E) Jonathan Chait, “Power Strip – The Security Council Myth,” New Republic, March 31, 2003 (W) (E) Since Spring 2010 17 | P a g e James Steinberg, “The Bush Foreign Policy Revolution, “New Perspectives Quarterly, Summer 2003 http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/steinberg/20030801.htm John Lewis Gaddis, “Grand Strategy in the Second Term,” Foreign Affairs (Jan/ 2005), 2-15 Charles Krauthammer, “The Bush Doctrine: ABM, Kyoto, and the New American Unilateralism” Weekly Standard, June 2001 Josef Joffe, “A Warning from Putin and Schroder” New York Times, June 20, 2000 18 | P a g e Class Twelve: (April 21) BUSH’S DIPLOMACY AND THE “AXIS OF EVIL” AFTER THE INVASION OF IRAQ David C Hendrickson and Robert W Tucker, “Revisions in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War,” OR “Revisions in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War Survival 47(2) 2005 (W) (E) Peter D Feaver, “Anatomy of the Surge”, Commentary, April 2008, pp 24-28 (E) Aaron David Miller, The Much Too Promised Land, pp 334-345 (P) (R) Michael J Mazarr, “The Long Road to Pyongyang”, Foreign Affairs, Sep/Oct 2007 (E) David E Sanger, The Inheritance, pp.2-26, 39-171, 232-266 (P) (R) OPTIONAL William G Howell and Jon C Pevehouse, "When Congress Stops Wars", OR When Congress Stops Wars, Foreign Affairs, Sep/Oct 2007, Vol 86, Issue (W) (E) Ronald Steel, An Iraq Syndrome?, OR An Iraq Syndrome?, Survival, Volume 49 Issue 2007 (W) (E) Jefrey Record, Use and Abuse of History – Munich, Vietnam and Iraq, OR Use and Abuse of History – Munich, Vietnam and Iraq, Survival, Volume 49 Issue 2007 (W (E) Michael Abramowitz, Writers Posit That Foreign Policy Could Be a Bush Legacy Washington Post, September 15, 2008 (E) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402034.html Ignatius, David “An F For Bush’s Iran Policy.” The Washington Post, 30 November 2008 16 December 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802369.html (E) Sean Wilentz, THE WORST PRESIDENT in HISTORY?, Rolling Stone, 5/4/2006, Issue 999 (W) (E) Kathleen Christison, “George W Bush and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict”, Journal of Palestine Studies, winter 2004, 36-50 (W) (E?) Gerard Baker, “Does the United States Have a European Policy?”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, winter 2003/04 (W) (E?) Robert W Tucker, “Europe Challenged”, THE NATIONAL INTEREST, Summer, 2003, pp.145-147 (W) (E?) HELENE COOPER, C.J CHIVERS and CLIFFORD J LEVY, U.S Watched as a Squabble Turned Into a Showdown,” NYT, 8-18-08 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/washington/18diplo.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin (E) Vali Naar & Ray Takeyh, “The Costs of Containing Iran: Washington’s Misguided New Middle Eastern Policy”, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2008 (E) Barbara Slavin, “A Broken Engagement”, The National Interest, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 39-43 (E) Norman Podhoretz, “Stopping Iran Why the Case for Military Action still Stands”, Commentary, February 2008, pp 11-19 (E) 19 | P a g e Geoffrey Kemp, “Our Imaginary Foe”, OR , “Our Imaginary Foe”, Or , “Our Imaginary Foe”, The National Interest, May/June 2008, pp 30-35 (E) Stephen Biddle, “Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon”, Foreign Affairs, Mar/Apr 2006 (E) Since the last time we taught the course: Abuse of Power a Byproduct of Empire," Washington Post (May 12, 9004), by George Will Very powerful and critical article on the Bush Administration's foreign policy toward Iraq and engaging in the business of empire from an unusual source, George Will, a highly visible conservative columnist Thomas L McNaughter, “The Real Meaning of Military Transformation: Rethinking the Revolution,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 2007) Robert D Kagan, “Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas,” Atlantic Monthly (September 2006), pp 81-84 "Global Security Firms Fill in as Private Armies: 15,000 agents Patrol Violent Streets of Iraq," San Francisco Chronocle (March 28, 2004), by Robert Collier Describes the rise of PRIVATE SECURITY FIRMS being used in Iraq and throughout the world, an important phenomena in U.S foreign policy and global politics "Security Companies: Shadow Soldiers in Iraq." New York Times (April 19, 2004), by David Barstow "Tikrit Dispatch: Uncivil Military," The New Republic (March 1, 2004), by Joshua Hammer Shows the tense relations and conflict on the ground in Iraq WITHIN the U.S government, especially the civilians (through the Coaltion Provisional Authority) and the military "Multiple Combat Tours Strain a Third of Troops: Extended Duty Harms U.S Recruitment," International Herald Tribune (November 27-28, 2004), by Bryan Bender "Army Reserve Fast Becoming 'Broken' Force,' Baltimore Sun (January 5, 2005), by Tom Bowman "The Rise of the Shadow Warriors," Foreign Affairs (March/April 2004), by Jennifer D Kibbe Describes the increasing reliance and prominence of the U.S military's special forces for various missions around the world and its involvement with covert operations "The Hollow Army," The Atlantic Monthly (March 2004), by James Fallows The military is stretched to the breaking point and one more crisis could break it "A Citizen Check on War" Washington Post (November 16, 2003), by Janine Davidson One of my current ph.d students just got an op ed piece in the Washington Post on the role of the Reserves and the National Guard as part of the military Check it out Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care," New England Journal of Medicine (July 1, 2004), article "Over 100,000 Iraqis killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom," Asheville Global News (November 4-10, 2004), compiled by Patrick Byrne Sources: Al-jazeera, AP, BBC, Independent(UK), New York Times, and Reuters Interesting and controversial study But even if the numbers are half-correct Read Leslie Gelb and Richard Betts, “We’re Fighting Not to Lose,” Washington Post (January 14, 2007) Read Robert Kaiser, “Trapped by Hubris, Again,” Washington Post (January 14, 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202054.html 20 | P a g e Max Rodenbeck, “How Terrible Is It?” The New York Review of Books (November 30, 2006), pp 33-38 George Packer, “Knowing the Enemy: Can Social Scientists Redefine the “War on Terror”? The New Yorker (December 18, 2006), pp 61-69 Since Spring 2010 Charles Krauthammer, "Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World," 2004 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, February 10 2004 http://www.aei.org/publications/bookID.755/book_detail.asp Francis Fukuyama, The neoconservative moment The National Interest Summer 2004 Charles Krauthammer, In defense of democratic realism The National Interest Fall 2004 Patrick Buchanan, “Betrayed by Bush,” The Spectator, October 2004 http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator/spec396.html “In Cheney’s Words: The Administration Case for Removing Saddam Hussein,” New York Times, August 27, 2002 Richard Perle, “Why the West Must Strike First against Saddam Hussein” The Daily Telegraph, August 9, 2002 John Mersheimer and Stephen Walt, “Keeping Saddam Hussein in a Box,” New York Times, February 2, 2003 Brent Scowcroft, “Don't Attack Saddam,” Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2002 (W) Class Thirteen: (April 28) Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy: Part ONE Barack Obama, Renewing American Leadership, OR Renewing American Leadership, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007 (W) (E) Richard N Haass, The Age of Nonpolarity, What Will Follow U.S Dominance, OR The Age of Nonpolarity, What Will Follow U.S Dominance, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008 (W) (E) Robert M Gates, A Balanced Strategy, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2009 (W) (E) 21 | P a g e Newspapers/Journal articles HANDOUT (please pick up this “small” packet in the Political Science Outer Office – it on the big table/ you can’t miss it!!) OPTIONAL Peter Wehner, "Obama’s War,” OR Obama’s War, Commentary April 2008 (W) (E) Ivo H Daalder abd I.M Destler, In the Shadow of the Oval Office: The Next National Security Adviser , Foreign Affairs, 00157120, Jan/Feb2009, Vol 88, Issue OR http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail? vid=5&hid=5&sid=5f5d771a-26b9-46d4-9cfc1cbea8406de4%40sessionmgr2&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=35640157 (E) Stephen R Graubard, “A Broader Agenda: Beyond Bush-Era Foreign Policy: Beyond Bush-Era Foreign Policy,” OR http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=5&hid=5&sid=5f5d771a-26b9-46d4-9cfc 1cbea8406de4%40sessionmgr2&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=35640178 Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2009, Vol 88, Issue (E) ** E J Dionne Jr., Obama's Bush Doctrine , Washington Post, November 28, 2008 OR http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/27/AR2008112702048.html (E) Helene Cooper, “Foreign Advisors See Advantages of a Secretary Clinton in an Obama Administration,” OR http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16clinton.html?scp=8&sq=iran%20obama&st=cse New York Times, November15, 2008, December 16, 2008 (E) Michael R Gordon and Jeff Zeleny, “Obama Envisions New Iran Approach” OR http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/us/politics/02obama.html?scp=1&sq=obama%20iran&st=cse, New York Times, November 2, 2007 (E) Condoleezza Rice, Rethinking the National Interest, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008, Vol 87, Issue (W) (E) Robert Kagan, “The September 12 paradigm – America, the World, and George W Bush,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2008 (E-Steve/not sure if you did this one) Pavel: Do we need this one? Since Fall 09 The Petraeus Doctrine, Andrew J Bacevich, Atlantic Monthly, October 2008 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/petraeus-doctrine (E-Steve/New) Building on Common Ground with Russia, Henry A Kissinger and George P Shultz, Washington Post, October 8, 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702439.html (E-Steve/New) Wortzel, Larry M “North Korea and Failed Diplomacy.” Spring 2009 pp 98-105 (E-Steve/New) T.J Pempel “How Bush Bungled Asia”, Pacific Review (Dec 2008), 547-81 (E-Steve/New) 22 | P a g e Robert Sutter “The Obama Administration and US Policy in Asia”, Contemporary Southeast Asia 31:2 (2009), 189216 (E-Steve/New) Yoichi Funabashi “Keeping Up With Asia: America and the New Balance of Power”, Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct 2008), 110-24 (E-Steve/New) Richard Holbrooke, The Next President: Mastering a Daunting Agenda, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2008 (E) Listen to this essay http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=16968 (E) Class Fourteen: (May 5) Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy: PART TWO Newspapers/Journal articles HANDOUT (Will be distributed to you in our class on April 28) Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Oslo City Hall, December 10, 2009 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-presidentacceptance-nobel-peace-prize Josef Joffe, Who Is This Guy? President Obama, One year On, American Interest, JanuaryFebruary 2010 http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=725 Since the last time we taught this course: BY AARON DAVID MILLER, The False Religion of Mideast Peace, And why I'm no longer a believer | MAY/JUNE 2010 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/19/the_false_religion_of_mideast_peace? print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full Brzezinski, From Hope to Audacity, Foreign Affairs January 2010 A term paper essay of approximately twenty pages will be due on Friday, May 14, on approximately the following topic: “American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era has been conducted by FOUR administrations To what extent you see overall continuities in the diplomatic ends and means of these FOUR administrations? To what extent you see significant differences among them? To what you attribute these similarities/differences?” 23 | P a g e A couple of potentially useful articles: Josef Joffe, Clinton’s World: Purpose, Policy, and Weltanschauung, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/washington_quarterly/v024/24.1joffe.html Brian C Schmidt and Michael C Williams, The Bush Doctrine and the Iraq War: Neoconservatives Versus Realists, Security Studies, 17: 191–220, 2008 http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/394761 794088841.pdf For Dr M’s personal use (ignore!!!!!) http://www.google.com/search? q=The+Bush+Doctrine+and+the+Iraq+War: +Neoconservatives+versus+Realists&hl=en&sa=G&source=univ&tbs=bks:1&tbo=u&ei=O9jISCSEIP48AatpOmFBw&oi=book_group&ct=title&cad=bottom3results&resnum=11&ved=0CDQQsAMwCg http://openpdf.com/ebook/neoconservative-pdf.html http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006921 http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/api/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=565&pageID=2 http://www.nationalinterest.org/PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=19672 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/cron.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=The+Bush+Doctrine+and+the+Iraq+War %3A+Neoconservatives+versus+Realists&btnG=Google+Search 24 | P a g e ... and War, pp 189 -219 (P) (R) Denis Ross, Statecraft, pp 100-125 (M) (R) VIDEO Frontline, The War Behind Closed Doors, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/view/ Frontline, Bush War. .. the New American Unilateralism” Weekly Standard, June 2001 Josef Joffe, “A Warning from Putin and Schroder” New York Times, June 20, 2000 18 | P a g e Class Twelve: (April 21) BUSH’S DIPLOMACY. .. Jason A Edwards and Joseph M Valenzano III, “Bill Clinton’s “new partnership” anecdote : Toward a post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric,” (E) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/doc_library/linguistics/wodakr/jlp_6_3.pdf