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Academic Year 2000/2001

Democracy and Foreign Policy
GOVT 104 FA

While the growing number of democracies in the post-Cold War world has been lauded by most observers, serious questions about the ability of democratic nations to formulate and implement reasoned and appropriate foreign policies remain. Some commentators contend that domestic processes such as public opinion, regular elections, and legislative oversight prevent democracies from coping with complicated and nuanced foreign policy challenges in the quick and circumspect manner required to protec t a nation's interest. On the other hand, these same internal forces may be a source of a democratic peace in which democratic nations rarely, if ever, go to war against each other. This course examines these and other issues related to the formulation of foreign policy in democratic nations. A major aspect of the course will include intensive discussions of case studies of major foreign policy decisions to apply and assess these competing views.

MAJOR READINGS

To be announced.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS GOVT    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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