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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.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS GOVT Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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