Draft Syllabus for the Course: Domestic Politics & American Foreign Polic

School of Advanced International & Area Studies

East China Normal University

Spring Semester 2008

Professor Allen C. Lynch (University of Virginia)

        This course analyzes the relationship between U.S. domestic and U.S. foreign policy from several perspectives: conceptual, historical and topical.

Required Books

Louis Henkin, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution

        James M. McCormick & Eugene R. Wittkopf, eds., Domestic Sources of American.     Foreign Policy (Fifth edition).

Jon Western, Selling Intervention and War

Tony Smith, America’s Mission

Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack

Course Schedule

Historical Patterns in American Foreign Policy
The Political Culture of American Foreign Policy
Constitutional Foundations of American Foreign Policy
Congress versus the President
The War Power
Public Opinion and Interest Groups
Key Historical Cases:
Woodrow Wilson and the Failure of the League of Nations Covenant in the Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Road to U.S. Involvement in the Second World War
Key Historical Cases:
U.S. Non-Intervention in Vietnam, 1954
U.S. Military Escalation in Vietnam, 1965
Multilateralism and Unilateralism During the Clinton Administration, 1993-2000
The Road to War in Iraq, 1998-2003