MVZ482 American foreign policy (selected issues)

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2013
Rozsah
2/2/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
prof. Ed Rhodes (přednášející), doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Oldřich Krpec, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Po 7. 10. 16:00–19:30 U42, Út 8. 10. 16:00–19:30 U42, St 9. 10. 16:00–19:30 U42, Čt 10. 10. 16:00–19:30 U42, Pá 11. 10. 12:00–15:30 U42
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  • Lecture I. Foreign Policy and the Fundamental Challenge of Preserving Liberal, Democratic, Republican Domestic Institutions: America's Founders and the Logic of Isolationism. (This lecture will explore the nature and internal demands of liberalism, democracy, and republican government, the concerns and assumptions of the authors of America's 1787 Constitution, and the logical imperatives for foreign policy derived by Washington, Hamilton, and most importantly John Quincy Adams. The logic is deeply "realist" and pessimistic in its core beliefs about human nature and political life, but for precisely these reasons concludes that traditional "realist" balance-of-power practices and the dominant system of international relations in Europe would, if they impinged on the United States, mean the end of liberal, democratic, republican political institutions in America.)
  • Lecture II. American National Identity in a Modern, Industrial World: the Logic of America's Participation on the World Stage. (This lecture investigates the challenge for American foreign policy posed by America's industrialization and by the consequent transformation American national "identity." The breakdown of American political institutions in the period from 1880 to 1900 compelled a re-thinking of the American system of government, and a shift to a state-centric understanding of a liberal, democratic, republic. In turn, this implied a dramatic re-thinking of the objectives and underlying logic of American foreign policy. Guided by the arguments of Progressives leaders and political theorists such as Theodore Roosevelt, the United States concluded that the internal challenges of maintaining national unity and national cohesion in the industrial era required a state apparatus and foreign policy that in form mimicked those of other great powers, and that preservation of internal order required that the United States not cede the world stage to non-liberal, non-democratic, non-republican powers.)
  • Lecture III. The Conundrum of Liberalism and the Problem of International Institutions: the Competing Logic of Wilson and Hughes. (As this lecture discusses, if the United States does participate as a "normal" great power on the world stage, then the question arises: what international institutions -- that is, what systems of governance and what patterns of international behavior -- should the United States support or seek to create. Two fundamentally different logics compete. The first -- the logic laid out by Woodrow Wilson -- emphasizes achieving a liberal outcome: to achieve international institutions maximally supportive of liberal, democratic, republics (a "World Safe for Democracy"), the United States should be willing to embrace processes that are non- (or even anti-) liberal, democratic, and republican. The second -- the logic laid out by Charles Evans Hughes -- emphasizes the fundamental importance of liberal, democratic, republican processes (a "Pathway of Peace"), and argues that stable, liberal international institutions can not be imposed from above or from outside, but must develop (or fail to develop) through a sustained organic process. Though played out initially on the American stage in the 1920s, this conundrum and the competing logics, remain at the core of American debates over foreign policy.)
  • Lecture IV. The Liberal, Democratic Republic as "Free World" Hegemon? The Conflicting Logical Imperatives of Liberal Realism. (As we explore in this lecture, all of the logical tensions inherent in designing a foreign policy consistent with the essence of a liberal, democratic, republic are brought into high relief by the collapse of a multipolar international system in the wake of World War II. The actual policies pursued by the United States reflect an inconsistent and at time incoherent mix of logics -- those, for example, of Franklin Roosevelt and Sumner Welles; of George Kennan; and of Dean Acheson and Paul Nitze -- rooted in different assumptions about human nature and political power.)
  • Lecture V. Speeding Up the End of History, and the Moral Dilemmas this Creates: Puzzling Through the Logic of George W. Bush and Barrack Obama. (This lecture examines the assumptions and logic of American foreign policy since 2001, considering the efforts of the Bush administration to create a transformed, post-Westphalian, post-"historic" world order, and the efforts of the Obama administration to define a justifiable logic for the steps to be taken, or to be eschewed, in this ongoing effort to create a world order which permits the survival of a liberal, democratic, American republic.)
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Angličtina
Informace učitele
CV http://policy.gmu.edu/tabid/86/default.aspx?uid=169
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