LA 4127 - United States Foreign Policy

The history of American foreign relations concerns power, profit, security, politics, and ideology. This offering of US diplomatic history, covering selected topics from 1775 to the present, will explore competing interpretations of America146s hot and cold wars, periods of peace, isolation, and intervention. The course may focus, for example, on the rise and sometimes decline of US empire-building, from the American Revolution to the War of 1812, from the conquest of continent to the self-destruction of the Civil War, from the overseas expansion during the Spanish-American War to the status of global superpower after World War II. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion

3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits