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By the end of the course, the student:
- will have a confident understanding of the ideas, ideals, interests and strategies shaping US global politics since 1914;
- will be able to consider the interrelation between a range of actors, including states, politicians, institutions, interstate organizations, non-governmental organizations, and transnational movements;
- can reflect thoughtfully on the ways in which cultural, historical and political approaches to US global politics can be both highly complementary and in tension with one another;
- can move comfortably between theoretical discussions, historical examples, political and cultural analysis in discussing these issues.
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In this course, we will engage the complexities of the ways in which the United States has gone to work in the world since 1898, with an emphasis on the post-WWII period. A central concern of the course will be how political, cultural and historical approaches to world politics are both complementary and in tension with one another. Roughly following a chronological trajectory, the course will combine readings in political history, international relations theory and cultural studies. The course will not only expose students to multiple approaches to political history and international relations – and to relevant disciplines that touch on these – but ask you to develop your own selective, strategic synthesis of these as part of your final research project
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