Course description

The course examines the foreign policy culture and policy choices associated with the great powers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It offers ways to answer such questions as the following: How is foreign policy constructed and conducted? How do the great powers cope with an ever-changing international order, and are they able to bend and shape it in a way that satisfies them? How important is it to consider how other states may be affected by these changes? How do great powers choose between alternatives? Are there things that they can do and others that they cannot? Why is it so? Do these limitations apply only to the weak who suffer what they must or do they also apply to the strong? What goals do given states seek to achieve with their foreign policy, and how can we know?

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