321 HST History of American Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century Karen A.J. Miller Summer 2007 Room 379 O'Dowd; Telephone [phone] [e-mail] Office hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays noon-1:30 Course overview: This will be a course on American foreign policy making, with the greatest emphasis on questions of national security. We will examine the rise of American military power and how it was exercised. This will include an evaluation of the interaction between American economic power and the projection of military force. This examination of the rise of American power will be viewed in the framework of changing international and domestic law. Course goals and objectives: Students will develop an understanding of the basic process of making and implementing American security policy. Special emphasis will be placed on the emergence of the United States as a global power in the twentieth century and the use of international organizations as a mechanism for foreign policy implementation. Required reading: Thomas Paterson, et.al., American Foreign Relations: A History vol. 2, 6th ed. (ISBN 0-61837073-0) Articles accessed through JSTOR (You will need a valid OU student card.) Newspaper coverage from the New York Times (You will need a valid OU student card.) Articles posted on the course website in PDF format Course policies and procedures: The primary instructional methods used in this course are lecture, reading, and writing assignments. Students are expected to critically assess the material presented. Students are expected to complete reading assignments by the date listed in the syllabus and be prepared to consider any discrepancies between the lecture and the accounts in the required reading. Students should come to class on time. They should listen to lectures actively, considering larger implications of statements made by the instructor and making links to the reading and writing assignments. Absences should be rare. This course has a web site located at the OU Courseweb. To find it, start from the Oakland University home page (www4.oakland.edu). Go to the Information Technology page. Click on OU Course Web. Click on HST 321. The required book has been ordered through the OU Bookstore and Textbook Outlet. Required articles can be found on JSTOR, Project Muse, New York Times Historical, or as PDF files in the files section of the course web page. You will need to validate your ID card at the library to use JSTOR and New York Times Historical. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat to read the PDF files. Grades will be based on the student's ability to examine and explain historical events. This will
place emphasis on both clarity and logical development in class discussion and writing assignments. Midterm (worth 30% of the course grade) Students will take an in-class midterm examination. It will be in essay format Final exam (worth 40% of course grade) Students will take an in-class final examination. It will be in an essay format. Failure to take the midterm or final will result in a 0.0 for the course. Homework assignments (collectively worth 30% of the course grade) On four occasions the instructor will assign a homework problem. They will all require written, typed responses of approximately 750-1000 words; some may be based on internet research, most will be based on the required reading assignments. Students should submit the homework assignments in hard copy format. However, if faced with unusual circumstances (such as a printer disaster, car refusing to start, or illness) students may submit the homework as an e-mail attachment. The instructor will accept late homework assignments; however, after 24 hours one letter grade will be dropped for every day late. (In other words, a paper due on Monday that would have earned an A-, will earn a B- if submitted on Wednesday, and a C- if submitted on Thursday.) Failure to submit any of the homework assignments will result in a 0.0 for the course. Electronic communications Turn off all cell phones, pagers, and other such communications devices before class begins. If your life is such that you must be on call 24/7, sit beside the door and turn on the mute; discretely leave the classroom to answer the call. It is an act of profound rudeness to interrupt class for personal or business phone calls. If you are bored, it would be far better to drop the course and spend more time with your friends and paramours than to sit in a dim classroom and converse with them through instant messaging. Your personal relationships will benefit from a more in-depth form of interpersonal communication and I will not waste my energies suppressing the desire to kill you. I have little sympathy or forgiveness for those who break these rules. Plagiarism This is a serious breach of academic honesty. It consists of using others' ideas or words without proper citation. Any such offense will be dealt with according to the Academic Conduct Policy, which is described in the University Catalog. Penalties can include dismissal from the university.
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The Emergence American Imperialism (The Sinking of the Maine) Paterson, chapter 1 Situation Full of Danger, NYT, February 17, 1898. Managing the American Empire (The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine) Paterson, chapter 2 JSTOR: Jacob H. Hollander, The Convention of 1907 between the United States and the Dominican Republic, The American Journal of International Law 1 (April 1907): 287-296. JSTOR: Proclamation of the Military Occupation of Santo Domingo by the United States, The American Journal of International Law 11, Supplement: Official Documents (April 1917): 94-96. American Neutrality during World War I (The Lusitania Crisis) Paterson, chapter 3 Sails, Undisturbed by German Warning, NYT, May 2, 1915. Sinking Justified Says Dr. Dernberg, NYT, May 9, 1915. Uploaded file: Americanism and the Foreign-Born, a speech by Woodrow Wilson, May 10, 1915. Homework due American Participation in World War I (The League of Nations Debates) JSTOR: Lindsay Rogers, American Government and Politics, The American Political Science Review 13 (May 1919): 251-263. JSTOR: James E. Hewes, Jr., Henry Cabot Lodge and the League of Nations, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 114 (August 20, 1970): 245-255. Uploaded file: The Points, Fourteen a speech by Woodrow Wilson, January 8, 1918. Rebuilding the World Economy after World War I (The Dawes Plan) Paterson, chapter 4 JSTOR: Frank Costigliola, The United States and the Reconstruction of Germany in the 1920s, Business History Review 50 (Winter 1976): 477502. JSTOR: Richard N. Cooper, Fettered to Gold? Economic Policy in the Interwar Period, Journal of Economic Literature 30 (December 1992): 2128.
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The Emerging European Crisis of the 1930s (Responding to German Aggression) JSTOR: American Institute of Public Opinion Surveys, 1938-1939, The Public Opinion Quarterly 3 (October 1939): 581-607. JSTOR: Peter Bell, The Foreign Office and the 1939 Royal Visit to America: Courting the USA in an Era of Isolationism, Journal of Contemporary History 37 (October 2002): 599-616. Uploaded file: Franklin Roosevelts Quarantine Speech, October 5, 1937 Homework due Transforming Hemispheric Relations (The Good Neighbor Policy) Paterson, chapter 5 JSTOR: John M. Matthews, Roosevelts Latin-American Policy, The American Political Science Review 29 (October 1935): 805-820. JSTOR: E. David Cronon, Interpreting the New Good Neighbor Policy: The Cuban Crisis of 1933, The Hispanic American Historical Review 39 (November 1959): 538-567. The Emerging Crisis with Japan (The Panay Incident) Bombing of Gunboat Deliberate, Assert Observers after Rescue, NYT, 14, 1937. U.S. Gunboat Sails Down the Yangtze, NYT, December 5, 1938. Anti-Fascist Pacts Gain in U.S. Favor, NYT, December 25, 1938. JSTOR: Alfred Max, Against a Far Eastern Munich, Pacific Affairs 12 (June 1939): 129-137. JSTOR: John W. Masland, American Attitudes toward Japan, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 215 (May 1941): 160165. Midterm Examination Forming the Grand Alliance of World War II (The Atlantic Charter) Paterson, chapter 6 JSTOR: John Charmley, Churchill and the American Alliance, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 11 (2001): 353-371. JSTOR: Mark M. Lowenthal, Roosevelt and the Coming of the War: The Search for United States Policy, 1937-1942, Journal of Contemporary History16 (July 1981): 413-440. Uploaded file: Franklin Roosevelts Message to Congress on the Atlantic Charter, August 21, 1941.
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Becoming a Superpower (The Yalta Conference) Kenneth P. Werrell, The Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II: Costs and Accomplishments, The Journal of American History 73 1986): 702-713. Kenneth O. McCreedy, Planning the Peace: Operation Eclipse and the Occupation of Germany, The Journal of Military History 65 (July 2001): 713-739. Uploaded file: Franklin Roosevelts Address before Congress on the Yalta Conference, March 1, 1945. The Emergence of the Cold War (The Formation of NATO) Paterson, chapter 7 JSTOR: Owen J. Roberts, What Should Follow from NATO? Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 288 (June 1953): 134139. JSTOR: Raymond H. Dawson, What Kind of NATO Nuclear Force? Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 351 (January 1964): 30-39. Uploaded file: Harry Trumans Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947 The Cold War in Asia (The Korean Intervention) Paterson, chapter 8 JSTOR: Norman Graebner, The President as Commander in Chief: A Study in Power, The Journal of Military History 57 (January 1993): 111-132. JSTOR: David T. Fautua, The Long Pull Army: NSC 68, the Korean War, and the Creation of the Cold War U.S. Army, The Journal of Military History 61 (January 1997): 93-120. Technology and the Cold War (The U-2 Incident) JSTOR: Urban Whitaker, Is the United States a Second Rate Power? The Western Political Quarterly 11 (June 1958): 195-208. JSTOR: James A. Nathan, A Fragile Dtente: The U-2 Incident Re-examined, Military Affairs 39 (October 1975): 97-104. Uploaded File: Dwight Eisenhowers Farewell Speech, January 17, 1961.
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Constraints of a Nuclear Strategy (The Cuban Missile Crisis) Paterson, chapter 9 JSTOR: Richard M. Pious, The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management, Political Science Quarterly 116 (Spring 2001): 81-105. JSTOR: Frank Costigliola, Kennedy, the European Allies, and the Failure to Consult, Political Science Quarterly 110 (Spring 1995): 105-123. Homework due The War in Vietnam (The Tet Offensive) Raiders Wiped Out after Six Hours; Vietcong Widen Attack on Cities, NYT, January 31, 1968. Enemy Artillery and Ground Force Assault Khesahn, NYT, February 5, 1968. JSTOR: Robert J. Graham, Vietnam: An Infantrymans View of Our Failure, Military Affairs 48 (July 1984): 133-139. JSTOR: William M. Hammond, The Press in Vietnam as Agent of Defeat: A Critical Examination, Reviews in American History 17 (June 1989): 312323. Dtente (Nixon in China) Paterson, chapter 10 Kissinger Visit Capped Two Year Effort, NYT, July 16, 1971. Nixon Will Visit China before Next May to Seek a Normalization of NYT, July 16, 1971. Statement Today by Nixon and Chou Will Define Ties, NYT, February 27, JSTOR: Jonathan D. Pollack, The Implications of Sino-American Normalization, International Security 3 (Spring 1979): 37-57.
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Emerging Crises in the Middle East (The Iranian Hostage Crisis) Paterson, chapter 11 JSTOR: Catherine V. Scott, Bound for Glory: The Hostage Crisis as Captivity Narrative in Iran, International Studies Quarterly 44 (March 2000): 177188. JSTOR: Rose McDermott, Prospect Theory in International Relations: The Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission, Political Psychology 13 (June 1992): 237-263. Homework due
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The Reagan Resurgence (The Iran-Contra Affair) JSTOR: Robert Parry and Peter Kornbluh, Iran-Contras Untold Story, Foreign Policy 72 (Autumn 1988): 3-30. JSTOR: Jonathan Marshall, Israel, the Contras, and the North Trial, Middle East Report 160 (September-October 1980): 34-38. The United States as a Hyperpower (The First Persian Gulf War) Paterson, chapter 12 JSTOR: Joe Stork, New Enemies for a New World Order: From Arc of Crisis to Global Intifada, Middle East Report 176 (May-June 1992): 28-34. JSTOR: Thomas Omestad, Why Bush Lost, Foreign Policy 89 (Winter 19921993): 70-81. Final Exam: 8:00 to 11:00 AMnote earlier time
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