POL 602 Seminar in Comparative Foreign Policy
This will be a discussion-oriented seminar focused on exploring variation in foreign policy objectives, behavior, and outcomes across countries and across time. How do domestic political institutions and actors affect the foreign policy process? Do national cultures and diplomatic styles affect interstate negotiations? What explains governments' divergent responses to security threats? Class readings will cover analytical tools of foreign policy analysis as well as major historical cases of foreign policy decisionmaking on issues of war, peace, and international cooperation and organization.