Mandatory book reading (for 2424 and 4424):
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005; 9780195311983. Pp. 1-33, 69-146, 175-204.
Hunt, Michael H. and Steven I. Levine. Arc of Empire: America’s Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012; 978-1469613925. Pp. 10-119, 185-279.
McMahon, Robert. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003; 978-0192801784. Pp. 1-168.
Rabe, Stephen G. The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012; 978-0195333237. Pp. xv-xxxvii, 1-195.
Suri, Jeremi (ed.). American Foreign Relations since 1898: A Documentary Reader. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010; 978-1405184472. Pp. 7-234.