Reading List
- Alan P. Dobson & Steve Marsh, U.S. foreign policy since 1945 (Routledge, 2000, paper, ISBN--0415172934), pp. 1-158.
- The Council on Foreign Relations (USA), America & the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics (W.W. Norton distributor, 2002, ISBN--0-87609-315-2), pp. 1-28, 43-298.
- Joseph S. Nye, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone (Oxford 2002, ISBN—0-19-515088-0), pp. 1-171.
Essays available on line:
Muravchik, “The New Gloomsayers”
Ikenberry, “The Illusions of Empire”
Postel & Drury, “Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neo-cons, and Iraq”
Lloyd, “Bush’s unlikely Bedfellows”
Lloyd, “The Return of Imperialism”
Lipshutz, “The Fall of the UN Republic and America's Reach for Imperium”
James K. Galbraith, “The Unbearable Costs of Empire”
Laura Secor, “That Sinking Feeling” (Review of Declinist Literature)
Graduate Students’ Supplemental List (Selections from the following books)
Michael Mandelbaum, The Ideas That Conquered the World
Charles A. Kupchan, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
Richard A. Falk, The Declining World Order: America’s Imperial Geopolitics
John J. Mearsheim, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire