Syllabus/achievement requirements

C= Literature marked with a C are to be found in an article compilation which can be bought from Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus.

You can search the articles in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system.

 

Abelson, Donald E. (2006). A Capitol Idea: Think Tanks & U.S. Foreign Policy. London: McGill-Queen's University Press. Chapter 3, pp. 97-109; 4, pp. 110-126; 7, pp. 163-181; and 8, pp. 182-200.  68 p. C

Bang, Guri (2011). "Signed but not Ratified: Limits to U.S. Participation in International Environmental Agreements", Review of Policy Research, 28(1): 65-81. 16p.

Bradford Jensen, J. Dennis P. Quinn and Stephen Weymoth (2013). "Global supply chains, currency underevaluation, and firm protectionist demands". National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper no. 19239. http://www.iadb.org/intal/intalcdi/PE/2013/12533.pdf 52p

Canes-Wrone, Brandice, William G. Howell and David E. Lewis (2008). "Toward a broader understanding of presidential power: A reevaluation of the Two Presidencies thesis." The Journal of Politics, 70 (1): 1-16. 16p.

Chang, H. (2010). "International Executive Agreements on Climate Change", Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 35(2): 337-371. 34 p.

DeSombre, Elizabeth (2011). "Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism in the Global Environment". In R. A. Axelrod, S. D. Vandeveer and D. L. Brownie (eds.), Institutions, Law and Policy, 3rd edition. Washington D. C. : CQ Press, pp. 192-212. 20p. C

Dobson, Alan P. and Steve Marsh (2006). U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945. London: Routledge, pp. 1-19. 19 p. C

DOCUMENTS: The Paris Accords. In R. J. McMahon (ed.), Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War, 2nd edition. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, pp. 565-569. 5 p. C

Fiorina, M. P., P. E. Peterson, B. Johnson and W. G. Mayer (2011). America's New Democracy, 6th edition. New York: Penguin Acadmics, pp. 235-262 and 264-294. 59 p. C

Gelb, Leslie H. and Richard K. Betts (2007). "The System Worked". In R. J. McMahon (ed.), Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War, 2nd edition. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, pp. 2-13. 12 p. C

Herring, George C. (1993). "The Reluctant Warrior: Lyndon Johnson as Commander in Chief". In D. L. Anderson (ed.), Shadow of the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War 1945-1975, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, pp. 87-112. 26p. C

Hess, Gary R. (1993). "Commitment in the Age of Counterinsurgency: Kennedy's Vietnam Options and Decisions, 1961-1963." In D. L. Anderson (ed.), Shadow of the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War 1945-1975, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, pp. 63-86. 24p. C

Ikenberry, G., John, David Lake and Michael Mastanduno (1988). "Introduction: Approaches to explaining American Foreign Economic Policy". International Organization, 42 (1): 1-14. 14 p.

Jacobs, Lawrence R. and Benjamin I. Page (2005). "Who influences U.S. foreign policy? American Political Science Review 99 (1): 107-123. 17 p.

Kelemen, R. Daniel and David Vogel (2009). "Trading places: The role of the United States and the European Union in international environmental politics" Comparative Political Studies 43 (4): 427-456. 30 p.

Lieberman, Robert C. (2009). "The 'Israel lobby' and American politics." Perspectives on politics, 7 (2): 235-281 (includes exchange with Mearsheimer and Walt). 46 p.

Lindsay, James M. (2012). "The Shifting Pendulum of Power". In J. M. McCormick (ed.), The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 223-238. 16 p. C

Lindsay, James M. (1994). Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 11-52, 76-98 and 140-160. 86 p.

Lowi, T. J., B. Ginsberg, K. A. Shepsle and S. Ansolabehere (2012). American Government: Power and Purpose, 12th edition. New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 238-289. 52 p. C

McKeown, Timothy with Benjamin Fordham (2003). "Selection and influence: Interest groups and Congressional voting on trade policy". International Organization 57 (3): 519-550. 31 p.

McMahon, Robert J. (2007). "A Strategic Perspective on U.S. Involvement". In R. J. McMahon (ed.), Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War, 2nd edition. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, pp. 102-117. 16 p. C

Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt (2006). "The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy." Middle East Policy, 13 (3): 29-87. 58p.

Milner, Helen (1997). Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 3-29 and pp. 33-66. 61 p. C

Moran, Theodore H. (2009). Three threats: An analytical framework for the CFIUS process. Washington D. C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, Policy Analysis 89. 38 p. C

Munton, Dan and David A. Welch (2012). The Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-105. 105 p.

Rudalevige, Andrew (2006). The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-18. 18 p. C

Tønnesson, Stein (2007). "Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and Indochina: A Reassessment." In M. A. Lawrence and F. Logevall (eds.), The Frist Vietnam War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 56-73. 18 p. C

957 pages.

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