| Course Description |
Who determines American foreign policy? How does the CNN Effect impact
choices in American foreign policy? This course seeks to answer those questions by
focusing on how domestic politics can influence American foreign policy decisions. The
Domestic Reality of American Foreign Policy will examine how formal and informal
political actors affect the foreign policy process. The course will briefly review the
determinants of American Foreign Policy, such as the role theory, external sources, and
psychological and societal sources.
This course will place a premium on the outer concentric circle of the American
foreign policy process by examining how informal political actors can influence foreign
policy decisions, such as the mass media, interest groups, and public opinion polls can
sway presidential decisions regarding foreign policy issues. The course will rely on
using the garage can model to critically analyze how foreign policy decisions are
decided that require public support. Moreover, this course will examine broad topics,
including how internal matters in the United States, such as racial unrest, queer social
movements, and other domestic considerations, can impact American foreign policy
issues.
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