For the 2023-24 academic year, I am offering the following courses:
American Grand Strategy (postgraduate and undergraduate)
America as a Global Power: FDR to Biden (undergraduate)
Contemporary Issues in International Relations (undergraduate)
American Grand Strategy (postgraduate and undergraduate)
America as a Global Power: FDR to Biden (undergraduate)
Contemporary Issues in International Relations (undergraduate)
Graduate
American Grand Strategy | View Syllabus
This course explores American foreign policy at the broadest level of analysis – the level known as grand strategy. The course showcases the main theoretical perspectives that inform the study of U.S. grand strategy and applies them to historical and contemporary cases of American statecraft. In this connection, we assess the relevance of the U.S. experience for theorizing about power politics and the implications of alternative theories for thinking critically about American behavior.
This course explores American foreign policy at the broadest level of analysis – the level known as grand strategy. The course showcases the main theoretical perspectives that inform the study of U.S. grand strategy and applies them to historical and contemporary cases of American statecraft. In this connection, we assess the relevance of the U.S. experience for theorizing about power politics and the implications of alternative theories for thinking critically about American behavior.
Undergraduate
America as a Global Power: FDR to Trump | View Syllabus
This course examines the evolution of American statecraft since World War II, with special emphasis on the president’s role in defining the nation’s interests. Drawing on historical and contemporary cases, we consider how international power and domestic politics have shaped presidents’ strategic priorities and how those priorities have changed over time.
This course examines the evolution of American statecraft since World War II, with special emphasis on the president’s role in defining the nation’s interests. Drawing on historical and contemporary cases, we consider how international power and domestic politics have shaped presidents’ strategic priorities and how those priorities have changed over time.
Contemporary Issues in International Relations | View Syllabus
This course provides an opportunity to gain an analytically deeper understanding and reflect critically upon some of the most topical issues that currently confront international relations and which shape the development of the contemporary international order. The course encourages students to engage in debating the nature of, and possible responses to, contemporary challenges and crises in international politics. The course offers a more applied policy focus, while emphasising the need for critical analytical depth when reflecting on the origins, nature and implications of current affairs.
This course provides an opportunity to gain an analytically deeper understanding and reflect critically upon some of the most topical issues that currently confront international relations and which shape the development of the contemporary international order. The course encourages students to engage in debating the nature of, and possible responses to, contemporary challenges and crises in international politics. The course offers a more applied policy focus, while emphasising the need for critical analytical depth when reflecting on the origins, nature and implications of current affairs.
Previously Taught Courses
Graduate:
Study of International Relations | View Syllabus
Seminar on American Foreign Policy | View Syllabus
Strategy, Ideas, and Statecraft: The American Experience | View Syllabus
Undergraduate:
US-China Relations | View Syllabus
Issues and Policies in American Politics | View Syllabus
US Foreign Policy: Past and Present | View Syllabus
Study of International Relations | View Syllabus
Seminar on American Foreign Policy | View Syllabus
Strategy, Ideas, and Statecraft: The American Experience | View Syllabus
Undergraduate:
US-China Relations | View Syllabus
Issues and Policies in American Politics | View Syllabus
US Foreign Policy: Past and Present | View Syllabus