This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped).
This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped).
This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures totaling a minimum of 20 hours across Michaelmas Term (MT). This year some or all of this teaching will be delivered via online lectures and in-person classes or classes delivered online.
Students will write short weekly blog posts on Moodle and provide an 800-word outline of their assessed essay by the end of Week 8. This will be returned by the end of MT.
John Lewis Gadds, Strategies of Containment (2005) Peter Trubowitz, Politics and Strategy (Princeton 2011) Linda Weiss, America Inc.? (Cornell 2014) Rebecca Thorpe, The American Warfare State (Chicago 2014) Robert Kagan, The Jungle Grows Back (Knopf, 2018) Joan Hoff, A Faustian Foreign Policy (Cambridge 2008)
Essay (100%, 2500 words) in the LT. Students will write a 2,500 word assessed essay selecting from a list of topics and questions provided by the course coordinator. The essay will be due at the end of Week 1 of the LT.