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Law, Diplomacy, & PowerAuthor: Michael R. Fowler
Sit back as Dr. Fowler shares the history of American foreign policy-making like its the greatest story ever told. This wholly online course examines the development of U.S. foreign relations, especially the interplay of legal, diplomatic, and power-driven motives and themes. While examining the manner in which the principal doctrines and institutions of American foreign policy became established, we will analyze the varying strategies and objectives, errors and accomplishments, of particular foreign policymakers within changing domestic and international contexts. Language: en Genres: Government Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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26: Foreign Policy Limits within a Unipolar World - Bill Clinton
Thursday, 19 November, 2020
The purpose of our twenty-sixth class is to examine the foreign policy challenges that faced the Bill Clinton administration and assess how these might best be characterized and appraise how they were handled. We will focus on two case studies, typical of post-Cold War issues and problems: the turmoil in Somalia and the conflict in the Balkans among Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia. What was the importance of Bill Clinton as an American foreign policymaker? What, in particular, is he remembered for? Did he have foreign policy triumphs? Flaws?
