2012-2013 Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GOVT 150E CM - Diplomacy and Military Power in U.S. Foreign Policy

The course examines instances in which the United States has sought to combine diplomacy and military power to accomplish the ends of policy. They include World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars, as well as interventions in Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, and Kosovo. The course is based on readings in the classics of strategy and diplomacy, such as Clausewitz and Thucydides, and of the works of more recent strategists and historians, including George Kennan, Bernard Brodie, Colin Gray, Albert Wohlstetter, and John Lewis Gaddis.

Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: GOVT150E CM