History 3080/5080                                                           Summer, 2009
The American Century                                                   Mr. Bowling

 

Readings:

Andrew J. Bacevich, The Long War; A New History of
   U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II
   (New York, 2007).

Eren Manela,  The Wilsonian Moment; Self-Determination
   & the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
   (Princeton, 2007).
 

Jonathan Zimmerman, Innocents Abroad; American
   Teachers in the American Century (Cambridge, Mass.,
   2006).
 

Helga Haftendor et al., eds., The Strategic Triangle;
   France, Germany, & the United States in the Shaping of
   the New Europe (Baltimore, 2007).

Amin Saikal, The Rise & Fall of the Shah; Iran from
   Autocracy to Religious Rule (Princeton, 2009). 

Topics to be Considered:

        The United States & the World in 1900

        The International Economy

        The Great War & Wilsonianism

        American Popular Culture Exported

        The Rise of the Totalitarianisms and
           the Response of the United States

        The Course & Results of World War II

        The Cold War World Structure

        Case Studies of United States foreign
           relations: Western Europe, Iran

        The Conclusion to the Cold War, & its
            Results

Human Rights & America
“Globalization”: various meanings

Will the 21^st Century be American?

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