POLS 3540 - Different Approaches to American Foreign Policy

• Be able to articulate the premise of the reasons behind different foreign policies and their impact on the U.S. and the international system.
• Critically assess what is the impact of differing belief systems on the adoption of particular foreign policies instead of available others.
• Recognize how historical experiences, belief systems, military power, and culture allow certain foreign policies to be chosen over alternative others.
• Understand how different theories of International Relations and different causal mechanisms justify different foreign policy changes.