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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

POLSCI 435 - Foreign Policy Analysis


3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This course examines the way countries make their foreign policy. It considers the international, domestic, and even interpersonal settings in which policymakers pursue their goals in different countries. Understanding these goals and the constraints on their pursuit helps to explain why policymakers sometimes choose policies that, in retrospect, turn out to be unproductive or even damaging to their own or their country’s interests. This course explores the ways that seemingly irrational policies can nevertheless be explained in rational terms, but it also encourages students to view the temptation to “rationalize” critically in their own analyses of foreign policy.
Students may not receive credit for both POLSCI 435 and INTREL 635.

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: POLSCI 102  or ECON 101  or POLSCI 203  or POLSCI 220  or permission of instructor

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