Political Science · Boston College
This course examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of U.S. foreign policy since 1945. What were the underlying patterns and logics guiding U.S. leaders? How did changes in the structure of the international system influence U.S. foreign policy? What caused America's foreign interventions and wars? Topics covered include: the origins of the Cold War; the strategies of containment, engagement, and rollback; U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere; the evolution of U.S. nuclear doctrine; detente; U.S. interventions in Korea, Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan;
