Current Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy

This course is class-restricted to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. This seminar will look at current issues in U.S. national security policy. The class is structured in three parts: The first section will consider America's general role in world politics in 2024. The second section will focus on the foreign policy of the Biden administration and how the 2024 presidential election might impact U.S. foreign policy going forward. The remainder of the class will focus on a new international hot spot and discuss recent academic and policy pieces related to that topic. The course has three main objectives: 1) to gain a better understanding of current U.S. foreign policy debates, 2) to better understand ongoing international disputes, and 3) to apply theoretical insights derived from the international relations literature to the policy debates surrounding those disputes.