Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM104: US Foreign Policy

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Week 1 Introduction: Main Themes of US Foreign Policy

Week 2 The Beginning of the Cold War

Week 3 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid

Week 4 Eisenhower’s Strategies of Containment: New Look and massive retaliation

Week 5 Kennedy: the New Frontier and Flexible Response

Week 6 Carter’s Quest for World Order and Reagan’s Cold War II

Week 7 The Post-Cold War and US Unipolarity: American Recommitment to NATO

Week 8 The US Engagement in Kosovo

Week 9 The US and the War on Terror

Week 10 Obama and Libya: ‘The New American Way of War?’

Week 11 From Obama to Trump: A Post-Liberal Multipolar World?

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	278	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	22	11 x 2 hour per week seminars including small group work, presentations, discussion, reflection and simulations.
Guided independent study	278	Reading (150 hours), reflection (50 hours), essay writing (78 hours).

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

The main resource students will need will be my twitter feed currently @drdws but this will change. Search for Doug Stokes.