UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies
UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland | Director: Professor Liam Kennedy
Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham) & Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin)
Enduring Freedom: Ideology and US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century'
This seminar seeks new interrogations of the historical and contemporary dimensions of US foreign policy through a perspective linking geopolitics, culture, and ideology. Concentrating on the period from the Cold War to the War on Terror, it critiques concepts such as unipolarity, "soft power", and "intervention". As a new Administration takes office, we posit that such an approach takes us beyond the specific considerations of 9-11 and the Bush Years.
MONDAY: POWER
READINGS
Bush, George W. “A Distinctly American Internationalism,” November 19, 1999,
Ikenberry, G. John (for the National Intelligence Council), “Strategic Reactions to American Preeminence: Great Power Politics in the Age of Unipolarity” (2003),
National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002),
National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2006),
Rice, Condoleezza. “Campaign 2000—Promoting the National Interest,” Foreign Affairs 79 (January–February 2000),
HISTORICAL FRAMEWORKS
Gaddis, John L. Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Harvard University Press, 2005)
Krauthammer, Charles. “The Unipolar Moment”, Foreign Affairs (1990/91),
Leffler, Melvyn P. “9/11 and American Foreign Policy,” Diplomatic History 29:3 (June 2005) Lucas, Scott and Mistry, Kaeten. “Illusions of Coherence: George F. Kennan, US Strategy and Political Warfare in the Early Cold War, 1946-50” (forthcoming in Diplomatic History --- copy attached)
CONTEMPORARY ANALYSES
Gaddis, John Lewis. “Grand Strategy in the Second Term,” Foreign Affairs 84 ( January/ February 2005)
Kagan, Robert. “End of Dreams, Return of History”, Policy Review (2007),
Lucas, Scott and Ryan, Maria. “Against Everyone and No One: The Failure of the American Unipolar in Iraq and Beyond” (forthcoming in a collection edited by David Ryan, copy attached)
TUESDAY: PROJECTIONS
HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK
Joseph S. Nye, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (Basic Books, 1990)
READING
Report of the Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab World, Changing Minds: Winning Peace (2003),
CONTEMPORARY ANALYSES
Kennedy, Liam and Lucas, Scott. “Enduring Freedom: Public Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy”, American Quarterly (2005)
Nye, Joseph. “The Decline of America’s Soft Power”, Foreign Affairs (2005),
Snow, Nancy. Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech, and Opinion Control Since 9/11
WEDNESDAY: ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTIONS?
READINGS
“Forging A World of Liberty Under Law”, The Princeton Project on National Security (2006),
The Iraq Study Group Report (2006),
“A Smarter, More Secure America”, Report of the CSIS Commission on Smart Power (2007),
CONTEMPORARY ANALYSES
Fukuyama, Francis. “After Neoconservatism”, New York Times Magazine (19 February 2006),
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