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Note On Web Syllabus Materials: Students may find books, articles, links, websites, blogs, and other materials provided in this syllabus useful and of interest. Their listing in this syllabus, including those which are required and recommended, does not necessarily indicate endorsement of or agreement with any views or positions on any issues found in these materials, websites, or on other sites to which they may provide links.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a graduate seminar devoted to issues relating to America's role in the international environment.  Issues examined include American political culture, ideological perspectives, various dimensions of American power, the challenge of international terrorism, and American "empire".  Considerable emphasis will be given to analyses of American political culture and the relationship between political culture and American foreign policy behavior.

PURPOSE OF COURSE
The purpose of this course is to acquire some understanding of how political culture, ideology, and power influence American foreign policy behavior.

CLASS PARTICIPATION, ORAL PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS, GRADES
1. This course will be conducted as a seminar.  Students must attend every class meeting and be prepared to discuss assigned readings and other materials.  Active participation in class discussion is essential.  Course grades will be determined by oral presentations, class participation, and written papers.
2. Determinants of Course Grade: Oral Reports & Presentations 25%/ Seminar Participation 15%/ Papers 60%

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Please see: Academic Honesty Statement/Student Handbook/Texas State University San Marcos
@ http://www.mrp.txstate.edu/studenthandbook/rules.html#academic  An excerpt from this statement can be found at the end of this syllabus.

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REQUIRED READINGS
Books
Paul Berman/Terror And Liberalism (Norton 2003)
Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit/Occidentalism: The West In The Eyes Of Its Enemies (Penguin 2004)
Niall Ferguson/Colossus: The Price Of America's Empire (Peguin 2004)
John Lewis Gaddis/Surprise, Security, & The American Experience (Harvard Univ. Press 2004)
Samuel P. Huntington/Who Are We?: The Challenges To America's National Identity (Simon & Schuster 2004)
*Robert Kagan/Of Paradise And Power:America And Europe In The New World Order (Vintage 2004)
Anatol Lieven/America Right Or Wrong: An Anatomy Of American Nationalism (Oxford Univ. Press 2004)
Natan Sharansky/The Case For Democracy: The Power Of Freedom To Overcome Tyranny & Terror (PublicAffairs-PerseusBooks 2004)
Fareed Zakaria/The Future Of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home And Abroad (Norton 2004)

*[For the earlier essay on which the Kagan book is based, accessible online, see: Robert Kagan/Power & Weakness/Policy Review/June-July 2002 ]

Articles: Articles for reading and class discussion are listed in the appropriate sections of this syllabus.

Videos
Dr. Strangelove/(1964)[1 hour 33 minutes]DVD/amazon.com
High Noon(1952)[1hour 35 minutes]/DVD/.amazon.com
Shane/(1953)[1 hour 57 minutes]/DVD/amazon.com
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Course Title
PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS

OVERVIEW OF COURSE: TOPICS FOR REPORTS, CLASS DISCUSSION, & ASSIGNED READINGS
I. American Political Culture
1. Political Culture & Foreign Policy Behavior
2. The American Creed
3. "Cowboy Ethics"

II. The Ideological Setting of American Foreign Policy
1. The Cold War, Anti-Communism, & The Threat of Nuclear War
2. Democracy & "Illiberal Democracy"
3. The Case For Democracy
4. Neoconservatives
5. Liberals & Liberal Hawks

III. American Power
1. America & Europe
2. America & The World
3. The Military Dimension
4. Intelligence

IV. Terrorism & Radical Islam
1. Clash Of Civilizations?/The Huntington Thesis
2. Totalitarianism Versus Liberalism
3. Occidentalism
4. Radical Islam

V. American Empire?

TOPICS FOR REPORTS, CLASS DISCUSSION, & ASSIGNED READINGS
I. American Political Culture

1. Political Culture & Foreign Policy Behavior
An Example From China
JacquelineA.Newmyer/China's Air-Power Puzzle: The Cultural Roots Of Beijing's Preference For Missiles Over Planes/Policy Review/June-July 2003

An Example From America
Paul T. MCartney, "American Nationalism & U.S. Foreign Policy from September 11 to the Iraq War", Political Science Quarterly, Fall, 2004, Vol. 119, Issue 3.
This article can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.

2. The American Creed
Books:
Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? , the entire book.
Anatol Lieven, America Right Or Wrong, the entire book.

Articles:
StanleyHoffman/"MorePerfectUnion:Nation&NationalismInAmerica"/Harvard International Review/Winter1997,Vol.20,Issue1.
The Hoffman article can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.
Jack Critin, Ernst B. Haas, Christopher Muste, "Is American Nationalism Changing? Implications for Foreign Policy"/International Studies Quarterly (1994) 38, 1-31.
This article can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.
Samuel Huntington/One Nation,Out Of Many/The American Enterprise Online/September 2004
David Gelernter, "Americanism-and Its Enemies", Commentary, January 2005.
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Samuel P. Huntington/"Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite"/TheNational Interest/Spring 2004
"The central distinction between the public and elites is not isolationism versus internationalism, but nationalism versus cosmopolitanism.
 . . .  Growing differences between the leaders of major institutions and the public on domestic and foreign policy issues affecting national identity form a major cultural fault line cutting across class, denominational, racial, regional and ethnic distinctions. In a variety of ways, the American establishment, governmental and private, has become increasingly divorced from the American people. Politically, America remains a democracy because key public officials are selected through free and fair elections. In many respects, however, it has become an unrepresentative democracy because on crucial issues--especially those involving national identity--its leaders pass laws and implement policies contrary to the views of the American people. Concomitantly, the American people have become increasingly alienated from politics and government."
This Huntington article can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.

Robert D. Kaplan/The Media & Medievalism/Policy Review/December 2004 & January 2005
"Like the priests of ancient Egypt, the rhetoricians of ancient Greece and Rome, and the theologians of medieval Europe, the media represent a class of bright and ambitious people whose social and economic stature gives them the influence to undermine political authority. Like those prior groups, the media have authentic political power — terrifically magnified by technology — without the bureaucratic accountability that often accompanies it, so that they are never culpable for what they advocate."

Samuel P. Huntington/The Hispanic Challenge/Foreign Policy/March/April 2004
"The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril."
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Reviews Of Huntington's Who Are We?
Paul Starr/The Return Of The Nativist(A Critique Of Huntington's Book WhoAreWe?)/The New Republic/June 21 2004
Enrique Krauze/Identity Fanaticism(A Critique Of Huntington's Book Who Are We?)/The New Republic/June 21 2004
Alan Wolfe/"Native Son: Samuel Huntington Defends The Homeland"/ForeignAffairs/May-June 2004
Huntington's Response to Wolfe's Review/Credal Passions -"Getting Me Wrong"/ForeignAffairs/September-October 2004
Wolfe's review and Huntington's response can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.
Carlos Fuentes/Huntington And The Mask O fRacism/New Perspectives Quarterly/Vol.21 No.2/Spring 2004

James Nuechterlain, "Protestant Ethic", Commentary, May 2004, Vol. 117, Issue 5.
The Neuchterlain review can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.
James Kurth, "The Late American Nation", The National Interest, Fall, 2004, Issue 77.
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Ross Douthat/Who Will We Be?/Policy Review/October& November 2004
Richard John Neuhas/Communion & Communio, etc.-Scroll To: "To Be American"/First Things/August-September 2004

Review Of Lieven's America Right Or Wrong
Colin Kidd, "My God was bigger than his", London Review Of Books, 4 November 2004, Vol. 26, No. 21.
A review essay of several recently published books on American political culture and nationalism with lengthy comments on Anatol Lieven's America Right or Wrong.
This article can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.

Recommended Additional Articles On American Political Culture & The American Creed:
Anatol Lieven, "Taking Back America", London Review of Books, 2 December 2004, Vol. 26, No. 3.
The Lieven article can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.
Jonathan Tepperman/The Anti-Anti-Americans/NYT/December 12, 2004
John Gerring /"Perspectives in Policy History -The Perils of Particularism: Political History After Hartz"/Journal of Policy History 11.3 (1999) 313-322.
The Gerring article can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.
Peter Dreier & Dick Flacks/Patriotism's Secret History/The Nation/June 3 2002
Robert Bonner/Star-Spangled Sentiment/tcommon-place.org/vol-03/no-02/January 2003
"It is worth considering why Americans have invested their flags with such importance and how the United States has become more saturated with patriotic color than any other country in the world. The comparative intensity of American loyalties is less noteworthy than the country's fixation on a single symbol, which has come to be associated with a remarkably wide range of emotions."

3. "Cowboy Ethics"
Holiday Dmitri/Frontier Justice: Cowboy Ethics & The Bush Doctrine Of Preemption/MA Thesis/Univ. Of Chicago/August 2003(pdf)
http://www.holidayness.com/HDmitri_MAthesis.pdf
An analysis of the use of an American popular culture icon, the cowboy,  and "cowboy ethics" to legitimize the preemptive use of military force in foreign policy.

J. Hoberman/It's Always 'High Noon' at the White House/NYT/April 25.2004
Gary Cooper as the lone man of courage, dispensing violent justice despite the cowardice of the townspeople, in "High Noon," the film most often requested for screening by American presidents.
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Recommended:
Chris Orr/Home Movies: Into The Sunset/The New Republic/May 25 2004
A review of the film "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1989), a film "about not only the end of the West but the end of the Western."
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Thomas S. Engeman/In Defense of Cowboy Culture/Claremont Review of Books/Summer 2003

MaxBoot/"In Search of Monsters?"/Review Of Gaddis' book Surprise, Security, & The American Experience(Harvard 2004)/Commentary/May 2004
This review in the May 2004 issue of Commentary can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.
From Boot's Review:
... Gaddis’s major contribution is to treat the Bush Doctrine as a set of ideas worthy of scholarly examination rather than as a subject for ritualistic denunciation. He does not denigrate the President as a cowboy ..." (boldface added)

Erik Baard/George W. Bush Ain't No Cowboy/Village Voice/September 28 2004

Videos
High Noon
High Noon/DVD/.amazon.com
High Noonfilmsite.org/high.html
Shane

II. The Ideological Setting of American Foreign Policy
1. The Cold War, Anti-Communism, & The Threat of Nuclear War

The Cold War & Anti-Communism
George F. Kennan/The Sources Of Soviet Conduct/(The"X"Article)Foreign Affairs/1947
Also see: George F. Kennan/The Long Telegram/February 22 1946

The Report From Iron Mountain/Leonard Lewin/Nov.1967(With Remarks By Leonard Lewin/NYTBook Review/March 19 1972)
Report >From Iron Mountain/Background & Description Of Report/museumofhoaxes.com/iron.html
Links For Materials On Report From Iron Mountain/brothersjudd.com-Scroll To Links

Nuclear War
Video
Dr. Strangelove
Dr.Strangelove:ASynopsisWith Pictures & Sound/wso.williams.edu/~mhacker/strangelove.html
Tim Dirks,In Depth Review Of Dr.Strangelove/filmsite.org/drst.html
Fred Kaplan/Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove'/NYT/October 10 2004

Bill Keller/The Thinkable/NYT Sunday Magazine/May 04. 2003
"During the last years of the cold war, weapons of mass destruction were mostly abstractions to be counted and negotiated.  Suddenly, with too few people paying attention, they are proliferating, and those who now have or want nukes will use them to blackmail, or worse."

2. Democracy & "Illiberal Democracy"
Books:
Fareed Zakaria, The Future Of Freedom, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.
Also see:  Fareed Zakaria/The Rise Of Illiberal Democracy/Foreign Affairs/November 1997

Reviews of Zakaria's The Future Of Freedom
Robert Kagan/The Ungreat Washed:Why Democracy Must Remain America's Goal/The New Republic/July 07. 2003
Links For Reviews Of Zakaria's The Future Of Freedom & Links For Other Zakaria Writings/brothers.judd.com-Scroll to Links

3. The Case For Democracy
Books:
Natan Sharansky, The Case For Democracy, the entire book.
Gary Rosen/Freedom From Fear/Newsweek/December 20 2004
 "One of the more curious leaks from the White House right after the election was word that U.S. President George W. Bush had been reading a book. Notable in itself—the president isn't exactly a bookworm—the story was made still more interesting by the fact that the work in question was "The Case for Democracy" (PublicAffairs. 303 pages) by Natan Sharansky, who had even been summoned to the Oval Office for a chat. Supporters of Bush's policies in the Middle East took heart from this bit of news, while critics found yet another reason to grind their teeth. Sharansky's message, as he declares in his subtitle: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror. " (boldface added)

The Sharansky-Bush Perspective On Promoting Democracy: Favorable Views
J. Siegle, M. Weinstein, &  M. Halperin/Why Democracies Excel/NYT/September 28 2004
"Economic development makes democracy possible asserts the U.S. State Department's Web site, subscribing to a highly influential argument: that poor countries must develop economically before they can democratize. But the historical data prove otherwise. Poor democracies have grown at least as fast as poor autocracies and have significantly outperformed the latter on most indicators of social well-being. They have also done much better at avoiding catastrophes. Dispelling the "development first, democracy later" argument is critical not only because it is wrong but also because it has led to atrocious policies-indeed, policies that have undermined international efforts to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the developing world.
...Those who believe that democracy can take hold only once a state has developed economically preach a go-slow approach to promoting democracy. But we and others who believe that countries often remain poor precisely because they retain autocratic political structures believe that a development-first strategy perpetuates a deadly cycle of poverty, conflict, and oppression."

Michael Ignatieff/Democratic Providentialism/NYT Sunday Magazine/December 12 2004
"...it remains true that the promotion of democracy by the United States has proved to be a dependably good idea. America may be more unpopular than ever before, but its hegemony really has coincided with a democratic revolution around the world. For the first time in history, a majority of the world's peoples live in democracies. In a dangerous time, this is about the best news around, since democracies, by and large, do not fight one another, and they do not break up into civil war. As a result -- and contrary to the general view that the world is getting more violent -- ethnic and civil strife have actually been declining since the early 1990's, according to a study of violent conflicts by Ted Robert Gurr at the University of Maryland. Democratic transitions can be violent -- when democracy came to Yugoslavia, majority rule at first led to ethnic cleansing and massacre -- but once democracies settle in, once they develop independent courts and real checks and balances, they can begin to advance majority interests without sacrificing minority rights."

Michael McFaul/Democracy Promotion As A World Value/Washington Quarterly/Winter 2005 (pdf)
"... critics argue that the United States must abandon the ideological mission of democracy promotion, both in Iraq and throughout the world, and instead follow a more pragmatic, realist foreign policy if it is to regain its respect abroad and more effectively defend U.S. national interests.... Yet, this interpretation of the relationship between U.S. foreign policy and American popularity on the one hand and the status of democratic values in the international community on the other is misleading. First, democracy as an international norm is stronger today than ever, and democracy itself is widely regarded as an ideal system of government. Democracy also has near-universal appeal among people of every ethnic group, every religion, and every region of the world.
Second, democracy promotion as a foreign policy goal has become increasingly acceptable throughout most of the international community."

The Sharansky-Bush Perspective On Promoting Democracy: Doubts & Criticism
Ian Buruma/An Islamic Democracy For Iraq/NYT Sunday Magazine/December 05 2004
"Is Islamic democracy really possible?  Or is it something meaningless, like ''Jewish science,'' say, or contradictory, like ''people's democracy'' under Communism?  This is the question that will determine the future of Iraq, ..."

Fareed Zakaria, "Islam, Democracy, & Constitutional Liberalism", Political Science Quarterly, Spring, 2004, Vol. 119.
“Although it is easy to impose elections on a country, it is more difficult to push constitutional liberalism on a society. The process of genuine liberalization and democratization, in which an election is only one step, is gradual and long term.
… the absence of free and fair elections should be viewed as one flaw, not the definition of tyranny. Elections are an important virtue of governance, but they are not the only virtue. It is more important that governments be judged by yardsticks related to constitutional liberalism. Economic, civil, and religious liberties are at the core of human autonomy and dignity. If a government with limited democracy steadily expands these freedoms, it should not be branded a dictatorship.”
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Gerard Alexander, "The Authoritarian Illusion", The National Interest, Fall, 2004, Issue 77.
"While it is true that several authoritarian societies have bred anti-Western extremism, many others have not. Sympathy for democracy does not constitute sufficient grounds for a sweeping policy of worldwide democratization.
...The United States does not require a fully democratic world in order to achieve security.  Indeed, the threats we currently face are generated by causes that transcend regime type."
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4. Neoconservatives
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America/http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc.html

Francis Fukuyma, "The Neoconservative Moment", The National Interest, Summer, 2004
Charles Krauthammer, "In Defense of Democratic Realism, The National Interest, Fall, 2004
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Julia Gorin/Blame It On Neo/Wall Street Journal/September 23 2004
Franklin Foer/Identity Crisis: Neocon V. Neocon On Iran/The New Republic/December 20 2004
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RobertJ.Lieber/The Neoconservative Conspiracy Theory:Pure Myth/The Chronicle Of Higher Education/May 02.2003
Max Boot/What The Heck Is A Neocon?/Wall Street Journal/December 30.2002

Alain Frachon & Daniel Vernet/The Strategist & The Philosopher-On Strauss & The Neo-Cons(English Translation)/Le Monde/April 15 2003

5. Liberals & Liberal Hawks
Peter Beinart/A Fighting Faith/The New Republic/December 02 2004
Kevin Drum/Liberals & Terrorism(A response to Beinart's A Fighting Faith)/Washington Monthly/December 02 2004
Peter Beinart/The Good Fight (A rejoinder to Kevin Drum)/The New Republic/December 20 200
David Corn/Liberals On Terror (Corn's response to Beinart's A Fighting Faith)/tompaine.com/December 09 2004

Conservatives On Liberals & Liberal Hawks
Jonah Goldberg/Staying Soft: Peter Beinart's Lonely Voice/National Review/ December 10 2004
William Voegeli/The Implausibility Of A New Liberalism/claremont.org/December 08 2004

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III. American Power
1. America & Europe
Books:
Robert Kagan, Of Paradise And Power, the entire book.

Articles:
Robert Kagan/Power& Weakness(Western Europe & US: Differences In Power, Perspective & Political Culture)/Policy Review/June-July 2002
Ronald D.Asmus&Kenneth M.Pollack/The New Transatlantic Project:A Response ToRobert Kagan/Policy Review/October 02.2002
Tod Lindberg/"We"/Policy Review/December 2004 & January 2005
Mark Lilla/The End of Politics/The New Republic/June 23 2003
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Timothy G. Ash/The Great Powers Of Europe, Redefined/NYT/December 17 2004
Jonathan Tepperman/The Anti-Anti-Americans/NYT/December 17 2004 (revisited)

2. America & The World
Books:
John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security And The American Experience, the entire book.

Review Of Gaddis, Surprise, Security And The American Experience
MaxBoot/"In Search of Monsters?"/Review Of Gaddis'book Surprise,Security,&The American Experience(Harvard 2004)/Commentary/May 2004
This review in the May 2004 issue of Commentary can be accessed @Locating Periodicals At Texas State University Library  A valid Texas State University User Name and Password are required.

From Boot's Review:  "A great many books analyzing the recent shifts in American foreign policy have appeared since September 11, 2001. Most are harshly critical of President Bush and all his works. Their tenor can be judged by some of their titles: Rogue Nation, The Bubble of American Supremacy, The Sorrows of Empire, Superpower Syndrome. The more scabrous among them do not hesitate to compare George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and America to Nazi Germany. And that is to say nothing of the books, which have become bestsellers in Europe, claiming that the CIA (or was it the Mossad?) was actually behind the 9/11 attacks. In response, some on the Right have produced equally histrionic screeds, like Ann Coulter’s Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism and Sean Hannity’s Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism—books that, in essence, accuse Bush’s critics of being fifth columnists....

...It is a relief, therefore, to pick up Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, a sober attempt to analyze Bush’s foreign policy in historical context and without partisan rancor. Its author is John Lewis Gaddis, our most eminent historian of the cold war, who taught for many years at Ohio University and now holds the Robert A. Lovett chair in military and naval history at Yale...

...Though he has long outraged New Left historians, Gaddis is hardly known as a conservative. His reputation is that of a moderately liberal scholar—which makes the assessment of Bush’s foreign policy that he offers in this slender volume all the more interesting and all the more likely to discomfit the administration’s critics..."

Articles:
Charles Krauthammer, "The Unipolar Moment Revisited" The National Interest, Winter 2002-2003
"The future of the unipolar era hinges on whether America is governed by those who wish to retain, augment, and use unipolarity to advance not just American but global ends, or whether America is governed by those who wish to give it up either by allowing unipolarity to decay as they retreat to Fortress America, or by passing on the burden by gradually transferring power to multilateral institutions as heirs to American hegemony."
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Fareed Zakaria/Our Way: The Trouble With Being TheWorld's Only Superpower/The New Yorker/October14. 2002(IncludesRemarksOn
RobertKagan's Power & Weakness(Western Europe & US: Differences In Power,Perspective & Political Culture)/Policy Review/June-July 2002

3. The Military Dimension
Max Boot/The New American Way Of War/Foreign Affairs/July-August2003
Victor Davis Hanson/Military Technology & American Culture/The New Atlantis/Spring 2003
Thomas P. M. Barnett/The Pentagon's New Map/Esquire/March 2003 Vol. 139 Issue 3
"Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world—and a military strategy to accompany it.  Now there’s a leading contender.  It involves identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them.  Since September 11, 2001, the author, a professor of warfare analysis, has been advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense and giving this briefing continually at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community. ..."
Robert D. Kaplan/The Media & The Military/Atlantic Monthly/November 2004
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James Fallows/Will Iran Be Next?/Atlantic Monthly/December 2004
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4. Intelligence
Roberta Wohlstetter, "Cuba And Pearl Harbor: Hindsight And Foresight", Foreign Affairs, Vol. XLIII, July, 1965, pp. 691-707.
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Kenneth M. Pollack/Spies, Lies, & Weapons: What Went Wrong/Atlantic Monthly/February 2004
How could we have been so far off in our estimates of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs? A leading Iraq expert and intelligence analyst in the Clinton Administration—whose book The Threatening Storm proved deeply influential in the run-up to the war—gives a detailed account of how and why we erred.
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Andrew C.McCarthy, "The Intelligence Mess", Commentary, April 2004, Vol. 117, Issue 4
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James Fallows/Blind Into Baghdad/Atlantic Monthly/January-February 2004
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Stephen Grey/Follow The Mullahs/Atlantic Monthly/November 2004
With theologians at the center of terrorist strategy, "forensic theology" is rapidly becoming a valuable intelligence tool.
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IV. Terrorism & Radical Islam
1. Clash Of Civilizations?/The Huntington Thesis
Samuel P.Huntington,"The Clash Of Civilizations?"(The original essay)
The Clash Of Civilizations/Links/brothersjudd.com
FouadAjami, "The Summoning"(Response to Huntington's original essay)
Edward Said/The Clash Of Ignorance(Critical View Of Huntington's Clash Of Civilizations Essay)/The Nation/October 22. 2001
Stanley Kurtz/The Future Of "History"/Francis Fukuyama & Samuel P..Huntington/Policy Review/June-July 2002

World War IV
Norman Podhoretz/World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, & Why We Have To Win/Commentary/ September 2004
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And See: An Exchange On Norman Podhoretz's "World War IV", Letters From Readers, Commentary, December 2004
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2. Totalitarianism Versus Liberalism
Books:
Paul Berman, Terror And Liberalism, Chapters I,  II.

3. Occidentalism
Books:
Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism, pp. 1-99.
Also see: Ian Buruma/The Origins Of Occidentalism/The Chronicle Of Higher Education/February 6, 2004

Articles:
Charles P. Freund/2001 Nights: The End Of The Orientalist Critique/Reason/December 2001
Keith Windschuttle/Edward Said's "Orientalism Revisited"/The New Criterion/January 17 1999
Victor David Hanson/Occidentalism/National Review/May 10. 2002

4. Radical Islam
Books:
Paul Berman, Terror And Liberalism, Chapters III,  IV.
Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism, pp. 101-149.

Articles:
Bernard Lewis/The Roots Of Muslim Rage/Atlantic Monthly/September1990/Reprint-cis.org.au/policy/summer01-02/PolicySummer01 3.html
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Neil J. Kressel/The Urgent Need to Study Islamic Anti-Semitism/The Chronicle Of Higher Education/March 12, 2004
Mark Bowden/News Judgment & Jihad/Atlantic Monthly/December 2004
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Also see: Addititional Readings On Radical Islam posted on the main page of this website @ arnoldleder.comA valid User Name and Password, available to students in this course, are required for access to these materials.

V. American Empire?
Books:
Niall Ferguson, Colossus, the entire book.

Articles:
Niall Ferguson/America: An Empire In Denial/The Chronicle Of Higher Education/March 28 2003
Stanley Kurz/Democratic Imperialism/Policy Review/April. 2003
Stanley Kurtz/After The War/City Journal/Winter 2003
G. John Ikenberry/Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order/Foreign Affairs, March/April 2004
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Theodore Dalrymple/After Empire/City-Journal/Spring 2003
Lee  Harris/Our World-Historical Gamble/Tech Central Station/March11 2003
Joshua Murchavik/The New Gloomsayers/Wall Street Journal/June 23  2003 & Commentary/June 2003
"Thinkers again predict American decline. Is there any reason to think they'll be right this time?"

Joseph S. Nye Jr.,"The Dependent Colossus", Foreign Policy, March-April 2002, Issue 129.
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Stephen Peter Rosen,"An Empire, If You Can Keep It", The National Interest, Spring 2003, Issue 71
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Jack Snyder,"Imperial Temptations", The National Interest, Spring 2003, Issue 71
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Philip Zelikow,"The Transformation of National Security", The National Interest, Spring 2003, Issue 71
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For additional reading:
Robert D. .Kaplan,"The Coming Anarchy,"Atlantic Monthly, February 1994
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Excerpts >From Academic Honesty Statement
Learning and teaching take place best in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and openness. All members of the academic community are responsible for supporting freedom and openness through rigorous personal standards of honesty and fairness. Plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty undermine the very purpose of the university and diminish the value of an education.
Academic Offenses
Students who have committed academic dishonesty, which includes cheating on an examination or other academic work to be submitted, plagiarism, collusion, or abuse of resource materials, are subject to disciplinary action.
a. Academic work means the preparation of an essay, thesis, report, problem assignments, or other projects which are to be submitted for purposes of grade determination.
b. Cheating means:
1. Copying from another student’s test paper, laboratory report, other report or computer files, data listing, and/or programs.
2. Using materials during a test unauthorized by person giving test.
3. Collaborating, without authorization, with another person during an examination or in preparing academic work.
4. Knowingly, and without authorization, using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, soliciting, copying, or possessing, in whole or part, the content of an unaministered test.
5. Substituting for another student—or permitting another person to substitute for oneself in taking an exam or preparing academic work.
6. Bribing another person to obtain an unadministered test or information about an unadministered test.
c. Plagiarism means the appropriation of another’s work and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one’s own written work offered for credit. (Underline Added)
d. Collusion means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work offered for credit.
e. Abuse of resource materials means the mutilation, destruction, concealment, theft or alteration of materials provided to assist students in the mastery of course materials.
Penalties for Academic Dishonesty
Students who have committeed academic dishonesty may be subject to:
a. Academic penalty including one or more of the following when not inconsistent:
1. A requirement to perform additional academic work not required of other students in the course;
2. Required to withdraw from the course with a grade of “F.”  (Underline Added)
3. A reduction to any level grade in the course, or on the exam or other academic work affected by the academic dishonesty.
b. Disciplinary penalty including any penalty which may be imposed in a student disciplinary hearing pursuant to this Code of Conduct.

The complete Texas State University Academic Honesty Statement is accessible @ http://www.mrp.txstate.edu/studenthandbook/rules.html#academic
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