POL 250 - Politics of International Relations

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

A study of the evolving relations between nations in the period since 1939, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. The crucial decisions of the Cold War and post-Cold War evaluated against standard of the rational national actor, taking into account distortions caused by bureaucratic, bargaining, personality, psychological, societal, momentum, and communications factors.

Prerequisite: POL 101.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Moyer