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Fulbright American Studies Institute - 2004

U.S. National Security:
American Foreign Policy Formulation in an Era of Globalization

January 3 - February 4, 2004

Institute Syllabus:

The scholarly goals of the University of Delaware Fulbright Institute on US National Security and Foreign Policy are ambitious. They include familiarizing participants with cutting-edge trends in scholarship about international relations and world politics and the implications for understanding of US national security and foreign policy. Specifically, participants will come away from the Institute with a clear understanding of how globalization has affected US national security and foreign policy.

Another goal involves deepening the understanding of the institutional structure and processes of foreign and security policy-making in the United States today. New forces and the changing environment of US foreign and security policy have affected the formulation of that policy. The announcement of the war on terrorism has, most notably, prompted a plan for the most important reorganization of the Federal government since World War II. Institute participants will come away with a better understanding of the intricacies of the process and an appreciation for new procedures and institutional arrangements.

The Institute is convened during a time of war and therefore should impart a thorough understanding of the US war on terrorism-including the home front, at the level of municipal and state government and at the federal level, in terms of US bilateral and regional relations as well as US relations with international organizations like the United Nations. The war on terrorism is a complex and long-term undertaking. The Institute will inform and educate participants about its various dimensions, how it is likely to affect overall US foreign policy and how it will do so.

The "era of globalization" refers to the period since the 1970s, which is characterized by heightened or intensified transnational interactions in virtually all domains, supported by an ever-increasing pace and velocity of technological innovation. The final segment of the Institute examines transnational forces such as migration and human trafficking, human rights norms, environmental threats and changes and their effects on US national security and foreign policy. Some have proposed, for instance, that US immigration policy be reconceptualized as the "front line" of national security policy. Participants will leave the Institute conversant in the multifaceted issues of the transnational political economy, the US immigration and refugee policy debate, authoritatively informed about the growing importance attached to combating human trafficking in US foreign policy, and versed in the human rights and environmental security dimensions of US policy.

These goals will be achieved through sustained work through a multiplicity of learning strategies ranging from readings, roundtable discussions, lectures, site visits, field trips and interactive learning on the internet.

MODULE I: JANUARY 6-9

THEME: US FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY AFTER 9/11

"International Relations Theory and National Security: Why Can't We Ever Get It Right?" Robert Denemark (Lecture, 9:00-11:00 am)

"Globalization: Change in the Global Political Economy" Matthew Hoffmann (Lecture, 1:00-3:00 pm)

"Globalization and Global Governance" James. N. Rosenau (Lecture, 9:00-11:00 am)

"Understanding the American News Media in a Global Context," Ralph Begeliter (Lecture,1:00-3:00 pm)

"U.S. Security Policy and the Global Strategic Environment," Professor Robert Dorff,U.S. Army War College (Lecture, 9:00-11:00 am)

"Post-Cold War Foreign Policy, New Security Agenda, and the Media: Whose Media Are We?" Ralph Begleiter (Moderated discussion, 1:00-3:00 pm)

Roundtable Discussion: "Historical Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy: The Empire Debate" Mark Miller (Roundtable Discussion #1, 9:00-11:00 am)

"Effects of 9/11 on US Foreign Policy" Mark Miller (Roundtable discussion #2, 1:00-3:00 pm)

MODULE II: JANUARY 12-19

THEME: THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS

"U.S. Constitutional Law" James Magee (Lecture, 9:00-11:00 am)

"The U.S. Presidency" Joseph A. Pika (Lecture, 1:00-3:00 pm)

"Media and the U. S. Military and Government" Ralph Begleiter (Lecture, 3:30-5:30 pm, MEM 109)

MODULE III: JANUARY 20-25

THEME: THE WAR ON TERRORISM - HOMELAND SECURITY AND U.S. FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY

"U.S. Constitutional Constraints. Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism" James Magee (Lecture, 9:00-11:00 am, MEM 110)

"The Bush Presidency and Foreign Policy" Joseph Pika (Lecture, 1:00-2:30 pm, GOR 116)

"Humanitarian Intervention and U.S. Security Policy" Kenneth Campbell (Lecture, 3:00-4:30 pm, GOR 116)

MODULE IV: JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 4

THEME: GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONAL FORCES AND U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY

"Southeast Asia: Regionalism and U.S. Foreign Policy" Alice Ba (Lecture, 9:00-10:45 am)

"U.S. Foreign Policy and Latin America" Julio Carrion (Regional panel #1, 11:00am-12:30 pm; optional)

"U.S. Security and Foreign Policy: Africa" Gretchen Bauer/R. Kiki Edozie(Regional panel #2, 3:30-5:00 pm; optional)

"U.S. Foreign Policy: Asia" Alice Ba (Regional panel #3, 9:00-10:30 am; optional)

"The Transatlantic Relations-Trade, Security, Allies and Coalitions, Global Issues" Mark Miller/Boyka Stefanova (Regional Panel #4, 11:00am-12:30pm; optional)

"Democracy Promotion and U.S. Foreign and Security Policy:Latin America" Julio Carrion (Lecture, 2:00-4:00 pm)

"Domestic Social Implications of the War on Terrorism: children, women, minorities" Marian Palley/Mark Miller (Panel Discussion, 9:00-11:00 am)

"Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy" William Meyer (Lecture, 1:00-3:00 pm)

"Environmental Security" Matthew Hoffmann (Lecture, 9:00-11:00 am)

"The Global Financial System: Evolving Insecurity" Robert Denemark (Lecture, 1:00-3:00 pm)

"The U.S. and the Middle East: Comparing the Two Gulf Wars" William Meyer (Lecture, 1:00-2:30 pm)

"The Evolution of U.S. Foreign Policy in Southwest Asia" Bahram Rajaee (Lecture, 3:00-4:30 pm)

"Launching the Epistemic Community"

TRIP TO WASHINGTON, DC

Washington, DC Study Session (I)

National Defense University (Panel on Counterterrorism: Joseph Hammes, Joseph McMillan, and James Schaer) U.S. National Security Council (Tracy McKibben) Center for Strategic and International Studies (Thomas Sanderson and Miguel Diaz)

Washington, DC Study Session (II)

U.S. Department of Defense. Remarks and Q&A: Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense The Nixon Center (Cliff Kupchan and Robert Leiken) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Jessica Tuchman Mathews)

Washington, DC Study Session (III)

World Bank session on the development agenda and globalization: Briefing (Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit) Multiple sessions at U.S. Senate

Washington D.C. study session (IV)

U.S. Department of State (9:00am-3:30 pm). Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (Phillip Linderman) National Intelligence Council (Paul Pillar) U.S. Department of State, Study of the U.S. Branch, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Department of State,Office of Policy Planning (Mitchel Reiss, Director) "Capitol Steps" Political Satire, Ronald Reagan International Trade Center

TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY

New York study session (I)

Council on Foreign Relations (Michael Peters and James Lindsay, Briefing) Human Rights Watch, (Saman Zia-Zarifi, Briefing)

New York study session (II)

Permanent Representation of the U.S. to the United Nations (Briefing) United Nations Population Division regarding Population and Security Issues (Joseph Chamie, Briefing)

TRIP TO BOSTON

Boston study session (I)

Harvard University: Meeting with Dr. Joseph Nye - Dean of the Kennedy School of Government MIT: Discussion on U.S. Security Policy at Security Studies Program (Barry Posen and Harvey Sapolsky) Tufts University, Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship Program (EPIIC, Sherman Teichman)

Boston study session (II)

Briefing at the Kennedy School of Government (Jessica Stern) Plenary Session at Tufts University, Global Leadership Institute (Sherman Teichman)