This course analyzes the rise of America=s global leadership
during the post-1945 era, its role in changing the international
political and economic system and the subsequent challenges to that
leadership during the last four decades.  The course covers four
major issue areas: a) theories about the origins of the Cold War; b)
governmental institutions and the policy-making process; c) domestic
sources of foreign policy; and d) the future of American foreign
policy in a post-Cold War environment.