Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of American Studies
- Code
- BBI-AME-224E
- Title
- History of the United States 3.
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Description
- Code for non-international students start with BBN
- Learning outcomes
- The course aims at getting the students acquainted with the major actors in shaping American foreign policy, as well as the different ideas and doctrines which defined the theory and practice of American foreign policy since the birth of the Republic.
- Course content
- The course offers an overview of U.S. diplomatic history and the theory and practice of the foreign policy making process. In the first part of the course, students are invited to explore foreign policy from the era of isolationism to globalization by examining the changes in U.S. national interests over time, including the challenges of U.S. foreign policy making in the 21st century. The second part of the course deals with the process of foreign policy formulation from the constitutional dimensions to the actors involved.
- Assessment method
- Final grades will be based on the combined results of the mid-term and the end-term written exams (50-50%). Both the mid-term and the final exam are going to be composed of identification questions and an essay based on the material of the seminars and the assigned readings.
- Bibliography
- Combs, Gerald A. The History of American Foreign Policy. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Hunt, Michael H. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987. Janda, Kenneth, Jeffrey M. Berry, and Jerry Goldman. The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, c2011. [Janda, Kenneth, Jeffrey M. Berry, and Jerry Goldman. Az amerikai demokrácia. Budapest: Osiris, 1996.] Lind, Michael. The American Way of Strategy. U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. Magyarics, Tamás. Az Egyesült Államok külpolitikájának története. Mítosz és valóság: Értékek és érdekek. Budapest: Antall József Tudásközpont, 2014. Nye, Joseph S. Is the American Century Over? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015.