Has the United States Become an Empire?

David Gibbs
Fall 2017
FRIDAYS |  
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
September 15 - December 15, 2017. No classeS
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $160

U.S. intervention in underdeveloped countries raises many basic issues of international relations and foreign policy. The main purpose of this class is to provide students with an ability to examine such issues critically and in a historical context. Among the general areas we will look at are: the historical background that led to the emergence of the USA as a major power, beginning at the end of the 1940s; the role of covert operations during the Cold War; the Vietnam War and its long-term effects; the end of the Cold War; and the War on Terror. The course lectures will emphasize the remarkable continuity of U.S. policy from the Cold War through the period after it.

This course is a repeat of the class given in Spring 2016.

Required Reading

Layne, Christopher. The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present. New York: Cornell University Press, 2007. ISBN-10: 0801474116.

Meet Your Instructor

Professor

David Gibbs has taught at UA for the past 32 years in both the political science and history departments. His doctorate in political science is from MIT, with a MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. He is now a Professor of History at UA. He is completing his third book, which focuses on the rightward shift in US domestic politics. He has published extensively in academic journals as well as in newspapers and magazines.

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