True Crime Amer Foreign Pol

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course examines historical instances of domestic and international crime that influenced American foreign policy structures, law, behavior, and citizenship. Examples given significant attention range from the international opium trade to the domestic incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. With historical analysis, students will be able to identify how issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality—through the lens of crime—affected, and continue to affect national decision-making processes by federal departments, intelligence services, the public, and the media.