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POLI 3617

Foreign Policy Decision-Making

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2017

Topics

  • United Nations’ Security Council and the IMF
  • For the process of decision making
  •  What are the main characteristics?
  •  How are the Security Council and the IMF organized?
  •  What are its terms of reference?
  •  What are its procedures?
  •  How effective are they?
  •  What are the main issues?
  •  What is each organization’s history
  • For a specific major power
  •  What are the main issues of its foreign policy?
  •  What is the history of those issues?
  •  What is the top priority of its foreign policy?
  •  Where is the foreign policy located in the political spectrum?
  •  What is the major power’s role in the world?
  • For the decision-making process
  •  What is the type of decision-making?
  •  What are the procedures?
  •  What types of arguments or facts can be used?
  •  Who are the decision-makers?
  •  What are the actions that can be taken?
  • In the course of the analysis, you

Readings

  •  Readings as indicated on the course calendar on Desire2Learn (D2L), to be retrieved through Zoteros;  Ten Core Worksheets and More Strategic Activism, by Laure Paquette, available on D2L and the bookstore;  extra material on reserve or on D2L, including instructional videos; and  all available relevant material, and supplementary and further supporting information found through your own research.
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