Advanced Search  17.40 American Foreign Policy: Past, Present,
and Future, Fall 2004  Research and Teaching Output of the MIT
Community  Show simple item record Van Evera, Stephen
dc.coverage.temporal Fall 2004 2012-06-22T08:32:23Z
2012-06-22T08:32:23Z 2004-12 dc.identifier 17.40-Fall2004
dc.identifier.other 17.40 dc.identifier.other IMSCP-
MD5-98f8025d491a43c918b13651061b730f dc.description.abstract The
mission for this course is to explain and evaluate past and
present United States policies. What caused the United States'
past involvement in foreign wars and interventions? Were the
results of U.S. policies good or bad? Would other policies have
better served the U.S. and/or the wider world? Were the beliefs
that guided U.S. policy true or false? If false, what explains
these misperceptions? General theories that bear on the causes
and consequences of American policy will be applied to explain
and evaluate past and present policies. The history of United
States foreign policy in the 20th century is covered i