Seminar 1: The French Bid for Mastery, 1789-1815
Primary SourcesThe Declaration of Pillnitz, 1791 (see Moodle).
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton, 1989), Bk. 1, Ch. 1.
Secondary Sources
Michael Duffy, ‘Britain as a European ally, 1789-1815’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 8, 3 (1997).
Paul Schroeder, ‘Napoleon’s Foreign Policy: A Criminal Enterprise,” in The Journal of Military History, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 147-162.
Brendan Simms, ‘A false principle in the Law of Nations’: Burke, state sovereignty, [German] liberty, and intervention in the age of Westphalia,’ in Brendan Simms and David Trim (eds.) Humanitarian Intervention: A History (Cambridge, 2011).
Seminar 2: Concert of Europe, 1815-1848
Primary SourcesAlphonse de LaMartine, “Manifesto to Europe” (see Moodle).
Karl Marx, Readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert C. Tucker (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978) – Communist Manifesto, pp. 473-83.
Secondary Sources
G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars (Princeton UP, 2001 paperback), chapter four, "The Settlement of 1815", pp. 80-116.
Henry A. Kissinger, A World Restored (New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1964). ‘Introduction’, ‘The Continental Statesman’, ‘The Insular Statesman’ and ‘Metternich and the Definition of Political Equilibrium’, chapters 1- 4, and chapters, 16 and 17.
Seminar 3: The Era of Unifications, 1849-1871 (By Steven McGregor)
Primary Sources“Austria, Prussia and Germany, 1806-1871”, edited by Jon Breuilly, (See Moodle).
Secondary Sources
James M. McPherson, “The Whole Family of Man’: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope Abroad,” in Robert E. May, The Union, the Confederacy and the Atlantic Rim (Lafayette, Ind., 1995).
William Carr, The origins of the wars of German unification (London and New York, 1991), chapter 4.
Frank J. Coppa, The Italian Wars of Independence, (London and New York, 1992), chapter 6.
Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (New York: Knopf, 2001), pp. 99-131, 174-263.
Seminar 4: Bismarckian Geopolitics, 1871-1890
Primary Sources“Bismarck and Europe”, edited by W.N. Medlicott and Dorothy K. Coveney, (See Moodle).
Extract from Bismarck, The Man, The Statesman, Vol. 2, pp 231-296.
Secondary Sources
David Calleo, The German problem reconsidered: Germany and the world
order, 1870 to the present, (Cambridge, 1978), chapter 2.
Holger H. Herwig, ‘Strategic Uncertainties of a Nation-State:
Prussia-Germany, 1871-1918’, in Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox and Alvin Bernstein, eds., The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), chapter 9.
Henry Kissinger, ‘The White Revolutionary: Reflections on Bismarck’, Daedalus 97, no. 3 (Summer 1968): 888-924.
Seminar 5: Imperial Geopolitics, 1890-1905
Primary SourcesTheodore Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress, 6 December 1904.
H.J. Mackinder, "The Geographical Pivot of History", Geographical Journal 23, no. 6 (April 1904), 421-423, 432- 437, and commentary.
A.T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) (New York: Dover Publications, 1987), pp. 1-12, 25-89.
Secondary Sources
Aaron L. Friedberg (1987), Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905, in Journal of Strategic Studies, 10:3, pp. 331-362, (UL: South Front, Floor 6 (P422.c.41 [p/hole: C.420] ) and other locations).
Robert Kagan, Dangerous nation: America’s place in the world from its earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century (New York, 2006), Chapt. 12.
Charlie Laderman, ‘The Invasion of America by an Englishman: E.D. Morel and the Anglo-American Intervention in the Congo,’ in William Mulligan (ed.) The Politics and Culture of Anti-Slavery Movements in Global Perspective (Palgrave, 2013) (See Moodle).
William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy, (University of California Press, 1980), Chapter IV “Theodorus Pacificus”.
Seminar 6: The Great War (1906-1918)
Primary SourcesEyre Crowe, “Memorandum on the Present State of British Relations with France and Germany” (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memorandum_on_the_Present_State_of_British_Relations_with_France_and_Germany).
Secondary Sources
Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War, (London, 1998), chapt. 3.
Fritz Fischer, Germany’s Aims in the First World War (New York, 1967), chapters 1 & 2.
Otte, T.G., ‘”Almost a Law of Nature “? Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Office, and the Balance of Power in Europe, 1905-12’, Diplomacy and Statecraft 14:2 (2003), pp.77-118.
Seminar 7: Utopian Geopolitics (1), 1917-1924
Primary SourcesJohn Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, (London, 1919).
Halford Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality: A study in the politics of reconstruction, (New York, 1919).
Woodrow Wilson, Address to the U.S. Senate, Jan. 22, 1917.
Secondary Sources
Margaret Macmillan, Peacemakers: the Paris Conference of 1919 and its Attempt to End War, (London, 2001).
Alan Sharp, ‘The enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1923’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 16 (2005), pp. 423-438.
Seminar 8: Utopian Geopolitics (2), 1924-1940
Primary SourcesAdolf Hitler, Gerhard Weinberg (ed.), Hitler’s Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, (Enigma Books: annotated edition, 2006).
“The Hossbach Memorandum,” (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/hossbach.asp).
Secondary Sources
B.J.C. McKercher - Deterrence and the European Balance of Power: The
Field Force and British Grand Strategy, 1934-1938, English Historical
Review, 123 (2008).
Gerhard L. Weinberg, "Hitler's Image of the United States," American
Historical Review, 69, No. 4, (July, 1964), pp. 1006-1021.
David Reynolds, ‘1940: fulcrum of the twentieth century?’, International Affairs, 66/2 (1990), 325-350.
Seminar 9: World War and Superpowers, 1940-1947
Primary Sources
“The Atlantic Charter”, (http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_16912.htm).
George F. Kennan, “The Long Telegram” (http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/documents/pdf/6-6.pdf).
Secondary Sources
Nicholas J. Cull, ‘Selling Peace: The Origins, Promotion and Fate of the Anglo-American New Order during the Second World War’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 7/1 (March 1996), pp. 1-28.
David Reynolds, From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt and the International History of the 1940s, (Oxford, 2006).
Thompson, John A., ‘Conceptions of national security and American entry into world war II’, in Diplomacy and statecraft, 16 (2005), 671-697.
Kissinger, Henry A., Nuclear weapons and foreign policy (New York, 1957).
Secondary Sources
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, revised and expanded edition (New York, 2005) Chapters 1-8. (Available online as an E-Book via iDiscover).
Jussi M. Hanhimaeki, ‘Détente in Europe, 1962-1975’, in Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Volume II. Crises and détente.
David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century, (New York, 1991), Chapters 7 and 8.
Klaus Schwabe, ‘The Cold War and European integration, 1947-63’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 12/4 (December 2001).
Ken Coates, ‘European nuclear disarmament’, Spokesman 38 (1980) (contains the text of the Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament, April 1980’.
‘Common sense and the common danger. Policy statement of the Committee on the present danger’, in Charles Tyroler II (ed.), Alerting America: the papers of the Committee on the present danger introduced by Max M. Kampelman (Washington D.C., 1984).
“Kissinger Memorandums”, GWU National Security Archives (see Moodle).
Secondary Sources
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, revised and expanded edition (New York, 2005) Chapters 9 and 10.
David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century, (New York, 1991), Chapters 9 and 10.
Tony Smith, America’s mission. The United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy in the twentieth century, (Princeton N.J., 1994), chapter 9.
George H. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, (New York, 1998), chapter 6.
Secondary Sources
Michael Cox and Steven Hurst, ‘”His Finest Hour?” George Bush and the Diplomacy of German Unification’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 13/4 (December 2002), pp. 123-150.
From Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War (New York: 2011).
Beth A. Fischer, “US Foreign Policy under Reagan and Bush,” vol. III, pp. 267-88.
Archie Brown, “The Gorbachev Revolution and the End of the Cold War,” vol. III, 244-66.
John Lewis Gaddis, “Grand Strategies in the Cold War,” II, 1-21.
Francis Fukuyama, ‘The end of History?’ in The National Interest, Summer 1989.
Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, (New York, 2003).
Robert Kagan, The World America Made, (Vintage, 2013).
Fareed Zakaria, Post-American World, (New York, 2008).
George F. Kennan, “The Long Telegram” (http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/documents/pdf/6-6.pdf).
Secondary Sources
Nicholas J. Cull, ‘Selling Peace: The Origins, Promotion and Fate of the Anglo-American New Order during the Second World War’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 7/1 (March 1996), pp. 1-28.
David Reynolds, From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt and the International History of the 1940s, (Oxford, 2006).
Thompson, John A., ‘Conceptions of national security and American entry into world war II’, in Diplomacy and statecraft, 16 (2005), 671-697.
Seminar 10: Partitions, 1947-1972
Primary SourcesKissinger, Henry A., Nuclear weapons and foreign policy (New York, 1957).
Secondary Sources
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, revised and expanded edition (New York, 2005) Chapters 1-8. (Available online as an E-Book via iDiscover).
Jussi M. Hanhimaeki, ‘Détente in Europe, 1962-1975’, in Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Volume II. Crises and détente.
David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century, (New York, 1991), Chapters 7 and 8.
Klaus Schwabe, ‘The Cold War and European integration, 1947-63’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 12/4 (December 2001).
Seminar 11: The Rise of Democratic Geopolitics, 1973-1985
Primary SourcesKen Coates, ‘European nuclear disarmament’, Spokesman 38 (1980) (contains the text of the Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament, April 1980’.
‘Common sense and the common danger. Policy statement of the Committee on the present danger’, in Charles Tyroler II (ed.), Alerting America: the papers of the Committee on the present danger introduced by Max M. Kampelman (Washington D.C., 1984).
“Kissinger Memorandums”, GWU National Security Archives (see Moodle).
Secondary Sources
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, revised and expanded edition (New York, 2005) Chapters 9 and 10.
David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century, (New York, 1991), Chapters 9 and 10.
Tony Smith, America’s mission. The United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy in the twentieth century, (Princeton N.J., 1994), chapter 9.
Seminar 12: The Triumph of Democratic Geopolitics, 1986-1992
Primary SourcesGeorge H. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, (New York, 1998), chapter 6.
Secondary Sources
Michael Cox and Steven Hurst, ‘”His Finest Hour?” George Bush and the Diplomacy of German Unification’, in Diplomacy and Statecraft, 13/4 (December 2002), pp. 123-150.
From Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War (New York: 2011).
Beth A. Fischer, “US Foreign Policy under Reagan and Bush,” vol. III, pp. 267-88.
Archie Brown, “The Gorbachev Revolution and the End of the Cold War,” vol. III, 244-66.
John Lewis Gaddis, “Grand Strategies in the Cold War,” II, 1-21.
Seminar 13: Visions of the New World Order, 1993 -
Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations, (London, 2004) Parts 1 and 3.Francis Fukuyama, ‘The end of History?’ in The National Interest, Summer 1989.
Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, (New York, 2003).
Robert Kagan, The World America Made, (Vintage, 2013).
Fareed Zakaria, Post-American World, (New York, 2008).
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