Course Introduction-Course Introduction
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Course Introduction
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Course Overview
Power and Foreign Policy–The Inseparable Twins-Power and its Manifestations
What Is Power and Why Does Size Matter in World Politics?
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Hard Power, Soft Power, and Smart Power
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Measuring a Nation-State's Overall Power or Comprehensive National Power
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What Is the Present International Power Configuration?
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Recommended Reading: Hard Power, Soft Power, and Smart Power
Power and Foreign Policy–The Inseparable Twins-Foreign Policy and its Bases
What Exactly Is Foreign Policy?
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National Interests and the Determinants of Foreign Policy
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Do Only State Elites Conduct Foreign Policy?
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Essential Reading: India’s Foreign Policy
Power and Foreign Policy–The Inseparable Twins-Differences in Foreign Policy Approaches of Great, Middle, and Small Powers
Typical Attitudes and Outlooks of Great Powers
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Typical Attitudes and Outlooks of Middle Powers
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Typical Attitudes and Outlooks of Small Powers
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Recommended Reading: Foreign Policy Approaches
Power and Foreign Policy–The Inseparable Twins-Introduction to Peer Review Assignment
Introduction to Peer Review Assignment
Foreign Policy of Great Powers: Case Study–The United States of America-The Purposes of American Foreign Policy
Sustaining Primacy and the Global Balance of Power
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Preserving the Capitalist World Order
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Making the World Safe for Democracy
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Recommended Reading: Introduction in Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
Foreign Policy of Great Powers: Case Study–The United States of America-America’s Unipolar Moment
The Seismic Shift After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
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The Liberal Takeover and the Trend of Humanitarian Interventions
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The Global War on Terrorism: A Fatal Diversion from Great Power Competition
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Recommended Reading: Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
Foreign Policy of Great Powers: Case Study–The United States of America-Multipolarity and the Post-American World
Are we Entering Bipolarity or Multipolarity?
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Exiting the Forever Wars
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Reorienting US Foreign Policy to Face China
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Shifts in Domestic American Politics and an Inward Turn
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Recommended Reading: Emerging Powers in a Post-American World
Foreign Policy of Middle Powers: Case Study–India-Transformation into a Rising Middle Power
From the Hindu Rate of Growth to the Express Train
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From Estranged Democracies to Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership
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Strategic Diffidence to Strategic Assertion
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Recommended Reading: Emerging Powers in a Post-American World
Foreign Policy of Middle Powers: Case Study–India-India in Asia–Periphery to Centre Stage
A Net Provider of Security in the Indian Ocean Region
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To Intervene or Not in Smaller Neighboring Countries
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Rescue Diplomacy and Vaccine Diplomacy
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Regional Integration and Connectivity Strategies
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Essential Reading: Indian Foreign Policy: The Quest for Greatness
Foreign Policy of Middle Powers: Case Study–India-A Future Democratic Superpower
Narendra Modi’s Three Ds
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Idealism vs. Realism in Indian Foreign Policy
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A Multilateral Alliance of Democracies to Counterbalance China
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Recommended Reading: The Foreign Policy of India’s Prime Minister
Foreign Policy of Small Powers: Case Study–Qatar-Bandwagoning to the USA
The Watershed Moment of the Gulf War of 1990-91
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Military and Economic Interdependence with the West
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The Trump Disruption and the Qatar-Saudi Cold War
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The Role of Values in the US-Qatar Alliance
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Recommended Reading: Qatari-US Military Relations
Foreign Policy of Small Powers: Case Study–Qatar-Radical Soft Power Strategies
Iran and Qatar’s Zero Enemy Policy
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Picking up the Radical Palestinian Cause
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Teaming up with Erdogan’s Turkey
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Al Jazeera and the Forging of a Critical Arab Voice
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Recommended Reading: Reflecting on Qatar's "Islamist" Soft Power
Foreign Policy of Small Powers: Case Study–Qatar-Small State, Global Footprint
Energy Diplomacy as a Vehicle for Influence
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Mediating the War in Afghanistan
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Essential Reading: From Afghanistan to the World Cup, Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Steps Up
Course Wrap-Up-Course Wrap-Up
Course Wrap-Up
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