Note: THIS IS NOT THE COURSE WEBSITE. FOR THE COURSE WEBSITE SEE THE SYLLABUS MATERIAL HANDED OUT IN CLASS.
Political Science 552,
Autumn 2004 17022-0
Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio
Security Policy During and After the Cold War
Tuesday, Thursday, 3:30-5:18, LZ 0021
John Mueller
Derby 2112 and Mershon Center
(8th and Neil) 220D
Department of Political
Science
614-247-6007
614-292-2407 (fax)
bbbb@osu.edu
http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller
Office hours:
Wednesday 11:00-12:00 Wednesday,
Mershon Center 220D
Thursday
1:00-2:00 Derby 2112
Or by appointment at bbbb@osu.edu
The course will deal with national security and military policy issues as they have emerged and changed during and after the Cold War. The material will be presented roughly in chronological order beginning with the framing of the containment and deterrence policies at the end of World War II and concluding with an examination of national security policy issues confronting the United States and the world at the present time. Included will be discussions of such concerns as the Korean War, the Berlin and Cuban crises, Vietnam, the Iran hostage crisis, missile imbalances in Europe, the demise of the Cold War and of the Soviet Union, the unification of Europe, the Gulf War, ethnic conflict, economic sanctions, terrorism, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the proliferation of "weapons of mass destruction," and the rise of democracy and capitalism on a global basis. Of particular interest will be an assessment of broad historical trends as they have played out since 1945.
The course will be in lecture format, with ample opportunity for questions and discussion. There will be considerable use of Powerpoint slides as well as documentary material on videotape.
Grading. There will be a midterm and a final examination as well as an optional 4 to 6 page paper (due during the last week of classes). If the student does not submit a paper, the midterm exam will count for 1/3 of the grade and the final exam will count 2/3. If the student does submit a paper, the midterm exam will count for 1/3 of the grade, the final exam will count 1/3, and the paper 1/3. The advantage of doing the paper is that it allows the student to focus on a topic of interest and it allows the grade to be partly based on something other than exams. The exams will be about half objective (short answer, identification, etc.) and half essay. Copies of previous exams will be available on the course website.
There are five assigned books:
Lundestad, East, West, North, South (Fourth edition, 1999)
DiPrizio, Armed Humanitarians (won't be used until after the mid-term exam)
Mueller, The Remnants
of War
This book will be out in
September. Amazon.com is currently taking orders for it at $20.37,
a 32% discount.
Laqueur, No End to War
Amazon.com is currently selling this book for $16.97,
a 32% discount.
Johnson, Improbable Dangers
This book will be available
in three ways:
1. on reserve in the Main
Library
2. as a downloadable PDF
file:
Improbable
Dangers: complete book
Improbable Dangers: text only,
no notes or index
3. as a coursepack that
can be purchased for under $30 on line through www.zippublishing.com
COURSE OUTLINE (subject to change)
Thursday, September 23
Lessons from the 1930s; the relevance of Munich
The atomic bomb; Hiroshima
Tuesday, September 28
Soviet ideology and the policy of containment, the Truman
Doctrine
The relevance of nuclear weapons
Thursday, September 30
The development of deterrence
China; The Korean War; "limited war"
Tuesday, October 5
Hiss, Chambers, atomic spies, McCarthyism
Eisenhower policy
Germany, Hungary, Suez, Congo
The rise of Khrushchev; Sputnik, missiles, and the space
race
Thursday, October 7
The "delicate balance of terror"
The Sino Soviet split; Khrushchev and crisis; Berlin;
Castro and Cuba
Tuesday, October 12
The Cuban missile crisis, the Test Ban treaty
End of the classic Cold War
The wars in Indochina and in Vietnam; political controversies
Thursday, October 14
Vietnam: the ending
Tuesday, October 19
China: the Cultural Revolution, Nixon's visit
China drops out of the Cold War
Watergate
Detente, arms control, SALT I and SALT II
The correlation of forces, 1975-1979
Thursday, October 21
The Reagan doctrine: Afghanistan, Grenada, Nicaragua
The Iran hostage crisis, 1979-81
Terrorism during the Cold War
SDI; missiles in Europe
Tuesday, October 26
Iran-Contra controversy
The rise of Gorbachev
Missile agreements; changes in the Cold War policies
The end of the Cold War in Europe; the fall of the Wall
Thursday, October 28 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Tuesday, November 2
Russia and China after the Cold War
The breakup of the Soviet Union; the rise of Yeltsin;
Chechnya; Putin
Changes in China, Tiananmen
Thursday, November 9
Ordering the new world
Panama and the Gulf War of 1991
Thursday, November 11: Veterans Day no class
Tuesday, November 16
Sanctions and Iraq in the 1990s
"Ethnic conflict" in Yugoslavia and elsewhere
Thursday, November 18
Civil war after the Cold War
Somalia and "Black Hawk Down"
Genocide in Rwanda
North Korea, Haiti
Tuesday, November 23
Yugoslavia after Dayton
Weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and "rogue states"
Terrorism in the new century: September 11
Thursday, November 25: Thanksgiving no class
Tuesday, November 30 PAPERS DUE
Mideast and Israel
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Thursday, December 2
The results of the Iraq War
The rise of democracy
Changing attitudes toward war and war patterns 1945-2004
Capitalism and globalization
Conclusions and overall reflections
Tuesday, December 7 FINAL EXAMINATION (3:30-5:18)