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    Mar 28, 2024  
American University Catalog 2018-2019 
    
American University Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SIS-688 Domestic Sources of United States Foreign Policy (3)


This course examines how domestic politics affects foreign policy decision-making. Topics include the influence of the media, public opinion and interest groups on the formulation and implementation of foreign policy, importance of foreign policy to a president’s popularity and electability, presidential attempts to sell national security issues, the “rally-‘round-the flag” phenomenon, obstacles posed by congressional partisan politics, press-government relations in war time, and the politics of military interventions.