US Foreign Policy in Action: An Innovative Teaching Text

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of U.S. foreign policy development, introducing historical developments and theories while engaging students through innovative learning exercises. It covers contemporary challenges such as immigration policy, COVID-19, climate change, and the China trade war, emphasizing activism and engagement in the policy process. The Second Edition offers insights into the Biden administration's foreign policy challenges, stronger theoretical foundations, and updated discussions of online and hybrid learning. It includes critical historical analyses, active learning exercises, and web components, promoting creative and critical thinking about foreign policy actors and processes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 370 pages
Publication date: 05 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate dynamics of U.S. foreign policy development, offering a timely and insightful exploration of the subject matter. It provides a comprehensive introduction to historical developments and theories of U.S. foreign policy, engaging students through innovative learning exercises that promote direct and indirect participation in the politics and debates surrounding the foreign policy process.

The book offers a rich understanding of the complex politics behind contemporary foreign policy challenges, ranging from immigration policy controversies to COVID-19 pandemic responses, climate change, and the China trade war. These issues are presented in dynamic and engaging ways that focus on activism and engagement in the policy process, making this text particularly relevant to a new generation of college students who have become active in political activism.

The book is designed as a core text for courses on U.S. foreign policy at the 200-level or above, appealing to a broad audience interested in understanding the complexities of American foreign policy. In the Second Edition, the book has been updated to reflect the changing landscape of international relations. It provides insights into contemporary foreign policy challenges facing the Biden administration and future presidents, such as climate change, the rise of China, sanctions and trade policies, and changing U.S. engagement in the Middle East.

Furthermore, the book offers stronger theoretical foundations for the study of domestic constraints in the foreign policy decision-making process, including the power of interest groups and political polarization in Congress. It also explores pedagogical treatments of online and hybrid learning applications, presenting new exercises that engage students both in person in the classroom and online.

In addition, the book presents more detailed and critical historical analyses of U.S. foreign policy, including greater attention to the U.S. as an imperial power and its implications for politics and society. By examining the historical roots.

Weight: 720g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367616021
Edition number: 2 ed