The Diminished Superpower: American Foreign Policy in the Obama Era

The Diminished Superpower: American Foreign Policy in the Obama Era is a Social Science course taught by Michael Klare.

Course Description
This course will examine the nature of violent conflict in the current era, looking not only at conventional warfare among nation-states but also at unconventional forms of warfare, including terrorism, insurgency, ethnic warfare, civil disorder, and criminal violence. The aim of the course will be to gain insight into the causes, characteristics, and consequences of contemporary conflict, with the intent of devising better preventative and ameliorative measures. Students will be expected to follow current world affairs closely and to choose a particular conflict or subset of conflicts for close inspection and analysis, reporting on their findings in class.