January 29th
Multipurpose Room: University Heights North Complex
Panel Coordinator: Prof. Gregory Gause (Political Science)
- Panelists:
- Prof. Gregory Gause (UVM Political
Science)
- Prof. Travis
Nelson (UVM Political Science)
- Professor Nicole Phelps (UVM History)
- Prof. Mark
Williams (Middlebury Political Science)
- Suggested Readings:
- 200 Years of History, in a nutshell
- Secretary
of State John Quincy Adams’ speech to the House of Representatives,
July 4, 1821:
- Pres. Woodrow
Wilson’s address to Congress, April 2, 1917, asking for a
declaration of war on Germany:
- Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, “The Moral Foundations of
Foreign Policy,” address to the Upper Midwest Council, July 15, 1975 in
Henry A. Kissinger, American Foreign Policy (3rd edition), (New
York: Norton, 1975)
- National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, “From
Containment to Enlargement,” address to School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, September 21, 2003:
- Max Boot, “Neither New
nor Nefarious: The Liberal Empire Strikes Back,” Current
History (November 2003)
- b) The Bush Administration
- Pres.
George W. Bush’s address to the American Enterprise Institute, February
26, 2003, on Iraq:
- Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice’s address at the American University in
Cairo, June 20, 2005:
- F. Gregory Gause, III, “Can
Democracy Stop Terrorism?” Foreign Affairs (September/October
2005):
- David Finkel, “U.S.
Ideals Meet Reality in Yemen,” Washington Post, December 18,
2005. This is the first of a two-part series on an actual
democracy-promotion effort in the Middle East. The link is to the
first article; the link to the second is on the first: