LPPP 7040 - Foreign Policy Failure: Case of US policy to China

Effective Date 02/25/2020
Within a few years of the Tiananmen Crisis of 1989, US & Chinese leaders launched efforts to build a more stable & cooperative relationship. By the 2016 American presidential election there was a growing consensus in the US that many strategies had failed. What went wrong? Was American China policy based on faulty assumptions? Was it poorly implemented? This course examines the causes of foreign policy failure, using the case of American policy towards China.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis Student Option