February 2007

Identify and give the significance of:

Kennedy New Frontier | Truman Doctrine | Monroe Doctrine | Mark Twain

Eisenhower Doctrine | The Power Game | United States vs. Curtiss-Wright Corp.

Balfour Declaration | UNSCOP (UN Special Commission on Palestiune)

Economic Security Council | Baghdad Pact | John Foster Dulles

Camp David | Nixon Doctrine | "soft power" (Joe Nye)

Aswan High Dam | War Powers Resolution | Suez War of 1956

Strait of Tiran | Ariel Sharon | David Ben Gurion

Gamal Abdul Nasser | George C. Marshall | Lend Lease Act

legislative veto | Arms Export Control Act | Gulf of Aqaba

Anwar Sadat | Rogers Plan | Clash of Civilizations

Iron Triangle | Golan Heights | Henry Kissinger

Dissident Triangle | Gaza Strip | Scranton Mission

The "X" article , Foreign Affairs 1947 | George Kennan

Essay Question: You will have a choice of 2 essay questions, along themes like:

• Principles and dilemmas of US democratic foreign policymaking.
• realism in world affairs - what is reality?
• Relationship between the executive branch and the Congress in the conduct of foreign policy.

(You will be asked to illustrate your arguments with examples from US foreign policy toward Middle East.)