March 2007

Identify and give the significance of:

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) | Richard Haass

 

Council for the National Interest | habeas corpus | Zbigniew Brzezinski

 

Qibya raid | Dimona | President Ahmedinejad | President Hosni Mubarak

 

Mark Twain | Neoconservatives in the G.W. Bush Administration

 

Ariel Sharon | Green Zone (Baghdad) | Lewis "Scooter" Libby

 

Oslo peace accords | Desert Shield | Desert Storm | Groupthink Syndrome

 

Paul Findley | Professors Mearsheimer and Walt | Council on Foreign Relations

 

Ehud Olmert | Pat Buchanan | Balfour Declaration

 

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid | Mahmoud Abbas | International Quartet's Roadmap

 

Rational Actor model of decision-making | Bureacratic politics model

 

Bush Doctrine | Ambassador Joseph Wilson | Iraq Study Group Report

legislative veto | Arms Export Control Act | Gulf of Aqaba

UN Resolution 242 | Madrid Conference | Yom Kippur/Ramadan/October War

Camp David II (July 2000) | Madelaine Albright | Yasser Arafat

Oil Embargo | OPEC | OAPEC | USS Liberty | "Home Porking"

Condoleezza Rice | Likud Party | Second Intifada (Palestine)

June 1967 War | Strait of Tiran | Camp David Accords

 

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

• Principles and dilemmas of US democratic foreign policymaking.
• Relationship between the executive branch and the Congress in the conduct of foreign policy.
• The foreign policy elites and their impact on foreign decision-making.
• Significance of lobbies in influencing US foreign policy. How consistent are they with US national interests?