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Welcome to Professor Clement M. Henry's class on Issues and Policies of American Government: The United States and the Middle East (Government 312L).
This course analyzes U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East since World War II: We will examine our traditional policies of containing communism, protecting oil and other U.S. interests and promoting Israel, and the new one of waging "war on terror." Two Camp Davids (1978, 2000), Irangate (1984-86), and U.S. interventions in Lebanon (1982-84, 2005-06), Iraq (2003-??), Libya (1983, 1985), in three Gulf Wars (1980-2003), and in Afganistan will be critically reviewed, as will the various domestic political forces that shape perceptions of U.S. national interests and foreign policy decision-making processes. Students will learn about these processes in class and through computer conferencing with each other as well as with the instructor and teaching assistants. What advice can we offer the new Obama Administration?
9 January 2011 - Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin., Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to chenry@mail.utexas.edu