* Succinctly presents the core content of all US foreign policy courses covering history, theory, institutions, leadership, actors, and the military, allowing professors to cover the essentials expeditiously and providing extra time to engage active learning simulations and strategies.
* Interlaces case studies and in action chapters with the core content, providing background information, document templates, worksheets, suggested readings, films and documentaries, among several other features, helping students cement knowledge through active participation in real-life foreign policy dilemmas including the Covid-19 pandemic. Tables, figures, boxes, and photos round out the visually engaging presentation. *
Provides online Web resources for both students and instructors including an Introduction to Active Teaching and Learning, Structured Debates, Role-Playing Simulations, Teaching Case Studies, and Group Research Presentations plus bonus exercises-augmenting the text and reinforcing its active-learning orientation. Student resources include annotated Online Resources, Teaching and Learning with Film, among others.
New to the Second Edition:
Provides insights on contemporary foreign policy challenges facing the Biden administration and future presidents such as climate change, the rise of China, sanctions and trade policies, and changing U.S. engagement in the Middle East.
Offers stronger theoretical foundations for the study of domestic constraints in the foreign policy decision-making process, including the power of interest groups and political polarization in Congress.
Explains pedagogical treatments of online and hybrid learning applications, along with presenting new exercises to engage students both in-person in the classroom and online.
Presents more detailed and critical historical analyses of U.S. foreign policy, including greater attention to the United States as an imperial power and its implications for politics and society.
Creates new and exciting active learning exercises for instructors and students, including role-playing simulations of global public health crisis management and group research projects on cybersecurity and immigration policy.
Enriches the graphics and illustrations of foreign policy actors and processes in a full-color presentation.
Analyzes contemporary foreign policy issues in the Trump and Biden administrations.
Adds new web components and features, some authored by undergraduate students who are becoming experts in U.S. foreign policy.
Includes new writing exercises and assignments designed to promote creative and critical thinking about foreign policy actors and processes.
