Ashbrook Teacher Institute. Schedule Overview

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1 Ashbrook Teacher Institute Ideas and Traditions in American Foreign Relations Sunday, July 11, 2004 to Friday, July 16, 2004 Instructors: John Moser and Jeremi Suri Sunday, July 11 Schedule Overview 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Check into Apartments (Senior Apartments, Ashland University) 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm: Introduction to Ashbrook Teacher Institutes with Peter Schramm and Roger Beckett (Heritage Room, Myers Convocation Center) 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm: Dinner (Heritage Room, Myers Convocation Center, Ashland University) 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm: Identifying Ideas and Traditions in American Foreign Policy, with Professors Moser and Suri (Ashbrook Center, 8 th Floor, Ashland University Library) Monday, July 12 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Jeffersonian Republicanism and the American Revolution, with Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Republicanism versus Federalism, with Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Republicanism and Manifest Destiny, with Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Republicanism and Anti-Imperialism, with Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Tuesday, July 13 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Adams, Franklin, and Early American Nationalism, with Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: John Quincy Adams and Nationalist Realism, with Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Lincoln, Seward, and National Union, with Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 1

2 Wednesday, July 14 9:00 am - 10:30 am: TR and the Balance of Power, with Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Balance of Power in the 1920s, with Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Kennan, Truman, and Cold War Containment, with Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Henry Kissinger and Détente, with Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Thursday, July 15 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Woodrow Wilson and World War I, with Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: FDR as Halfway Wilsonian, with Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Art of Teaching Seminar with Professor Schramm (Ashbrook Center, 8 th Floor, Ashland University Library) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Teaching Brainstorming Session (Ashbrook Center) Friday, July 16 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Wilsonianism in the Cold War and Beyond, with Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: The Future of American Foreign Policy, with Professors Moser and Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Boxed Lunch/Check Out of Apartments (Lobby of Apartment Building A) 2

3 Ashbrook Teacher Institute Ideas and Traditions in American Foreign Relations Sunday, July 11, 2004 to Friday, July 16, 2004 Ashland University Instructors: John Moser and Jeremi Suri Readings Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961). Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987). Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (New York: Vintage Books, 2003). Walter McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776 (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997). Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World (New York: Routledge, 2002). John E. Moser, Twisting the Lion s Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars (New York: New York University Press, 1999). Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003). Sunday, July 11 Schedule 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Check into Apartments (Senior Apartments, Ashland University) 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm: Introduction to Ashbrook Teacher Institutes with Peter Schramm and Roger Beckett (Heritage Room, Myers Convocation Center) 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm: Dinner (Heritage Room, Myers Convocation Center, Ashland University) 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm: Professors Moser and Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Identifying Ideas and Traditions in American Foreign Policy Focus: To what extent has American foreign policy been influenced by a consistent set of ideas and principles? In this seminar we have chosen to concentrate on republicanism, nationalism, balance of power, and Wilsonianism. What is meant by each of these concepts? Are there others that might profitably be examined as well? 3

4 Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Mead, Special Providence, pp Monday, July 12 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Jeffersonian Republicanism and the American Revolution Focus: What were the assumptions about republicanism that guided early American foreign policy? How did republican assumptions differentiate American diplomacy from the practices of European counterparts? How did republican foreign policy relate to domestic policy? Gilbert, To the Farewell Address, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Washington s Neutrality Proclamation, April 22, (Photocopied Reading Thomas Jefferson s Opinion on the French Treaties, April 28, 1793 (Photocopied Reading Thomas Jefferson s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1805 (Photocopied Reading 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Republicanism versus Federalism Focus: The first partisan division in American history, between Jeffersonian Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists, dominated politics from the 1790s through the War of How did this division manifest itself in foreign affairs? In what sense did the positions of each represent specific regional and class interests, and to what extent did they reflect deeply-held beliefs about the nature of the republic? Gilbert, To the Farewell Address, pp Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp The Pacificus-Helvidius Debate, (Photocopied Reading Debates on American Neutrality, Selections (Photocopied Reading 4

5 Declaration of the War of Selections (Photocopied Reading The New England Threat of Secession, (Photocopied Reading 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Republicanism and Manifest Destiny Focus: During the mid-19 th century westward expansion dominated American foreign policy. What role did republican ideas play in this period? How did westward expansion transform Jeffersonian republican assumptions? McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Mead, Special Providence, pp Thomas Jefferson, Third Annual Message to Congress, October 17, (Photocopied Reading John L. O Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, (Photocopied Reading Homestead Act, May 20, (Photocopied Reading 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Republicanism and Anti-Imperialism Focus: During the 1890s the United States found itself in possession of overseas territories such as the Philippines and Guam. Why did so many Americans oppose this? How did they define empire, and how did they believe that it would threaten republican ideals? Were their fears well founded? Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Henry Van Dyke, The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage. (Photocopied Reading Albert Beveridge in Support of an American Empire. (Photocopied Reading 5

6 Tuesday, July 13 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Adams, Franklin, and Early American Nationalism Focus: Some historians have argued that the idea of American nationalism preceded the existence of a true American nation. What were the sources of early American nationalism? How did early American nationalism influence the ways Americans interacted with the wider world? Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Albany Plan of Union, (Photocopied Reading Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, February 6, (Photocopied Reading Treaty of Alliance with France, February 6, (Photocopied Reading 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: John Quincy Adams and Nationalist Realism Focus: By many accounts, John Quincy Adams remains the most impressive foreign policy statesman in American history. How did his policies merge popular nationalism with a sophisticated understanding of international realism? How did his statements and policies influence the future course of American foreign relations? McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Mead, Special Providence, pp Monroe Doctrine, December 2, (Photocopied Reading John Quincy Adams Inaugural Address, March 4, (Photocopied Reading 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 6

7 Topic: Lincoln, Seward, and National Union Focus: Lincoln and his secretary of state asserted the primacy of the nation over the states. What were the implications of this for foreign policy? In what sense is it fair to say that the Civil War created or at least redefined the notion of American nationalism? Lincoln s First Inaugural Address, March 4, (Photocopied Reading William H. Seward to William L. Dayton, June 17, (Photocopied Reading Seward on the Right of a Nation to Defend its Existence, August (Photocopied Reading Seward, the National Interest, and the Trent Case, December (Photocopied Reading Seward and the American Doctrine of Nonintervention, May (Photocopied Reading William H. Seward to William L. Dayton, September 26, (Photocopied Reading Wednesday, July 14 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: TR and the Balance of Power Focus: Theodore Roosevelt s presidency marked the emergence of the United States as a global power in the early 20 th century. TR was a student of both American republicanism and the classical European balance of power. How did TR reconcile these two schools of thought as the United States grew in international stature? How did TR insert the United States into the European balance of power system? McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp TR, True Americanism, The Forum Magazine, April (Photocopied Reading Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, (Photocopied Reading TR, Inaugural Speech, March 4, (Photocopied Reading TR, The New Nationalism, August 31, (Photocopied Reading 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 7

8 Topic: Balance of Power in the 1920s Focus: The 1920s has long been portrayed as a period in which the United States retreated into isolationism. How valid is this assessment? In which ways did the United States separate itself from world affairs? In what sense did it remain involved? Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp Moser, Twisting the Lion s Tail, pp Calvin Coolidge s Inaugural Address, (Photocopied Reading Calvin Coolidge, Intervention in Nicaragua, (Photocopied Reading Kellogg-Briand Pact, (Photocopied Reading Edwin Borchard, The Multilateral Pact Renunciation of War, (Photocopied Reading The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, (Photocopied Reading 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Kennan, Truman, and Cold War Containment Focus: In 1940 most Americans did not believe that the German conquest of France represented a threat to national security; ten years later, however, they were prepared to see U.S. troops fighting to protect South Korea. Why did the Truman administration adopt containment as its foreign policy? In what sense was this an outgrowth of traditional balance-of-power diplomacy? How was containment understood by Truman and his successors? Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Moser, Twisting the Lion s Tail, pp George Kennan, Excerpts from the Long Telegram, February 22, (Photocopied Reading The Truman Doctrine, March 12, (Photocopied Reading NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, April 14, (Photocopied Reading 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) 8

9 Topic: Henry Kissinger and Détente Focus: Henry Kissinger is the most controversial figure in the recent history of American foreign relations. His policies of détente reduced the role of ideology and increased the influence of the balance of power in America s Cold War diplomacy. How did Kissinger, President Nixon, and others pursue détente? What were its implications for the Cold War and the international system as a whole? Suri, Power and Protest, 1-43, Memoranda of Conversation from Nixon and Kissinger s trip to China, February 1972 (Photocopied Reading o February 22, 1972, 2:10 p.m. 6:10 p.m. o February 23, 1972, 2:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. o February 24, 1972, 5:15 p.m. 8:05 p.m. o February 23, 1972, 9:35 a.m. 12:34 p.m. Thursday, July 15 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Woodrow Wilson and World War I Focus: Few American presidents have had as lasting an influence on American foreign policy as Wilson. Was his effort to interject idealism into international affairs represent a naïve attempt to deny reality, or was it a legitimate effort to bring much-needed reform to the conduct of diplomacy? Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Mead, Special Providence, pp Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, April 2, (Photocopied Reading Speeches by Senators Norris and LaFollette opposing US entry into World War I, (Photocopied Reading Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points, January 8, (Photocopied Reading Woodrow Wilson, The League of Nations, (Photocopied Reading Reservations drawn up by Republican Senators to the Treaty of Peace with Germany, November (Photocopied Reading 9

10 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Professor Moser (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: FDR as Halfway Wilsonian Focus: Historians have often found Franklin Roosevelt difficult to pin down on foreign policy (and on everything else, for that matter). To what extent could he be viewed as continuing in the tradition of Wilsonian idealism? How much of this was leavened by faith in the balance of power? Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp Moser, Twisting the Lion s Tail, pp Address by Secretary of State Hull, March 17, (Photocopied Reading Gerald P. Nye, Is Neutrality Possible for America? (Photocopied Reading Radio Address by President Roosevelt, December 29, (Photocopied Reading Dumbarton Oaks Proposals for a General International Organization, (Photocopied Reading President Roosevelt s Report to Congress on the Crimea Conference, (Photocopied Reading 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Art of Teaching Seminar with Professor Schramm (Ashbrook Center, 8 th Floor, Ashland University Library) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Teaching Brainstorming Session (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Friday, July 16 9:00 am - 10:30 am: Professor Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: Wilsonianism in the Cold War and Beyond Focus: Wilsonian ideas outlived Wilson and FDR. They underpinned much of the anticommunist rhetoric in the Cold War. They found adherents in both the Democratic and 10

11 Republican parties. Why did Wilsonian ideas remain so influential? How did they influence particular policies? What is their role in a post-cold War world? Suri, Power and Protest, pp McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, pp National Security Strategy of the United States of America, September (Photocopied Reading 10:50 am - 12:20 pm: Professors Moser and Suri (Seminar Room, Lower Level, Founders Hall) Topic: The Future of American Foreign Policy Focus: We are living through a critical stage in American Foreign Relations. In what sense can the ideas and traditions that we have examined in this seminar be applied to the War on Terror and other aspects of the current administration s foreign policy? Which ideas and traditions are likely to play a leading role in shaping American diplomacy in the next generation? Kagan, Of Paradise and Power. Suri, Power and Protest, pp Mead, Special Providence, pp :30 pm - 2:00 pm: Boxed Lunch/Check Out of Apartments (Lobby of Apartment Building A) 11