PO 358 - Foreign Policy Making in Washington

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This course focuses on foreign policy making as practiced in Washington, D.C.; it examines how politicians, lobbyists, citizens, and diplomats interact in and around Washington’s corridors of power to determine international policy outcomes. Firsthand insights gained through dialogue with those who make and implement policy and close scrutiny of key international issues provide students with a ”laboratory” for understanding the politics of foreign policy making in the U.S. capital, how these policies are shaped, and why they succeed or fail to achieve their stated objectives. (U) Occasionally