LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Science 3617 WA
Foreign Policy Decision Making
Dr. Laure Paquette Winter 2004
Office: RB2020 Monday & Wednesday: 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Telephone: 3438237 CB 4070
email:
Office Hours
Wednesdays 11:30-12:30, and by appointment
Textbook Laure Paquette, Strategic Intervention (cd-rom), Laure Paquette, Path to Peace
Assignments and Grading Assigned Worksheets...... 60%
Guided Analysis of Case…………………10%
Integration Reports...... 30%
Integration reports and worksheets are due on the following class. Students choose which case they wish to present to the class. There is a 20% bonus for presenting in week 5; there is a 10% bonus for presenting in week 6. For each case, the students must present the primary material and facilitate the class’s work through the multiple steps of the analysis.
Course Objective to familiarize students with the decision making processes in various countries; develop the capacity for the analysis of those decisions; develop the skills necessary for intervention in those processes or institutions
Course Contents theoretical introduction, demonstration of analysis on cases chosen by professor, analysis of case studies of foreign policy decisions at the stand-alone, bilateral, multilateral levels involving states and groups of states. Case studies are selected in collaboration with the students.
Week 1 Introduction to course, Introduction to theory
Week 2 Introduction to methodology
Week 3 Case study: Canada-US Softwood Lumber Dispute
Week 4 Case study: Bush and the War on Terror
Week 5 stand alone decision in foreign policy: one state
Week 6 Stand alone decision in foreign policy: one group of states
Week 7 bilateral decision in foreign policy: two states
Week 8 Bilateral decision in foreign policy: one state, one group of states
Week 9 Multilateral decision in foreign policy: several states
Week 10 Multilateral decision in foreign policy: several states and groups of states
Week 11 Multilateral decision in foreign policy: groups of states only
Week 12 Tailoring the methodology to the situation