Course Description: This course is designed to deepen students’ understanding of crucial challenges to international security and the options available to address them in a rapidly changing world. It is designed as a discourse between U.S. policymakers, dominant players in the global system after World War II, and new policymaking actors who are emerging with different views of what makes for a stable and prosperous future. By studying crises old and new, students will examine what the United States has done right and what it has done wrong in the decades of its leadership. They will be asked to contrast the U.S. record with the wealth of policy ideas that are emerging in new countries stepping forward to leadership—the growing BRICS and regional communities in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. In that way, students will develop an understanding of new potential to tackle international security problems.

Course Days and Times: Tuesday/Thursday 1:30 pm-2:50 pm PT

Classroom: Encina Hall West 101

Instructor Contact Details: Rose Gottemoeller, gottemoeller@stanford.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday in Encina Hall C-225, from 3:00-4:00 pm (immediately after class).