My last semester at Augsburg started on Monday! I think its gonna be an awsome semester. I have a history class called The History of U.S Foreign Policy, my senior Keystone History class, Honors for international relations, and my internship at the Minnesota Historical Society. My history of U.S foreign policy class is monday, wednesday and friday so I've already had two classes. I am really excited for this class, my professor seems really passionate about U.S history and analyzing foreign policy.
Our homework for monday was reading five articles about analyzing foreign policy. Each article took a new approach in looking at foreign policy. All were convincing in offering an important way to analyze foreign policy. Two of the approaches written about were gender and bureaucratic approaches. The gender approach was interesting in looking at war and national security was a masculine and feminine issue.
For example, the author wrote about the United States' relations with Cuba and in 1899 President McKinley and other congressmen wrote about the need for the U.S to invade Cuba as its manly duty- to protect the weak feminine Cuba. The cartoons from this time properly portrayed this way of the United States acting in foreign policy. Today in class we had a great discussion about which approach we felt most convincing- great class!!