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Pir401 Foreign Policy Analysis Courseware
Pir401 Foreign Policy Analysis Courseware
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COURSE PARTICULARS
LECTURER’S DETAILS
Name: EmmaJimo
Qualifications: BA, PGDE, MA, MSc, MEd., PhD
Phone: 07032306834
E-mail: [email protected]
Area of Specialization: International Relations, Political Communication, Political
Leadership Development, North-South Development Dichotomy
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course focuses on the various frameworks of analysis in the study of foreign policy. The
processes of decision making, institutions and structures, personal idiosyncrasies involved in the
foreign policy making and implementation; the psychological and operational environments as
perceived by decision makers, the dynamic nature of foreign policy and the attendant challenges;
instruments of foreign policy implementation; specific case studies, relating to decision making
and implementation.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
The course is designed to expose the student to the whole field of discussion by scholars. This is
with a view to ensuring students' deep understanding of and familiarity with the various
approaches/dimensions scholars have preoccupied themselves with.
ASSESSEMENT
Class Attendance: 5 Marks
Test(s) 35 Marks
Final Examination 60 Marks
LECTURE PLAN
Weeks Topics
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Week 4 Layers, perspectives or
levels of analysis of
foreign policy
Week 5 Instruments of foreign
policy – Political,
economic,
psychological,
military:
cases/samples
Week 6 Case studies in foreign
policy: Nigeria
Week 7 Case studies in foreign
policy: the United
States of America and
Russia
Week 8 Case studies in foreign
policy: China
Week 9 Case studies in foreign
policy: Cuban missile
crises, the 1979
Iranian revolution and
challenges in foreign
policy
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International responses
to the Arab Spring of
2010/2011
READING LIST
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20. Bloomfield, L. P. “The Foreign Policy Process: making Theory Relevant”
21. Bacchus, W. I., Foreign Policy and the Bureaucratic Process”
22. Frankel, J. “National Interest”
23. C. Beard “The Idea of National Interest”
24. J. N. Rosenau “The Scientific Study of Foreign Policy”
25. G. O. Olusanya and R. A. Akindele “The strucuture and Processes of foreign policy
making and implementation in Nigeria, 1960 to 1990.
Tutorial Questions
1. Define foreign policy severally, stating the relevance of interest in the analysis of foreign
policy?
2. Whose interest – national, group, institutional, personal or class in the analysis of foreign
policy?
3. Examine the foreign policy making process of any country you have studied.
4. Examine the connectedness between foreign policy and national interest.
5. Discuss the instruments of foreign policy.
6. With reference to one or two countries, examine the roles institutions and structures play
in the making of foreign policy
7. The mass media in shaping and reflecting public opinion influence decision making in
foreign policy. To what extent would you agree?
8. Examine the political and economic instruments in the foreign policy implementation
process.
9. The psychological and military instruments in foreign policy implementation are complex
and are therefore to be carefully applied. Discuss.
10. Extensively discuss Nigeria’s foreign policy during the period between 1960 and 1970.
11. To what extent can internal developments such as the civil war, June 12, Ogoni Nine, and
Boko Haram can be said to have had impact on Nigeria’s foreign policy.
12. Discuss the foreign policy of any of these following: the USA, China, Russia, Japan, and
the United Kingdom.
13-15. Examine meaningfully two (2) of the listed case studies below:
i. The 1962 Cuban Missile crisis
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ii. The 1967 six day war between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria
iii. The July 1979 nationalization of British Petroleum assets in Nigeria by General
Obasanjo’s government
iv. The 1979 Iranian revolution and challenges in foreign policy
v. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States in the New York and
Washington D.C
vi. International responses to the Arab Spring of 2010/2011