Pols 321

Reading Assignments

Lecture Outlines

Related Links

 

Below are listed a number of links to various websites that you may find useful.

 

General Use Websites for U.S. Foreign Policy

 

The journal Foreign Affairs - Abstracts of recent articles and considerable documentation about recent U.S. foreign policy issues http://www.foreignaffairs.org/envoy/documents/

 

The U.S. Department of State - All kinds of excellent materials - http://www.state.gov/index.html

 

To go directly to the Foreign Relations of the United States series go to http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/index.html#foreign

 

The National Security Archive -- A huge number of documents about a wide range of important U.S foreign policy Issues

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/

The National Security Archinve also presents an educational component site including the full text of interviews and primary source documents for the landmark CNN series Cold War. This site has interviews with many actual foreign policymakers during the Cold War era and has many documents dealing with this period. The site has episodes that start with the interwar years and run through Vietnam and the episode on Mutually Assured Destruction and the Nuclear Arms race with the Soviet Union

Interviews are located at http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/coldwar/interviews/

Documents are locate at http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/coldwar/documents/

Websites for Specific U.S. Foreign Policy Issues

 

For the full text of NSC-68 see - http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/departments/history/us1945/docs/nsc68.htm

 

For Documentary background for The Cuban Missile Crisis see the following two volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series

Foreign Relations of the United State 1961-1963 Volume X Cuba, 1961-62

http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusX/index.html

Foreign Relations of The United States 1961-1963 Volume XI Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath

http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusXI/index.html

 

The National Security Archive material on the Cuban Missile Crisis

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/cuba_mis_cri.html

For a website that has some basic facts, pictures, and a few short audio clips on the Cuban Missiles Crisis go to

http://library.advanced.org/11046/index.html