Professor John Moser examines U.S. foreign policy and involvement during the 1920s, considering whether the claim that the country retreated into isolationism during this period is accurate or not.

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Professor Jeremi Suri looks at the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt and its balancing of both American republicanism and the classical European balance of power as the U.S. rose to become a world power.

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Professor Jeremi Suri considers the rise of nationalism in the early United States of the Founding Fathers. He examines where this nationalism may have originated from and how it influenced the country's foreign relations.

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Professor John Moser discusses U.S. foreign policy in the 1890s, when the U.S. acquired territories including the Philippines and Guam. He considers how anti-imperialists believed such territorial acquisitions would threaten the ideals of republicanism.

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Professor Jeremi Suri looks at the effect of American westward expansion on mid-19th-century foreign policy. He looks at the role of republican ideals in policy at this time.

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Professor John Moser examines the first period of partisan division in the U.S., between Jeffersonian Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists from the 1790s through 1812. He looks at how this period of intense party opposition influenced foreign policy.

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Professor Jeremi Suri looks at the foreign policy of the early United States, including under George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Suri defines and explores republicanism during this time period.

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Professors John Moser and Jeremi Suri overview several schools of foreign policy: republicanism, nationalism, balance of power, and Wilsonianism. They also review what is meant by foreign policy in general.

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Professor Ken Masugi looks at the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case Korematsu v. U.S., in which the Supreme Court ruled that the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was constitutional—a ruling that still stands today. Masugi compares and contrasts the context and substance of this ruling with the current political and judicial stance on terrorists, looking at the U.S. Patriot Act and arguments over whether or not this document is constitutional.

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