Subject: Invitation - Yale Alumni College Fall Courses
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:58:52 -0400 (EDT)

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Yale Alumni College Fall Courses=/p>
Three Courses in Oc=ober and November 2017
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Classics of Historical Thought and Lit=rature            =nbsp;

Registration Info

James M. Banner, Jr. '57

Tuesdays, October 3- November 7,  6:30 - 8:00 pm<=strong>

Location: Kramerbooks and Afterwords Cafe, =span style="text-decoration: underline;">15=7 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
**This location is not Handicapped accessible=/p>

Course Description:
We often forget two aspects of historical thought and=literature: 1. That it has its own history extending back to no later than=the works of Homer; and 2. That history can be read as literature as well =s knowledge about the past. This course will approach these two aspects of=written history through some classic works of historical literature- such =s those of Herodotus, Thucydides, Eusebius, Lorenzo Valla, Nicolo Machiave=li, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Carlyle, and Leopold von Ranke -while exploring =he context of each of their works and, at the end of the course, making a =uick run through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  The course =eeks to make clear that history has a history of its own, that historical =hought and knowledge are never stable.  The course also seeks to intr=duce you to the pleasures of immersing yourself in ways of treating the pa=t that are different from those encountered today in most works of history=

Course materia=:

John Burrow, = History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and=Thucydides to the Twentieth Century, available in a Vintage =aperback.

Syll=bus:

Week 1- Oct. 3:=Introduction: Herodotus, Thucydides.  Burrow: Prologue, Chaps. 1, 2

Week 2- Oct. 10: Chris=ian historiography: Eusebius et al.  Burrow: Chaps. 12-15

Week 3- Oct. 17: The Renaissance= Valla, Machiavelli, Guicciardini.  Burrow: Chaps. 16, 18

Week 4- Oct. 24: The Enlightenme=t: Gibbon. et al Burrow: Chap. 21

=strong>Week 5- Oct. 31: Revolutions and Romantics: Macaule=, Carlyle, Michelet.  Burrow: Chap. 22

=strong>Week 6- Nov. 7: Modernity: Burckhardt, Ranke. =Burrow: Chaps. 23, 25

Registration Info<=strong>

James M.Banner '57

James M. Banner, Jr., holds a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. f=om Columbia, where he studied with Richard Hofstadter.  He was a memb=r of the history department of Princeton University from 1966 to 1980, whi=h he left to found the American Association for the Advancement of the Hum=nities.  A former Guggenheim Fellow, fellow of the Charles Warren Cen=er for Studies in American History at Harvard, member of the board of dire=tors of the American Council of Learned Societies, and Fulbright Visiting =rofessor of American History at Charles University, Prague, he is the auth=r of many books and articles in American history, education, and public af=airs.   They include To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists=and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815; with James =. McPherson et al., Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays; with Harold=C. Cannon,  The Elements of Teaching and The Elements of Learning; an=, most recently, Being a Historian: An Introduction to the Professional Wo=ld of History.  He is currently writing a book about revisionist hist=ry tentatively entitled "Battles Over the Past: Revisionist History-What I= Is, Why We Have It" and hoping for a production of a play, "Good and Fait=ful Servants," drawn from the correspondence between John and Abigail Adam= and Thomas Jefferson.  Banner was a co-founder of the History News S=rvice and the moving spirit behind the National History Center.

America and the Collapse of World Order:  Reflections on Past an= Present

Robert Kagan '80           &nbs=;                     &n=sp;                     =nbsp;
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Registration Info

Wednesdays, October 4- November&nbs=;8,  5:30 - 7:30 pm

Location: Kramerbooks and Afterwords Cafe= 1517 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036

**This location is not Handicapped access=ble

Course Description: =/strong>

What is America's proper relationship with=the rest of the world?  Twice in the past century, in 1919 and 1945, =mericans have faced that question and answered in very different ways. &nb=p;They are now facing that question again.  How will Americans answer=  How should they answer?  This course will explore ways of look=ng at this most fundamental of issues.  It will examine the nature of=the international system and the place of the United States within that sy=tem.  What are American interests in the world and what, if any, are =merica's responsibilities, to itself and to the international system? &nbs=;How high a price should Americans pay to uphold an international order? &=bsp;The course will compare the past with the present and look at both con=inuities and discontinuities in thinking about American foreign policy ove= the past hundred years as a way of understanding and situating the presen= debate in a historical context.

Required Texts:

Robert Kagan, The World America Made, 2012
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Syllabus:

Week 1- Oct 4: America an= the World -- 1900-1918

Week =- Oct 11: 1920-1940

Week 3- Oct 18: The World America Made 1945-1989<=span>

Week 4- Oct 25: The End=of History/ The Indispensable Nation

Week 5- Nov 1: Disillus=on and the Post-American World

America at the=Crossroads

Registration Info

Professor Robert Kagan '80<=span>

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow in the Project on=International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy Program at the Broo=ings Institution. His most recent book is The New York Times bestseller, T=e World America Made (Random House, 2012).

Kagan also serves as a member of the secretary of state's foreign aff=irs policy board. He writes a monthly column on world affairs for The Wash=ngton Post.

Among his many additional=works, Kagan's books include: The Return of History and the End of Dreams =Knopf 2008), Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earli=st Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century (Knopf, 2006), and Of Paradise and=Power (Knopf, 2003). His most recent writing include: "The Twilight of the=Liberal World Order" in Brookings Big Ideas for America (Brookings Institu=ion Press, 2017) and "Backing into World War III" in Foreign Policy.

In 2016, Politico Magazine named him as one=of "Politico's 50," the collection of leading "thinkers, doers, and vision=ries transforming American politics." He served in the State Department fr=m 1984 to 1988 as a member of the policy planning staff, as principal spee=hwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and as deputy for policy =n the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs.

Kagan is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University's Kenned= School of Government and holds a doctorate in American history from Ameri=an University.

A Global Tour of Economics, Politics, Cultur= and International Relations (Part 1)   <=trong>

Paul Sullivan, '=6 PhD, Professor of Economics at the National Defense University, Adjunct =rofessor of Security Studies at Georgetown University      =                    &nbs=;

Registration Info<=a>

Sa=urdays, October 7- November 11,  10:00 - 12:00 pm

Location: Kramerbooks and Afterwords Cafe, 1517 Co=necticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036

**This location is not Handicapped accessible

Course Description:

This course will provide a practical intellectual tour of various coun=ries in the world through the lenses of their economies, politics, culture= and international relations.  We also will look at the similarities,=differences and connections across these countries and their regions to be=ter understand the global environment via understanding national and regio=al environments. There will also be discussions about US, Chinese, Russian= Indian, EU and others' relations with these various countries along the w=y.

All readings will be provided in e=ch session's scope sheets and will be internet links to practical, readabl= and hopefully very interesting articles related to the country of focus o= that day.

Syll=bus:

Week 1- Oct 7: =he economics, politics, cultures and international relations of Saudi Arab=a

<=pan style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Week 2- Oct 14:&nb=p; The economics, politics, cultures and international relations of Egypt<=span>

Week 3- Oct 21: =The economics, politics, cultures and international relations of Iran =

Week 4- Oct 28:&nbs=; The economics, politics, cultures and international relations of Japan

Week 5- Nov 4:  T=e economics, politics, cultures and international relations of Mongolia&nb=p;

=span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Week 6- Nov 11:&n=sp; The economics, politics, cultures and international relations of North=Korea

Registration Info

Dr. Paul S=llivan, '81 M.A., '82 M.Phil, '86 Ph.D
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Dr. Paul Sullivan has been a professor of economics at the National=Defense University (NDU) since July 1999. He has been a primary faculty ad=iser to U.S. officers at the colonel and equivalent ranks, and flag office=s from the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, E=rope and East Asia while at NDU. He has been part of the leadership and fa=ulty of the NDU Energy Industry Study for 15 years. Dr. Sullivan has run f=eld studies on the energy, environment and agribusiness industries in Tanz=nia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France, Gree=e, Turkey, the UAE, Qatar, Australia, Japan, Mongolia, China, and many oth=r places as part of his duties at NDU. Dr. Sullivan is an Adjunct Professo= of Security Studies at Georgetown University, where he has taught classes=on global energy and international security (which include analyses of ene=gy issues for the EU, Russia, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Sahara= Africa, India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States= Canada, and the Arctic) for over 13 years. He is a Senior International F=llow at the National Council of U.S. Arab Relations and an Adjunct Senior =ellow for Future Global Resource Threats at the Federation of American Sci=ntists. He is an internationally recognized expert on the economics, polit=cs, and energy, water and security in the MENA region and parts of Asia. H= has a Ph.D. (highest honors) from Yale, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Br=ndeis, and was in the 2006 class of Seminar XXI at MIT. His experiences an= knowledge from very recent professional and personal travels to the Middl= East, Japan and Mongolia will also contribute to the class.=/p>

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