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This course will examine the different ways scholarly history is practiced, with a focus on the history of foreign policy and international relations. It will also consider whether a familiarity with historical analysis and methods can improve our understanding of world politics, strategy, and statecraft. Students will be evaluated on the basis of classroom participation and a seminar paper based either upon original research, using primary sources, or a historiographical paper engaging an important and contested issue in the history of international relations (such as the July Crisis, the origins of the Cold War, Vietnam, etc). <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>