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This course is designed to provide the overlooked historical context behind some of today’s major foreign policy crises. People in other countries acutely remember past encounters with American power that most people in the United States are unaware of or consider irrelevant. This can lead to wide gaps in understanding that undermine current diplomacy with countries imputing motives to Washington that would surprise many in the United States. This course aims to narrow that gap by looking at past American interactions with five selected countries – Cuba, Japan, Greece, Iran and Pakistan. The emphasis will be on interactions since World War II, but we will briefly touch on early interactions as appropriate.