U.S. Foreign relations in the 20th century. Theodore Roosvelt, Woodrrow Wilson and the contrasting approaches to internationalism. World war I, the postwar order, and U.S. interventionism in Latin America. World War II and the origins of the Cold War. The Vietnam War and U.S. society. Domestic politics and the making of U.S. foreign policy. The United States and Middle Eastern wars. U.S. FOreign policy in the post-Cold War World