LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL STUDIES

Political Studies 3617: Foreign Policy Decision-Making  
                            
Dr. Laure Paquette							
Office: RB2020, telephone: 343‑8237 				             
e‑mail: laure.paquette@lakeheadu.ca					       
Office Hours			

Textbook:			Laure Paquette, Path to Peace, on reserve
				Additional materials on Web CT

Assignments and Grading	Assigned Worksheets.................................50%
				Guided Analysis of Case…………………20%
Integration Reports.....................................30%

Course Objective		to familiarize students with the decision making processes in various countries; develop the capacity for the analysis of those decisions; develop the skills necessary for intervention in those processes or institutions

Course Contents		theoretical introduction, demonstration of analysis on cases chosen by professor, analysis of case studies of foreign policy decisions at the stand-alone, bilateral, multilateral levels involving states and groups of states.  Case studies are selected in collaboration with the students.