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Class notes on power, the emergence of the modern state system, nationalism as a force, propaganda and education in formation of public opinion, incrementalism, power as a relational concept, imperialism in U.S. policy, geopolitics, Utopianism, war.

Class notes on the historical development of international law, treaties, neutrality, League of Nations, United Nations, International Labour Organization, UN Security Council, UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Also notes on the Soviet Union and nuclear weapons/disarmament.

Notes on the Russian Revolution, socialism, the relationship between individual and society, meaning of freedom in the West and Soviet society, ideals of social justice, Soviet economy, materialism, capitalism, Marxism, communism, Khrushchev and a "cult of personality," agitation, control, propaganda, the Soviet administrative organization, instruments of coercion, social ideals.

Class notes on morality and national interest, Monroe Doctrine, Spanish-American War, public's role in decision making, branches of U.S. government, World War II foreign policy, American strategic doctrine. Some notes written in Vietnamese.

Notes on Edward S. Mason, Economic planning in Underdeveloped Countries; George Barr Carson, Jr., The State and Economic Development; Edwin P. Reubens, Opportunities, governments, and economic development in Manchuria, 1860-1940; Norman J.G. Pounds, Economic Growth in Germany; and others.

Notes on T.R. Fox, The Reconciliation of the Desirable and the Possible; Hans J. Morgenthau, In Defense of the National Interest; Gabriel A. Almond, The American People and Foreign Policy; Pendleton Herring, Presidential leadership: the political relations of Congress and the chief executive; William Yandell Elliott, United States Foreign Policy; and others. Inserted: Government g242, Determinants of American Foreign Policy, outline; English reading quiz; Government 18, Spring 1961 books recommended for purchase.

Class notes on theory of state and government, theory of international law, U.S. as a world power, law of treaties, territorial integrity, collective security, imperialism.

Class notes on moral law and power in international relations, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democratic theories, women's rights, socialism, the U.S. Civil War, slavery, Russia and the Soviet Union, communism. References to Karl Popper on the role of philosophy and Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations. Inserted: a two-page draft essay, "116th Street and Broadway."

Class notes on geographic approach to civil war, reconstruction, liberalism, money policy, election organizations, T. Roosevelt's domestic policies, varieties of progressivism, Wilsonian experiments in foreign policy, World War I, Woodrow Wilson, the Great Depression, the New Deal.

Class notes on religious, commercial, political, agrarian, industrial, and social revolutions; Puritanism; demography; revolution as class conflict; slavery; the "Classical Period" of U.S. foreign relations; expansionism; colonialism; civil war; Jacksonian democracy.