Class Notes - Polarity II

Here are the notes for today's class.

Class Notes - Polarity

Here are the notes for today's class.

Class Notes -- Chapter 13 (Trade)

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Notes on MAD

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Cuban Missile Crisis Notes

We're covering decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis today in class, so I thought it might be interesting to take a look at JFK's speech that introduced the quarantine. Here is a video clip of the speech, and here is the text.

Here is the first set of notes on Graham Allison. The second set of notes will be delivered in class (sorry, no electronic copy).

Class Notes -- Khong and the Vietnam War (Part II)

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Class Notes -- Chapter 9 (Preferences)

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Class Notes -- Khong and the Vietnam War

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Class Notes -- Chapter 8 (Limits to Power)

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Summary Statistics for Exam 1

The results are in for the first exam, and here are some brief summary statistics:

Total Number of Exams: 24
Mean score: 77.1 (after the curve)
Range: 36 to 96 (the full description is below)

CURVE: There is a 12 point curve for this test. Note that there will NOT be a curve on the next test.

Score # %age Rank

36 | 1 4.17 4.17
56 | 1 4.17 8.33
58 | 1 4.17 12.50
66 | 1 4.17 16.67
68 | 1 4.17 20.83
70 | 2 8.33 29.17
74 | 1 4.17 33.33
76 | 1 4.17 37.50
77 | 2 8.33 45.83
78 | 2 8.33 54.17
82 | 1 4.17 58.33
84 | 2 8.33 66.67
85 | 1 4.17 70.83
86 | 2 8.33 79.17
88 | 1 4.17 83.33
90 | 1 4.17 87.50
92 | 1 4.17 91.67
94 | 1 4.17 95.83
96 | 1 4.17 100.00

Summary Statistics for Exam 1

The results are in for the first exam, and here are some brief summary statistics:

Total Number of Exams: 11
Mean score: 75.9 (after the curve)
Range: 52.5 to 91.7 (the full description is below)

CURVE: There is a 15 point curve for this test. Note that there will NOT be a curve on the next test.

NOTE: The correlation between attendance and score on this exam was VERY strong-- 0.73.

Score # %age Rank
52.5 | 1 9.09 9.09
57.5 | 1 9.09 18.18
63.3 | 1 9.09 27.27
66.7 | 1 9.09 36.36
72.5 | 1 9.09 45.45
80 | 1 9.09 54.55
85 | 1 9.09 63.64
86.7 | 1 9.09 72.73
87.5 | 1 9.09 81.82
91.7 | 2 18.18 100.00

Class Notes -- Chapter 7 (What is Power?)

Here are today's class notes on power.

Class Notes -- Chapter 6 (Domestic Politics)

Here are the notes for today's class on domestic politics and the strategic perspective.

Testing Realist v. Liberal on the Start of the Cold War

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Class Notes -- Chapter 5 (Bureaucratic Politics and Decisionmaking)

Here are the notes for today's class on bureaucratic politics.

Liberal Understanding of the Start of the Cold War

Here are the notes on Gaddis' argument.

Class Notes -- Chapter 4 (Structural Theories)

Here are the notes for today's class.

Realist Understanding of Start of Cold War

Here are the notes from today's class.

Class Notes -- Chapter 3 (Strategic Interactions)

Here are the notes for today's class.

Worldviews in American Foreign Policy

Here are the notes for today's class.

Evaluating Theories

Here are the notes for today's class on Evaluating Theories (Chapter 2).

Reading for Tomorrow

Here is the Michalak reading for tomorrow's PSC413 American Foreign Policy class.

Syllabus for PSC413 American Foreign Policy

Here is the syllabus for PSC413 American Foreign Policy, Summer II 2008.

Syllabus for PSC204 International Relations

Here is the syllabus for PSC204 International Relations for the Summer II term.