Class Notes -- Grand Strategy and Restraint

Here are the notes for today's class.

PSC413 Final Exam Questions

Here are possible questions for the final exam Friday, August 8th.

Class Notes -- Terrorism

Here are the notes for today's class.

Summary Statistics for Exam 2

The results are in for the second exam. Here is an answer key for the exam, and here are some brief summary statistics:

Total Number of Exams: 24
Mean score: 76.25 (after the curve)
Range: 53 to 104 (the full description is below)

CURVE: There is a 6 point curve for this test.

UPDATED data below...

var1 | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
53 | 1 4.17 4.17
58 | 2 8.33 12.50
62 | 2 8.33 20.83
65 | 1 4.17 25.00
69 | 1 4.17 29.17
70 | 1 4.17 33.33
71 | 1 4.17 37.50
73 | 1 4.17 41.67
77 | 1 4.17 45.83
78 | 2 8.33 54.17
79 | 1 4.17 58.33
80 | 2 8.33 66.67
81 | 1 4.17 70.83
83 | 1 4.17 75.00
84 | 1 4.17 79.17
88 | 1 4.17 83.33
89 | 1 4.17 87.50
91 | 1 4.17 91.67
97 | 1 4.17 95.83
104 | 1 4.17 100.00

Class Notes -- Air Power and also Refuge Crises

Here are the notes for today's class: part I and part II.

Class Notes - Polarity II

Here are the notes for today's class.

Class Notes - Polarity

Here are the notes for today's class.

Notes on MAD

Here are the notes for today's class.

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)

Here are the notes for today's class.

Class Notes -- Khong and the Vietnam War

Here are the notes for today's class.

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

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

Here are the notes for today's class.

Liberal Understanding of the Start of the Cold War

Here are the notes on Gaddis' argument.

Realist Understanding of Start of Cold War

Here are the notes from today's class.

Worldviews in American Foreign Policy

Here are the notes for today's class.

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.