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POLI 2549

United States Foreign Policy 1945 to Present · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

89BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

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What the challenge rank is made of

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This course examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of U.S. foreign policy since 1945. What were the underlying patterns and logics guiding U.S. leaders? How did changes in the structure of the international system influence U.S. foreign policy? What caused America's foreign interventions and wars? Topics covered include: the origins of the Cold War; the strategies of containment, engagement, and rollback; U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere; the evolution of U.S. nuclear doctrine; detente; U.S. interventions in Korea, Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of American unipolarity; as well as current foreign policy issues relating to the Middle East, Russia, and China.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Lindsey O'rourkeAssociate Professor · Political Science	914 records	—	—	964 ratings · all classes

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Also taught by Lindsey O'rourke

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
POLI 2548The World Wars: Causes, Conduct, and Unintended Consequences	14 records	86
POLI 2550Nuclear Weapons and International Relations	14 records	87
POLI 4595Current Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy	13 records	95
POLI 2500International Politics and Morality	11 record	65

Other POLI classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
POLI 1021How to Rule the World: Introduction to Political Theory	645 records	82
POLI 1041Fundamental Concepts of Politics	1037 records	76
POLI 2360Seminar: Rights in Conflict	923 records	84
POLI 1042Introduction to Modern Politics	519 records	83
POLI 2665The Question of Justice	919 records	80
POLI 2440A Continent on the Move: Immigration in Contemporary Europe	110 records	86

The line

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Nothing reported

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Game log

4 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Lindsey O'rourke	Fall 2025	01	90	88	—
Lindsey O'rourke	Fall 2024	01	88	92	—
Lindsey O'rourke	Fall 2023	01	91	92	—
Lindsey O'rourke	Fall 2021	01	95	85	—

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.