Need suggestions for midterm paper topic, re: Vietnam War

[LuiECuomo]

Hi, everyone,

I'm getting started on my midterm paper for my two Political Science courses. I recently realized that I could do my papers on essentially the same topic (having gotten approval from both professors) and I chose the Vietnam War, specifically, the impact/influence of the anti-war movement during the 1960's-1970's. However, I can't use the EXACT same paper for both topics.

Class one is "Policy of International Relations."
Class two is "American Foreign Policy."

Essentially, I need to write similar but different papers on the same subject, however one should be more U.S. foreign policy related and the other should be more internationally-themed, if that makes any sense.

Any ideas what my theses should be?

 

[C. Lee]

How policies change over time.

How foreign policy can be changed by popular protest.

 

[LuiECuomo]

That's the right direction to take, but this needs to be confined specifically to the Vietnam War.

I was thinking perhaps for the class one paper, it could focus specifically on how domestic protests effected U.S. foreign policy, while class two's paper could address how international protests and sentiment about the war effected U.S. foreign policy.

Any better ideas are greatly welcome.

 

[BatMatt]

Well the Vietnam was certainly makes for a very interesting midterm paper. You can hit it from many angles, how Kennedy started, how it lead to the breakdown of LBJ, but I think it was most interesting under Nixon. If you want to do something on foreign policy, the way Nixon and Kissinger approached the Vietnam conflict was rather unique and bold.

 

[LuiECuomo]

Well the Vietnam was certainly makes for a very interesting midterm paper. You can hit it from many angles, how Kennedy started, how it lead to the breakdown of LBJ, but I think it was most interesting under Nixon. If you want to do something on foreign policy, the way Nixon and Kissinger approached the Vietnam conflict was rather unique and bold.

I already mentioned in my initial post that I'm focusing specifically on the anti-war movement's impact on the Vietnam War. What I'm struggling with is how to do it from a more or less strictly American foreign policy standpoint and from a more international viewpoint.