Huvudgrupp 1

Delkurs 1. Amerikansk inrikes- och utrikespolitik (7,5 hp)

• Buzan, Barry, The United States and the great powers: world politics in the twenty-first century., Cambridge, Polity, 2004Obligatorisk*
• Kupchan, Charles A., The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century, Vintage, 2003Obligatorisk*
• Micklethwait, John; Wooldridge, Adrian, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America, Penguin, 2005Obligatorisk*
• Patterson, Thomas E., The vanishing voter: public involvement in an age of uncertainty, New York, Vintage Books, cop. 2003Obligatorisk*

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Delkurs 2. USA - det medialiserade landet (7,5 hp)

• Croteau, David; Hoynes, William, The business of media: corporate media and the public interest, 2. ed., Thousand Oaks, CA, Pine Forge Press, 2006Obligatorisk*
• Papacharissi, Zizi, A private sphere: democracy in a digital age, Cambridge, Polity, 2010Obligatorisk*
• Russell, Adrienne., Networked: a contemporary history of news in transition, Cambridge, Polity, 2011Obligatorisk*

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Delkurs 3. USA och globaliseringen (7,5 hp)

• Global woman: nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy, 1. ed., New York, Metropolitan Books, 2003Obligatorisk*
• Steger, Manfred B., Globalization: a very short introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003Obligatorisk*
• Stiglitz, Joseph E, Making globalization work, 1st ed., New York, W.W. Norton, 2006Obligatorisk*
• Kohut, Andrew; Stokes, Bruce, America against the world: how we are different and why we are disliked, 1st ed., New York, Henry Holt and Co., 2007Obligatorisk*

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Delkurs 4. Invandring och etnicitet i amerikansk historia (7,5 hp)

• Øverland, Orm, Immigrant minds, American identities: making the United States home, 1870-1930, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2000Obligatorisk*
• Alba, Richard D.; Nee, Victor, Remaking the American mainstream: assimilation and contemporary immigration, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2003Obligatorisk*
• Gjerde, Jon, The minds of the West: ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917, Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1997Obligatorisk*
• Daniels, Roger, Coming to America: a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life, 2. ed., New York, HarperPerennial, 2002Obligatorisk*

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* Obligatorisk