The Barnes County Historical Society Lecture Series Presents: Anthony Dutton (VCSU) and Luis da Vinha (Flinders University) “Three Approaches to Presidential Foreign Policy Making in the Twenty First Century; The Executive, the Magistrate, and the Maverick”

7PM Thursday May 26 at the Barnes County Museum (315 Central Ave N, Valley City)

Political scientists have long determined that a president’s relationships with his advisors are crucial in determining an administration’s policies. Over the last several decades, scholars of the presidency have paid particular attention to the advisory structures and processes involved in foreign policy decision-making. Their work has contributed to the development and refinement of three presidential management models to help frame the analysis of foreign policymaking: (1) formalistic model, (2) collegial model, and (3) competitive model. This book analyzes the management models employed by presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump throughout their presidencies by employing a structured-focus comparison method that is framed on a set of general and standardized questions used to analyze a series of case studies involving their Middle East policies. The book offers the first systematic comparative analysis of presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump’s management of foreign policy crises.

Anthony Dutton is a Professor of History at Valley City State University, in North Dakota, USA. He chairs the Social Science Department and teaches courses in U.S. social and political history as well as North American history and relations. A former VCSU Faculty Association president and appointee to North Dakota University System taskforces for strategic planning and for faculty
benefits, Dutton was the 2014 recipient of VCSU’s Teacher of the Year. Anthony co-authored Three Approaches to Presidential Policymaking in the Twenty-First Century with Luis da Vinha

Luis da Vinha is a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Master in International Relations at Flinders University. His research has been published with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Comparative Strategy, Journal of Policy History, European Journal of Geography, Portuguese Journal of Political Science, and the Brown Journal of World Affairs, among others. Luis is also the author of Geographic Mental Maps and Foreign Policy Change and
Three Approaches to Presidential Foreign Policymaking in the Twenty-First Century (co-authored with Anthony Dutton).

The public is cordially invited

All Lectures are at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum and held in conjunction with Valley City State University. They are free and open to the public.

For more information contact Wes Anderson at 701-845-0966

Barnes County Historical Society
315 Central Ave N
Valley City, ND 58072