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Intelligence and Policy

This course examines the elements and purpose of intelligence, requirements of successful intelligence analysis, intelligence processes, counterintelligence and security, the relationship between intelligence and policy, and how American political and cultural values affect the role of intelligence in America.

This course addresses several major intelligence issues:

  1. The intelligence process and methodology, including the structure of the intelligence system.
  2. The necessity of coherent intelligence policy.
  3. The limits and utility of intelligence.
  4. The importance of political intelligence, particularly concerning foreign methods of statecraft.
  5. The role of counterintelligence and the importance of counterintelligence analysis to the making of foreign policy.
  6. The problems of intelligence epistemology, including deception, propaganda, perceptions management, and internal cultural and perceptual predispositions and biases.

Admission into this course requires permission of professor

Semester Available


Fall Semester
Spring Semester

Part of


  Introductory Courses (Required) (Required)
  Specialization in Intelligence (Required)
  Introductory Courses (Required)
  Choose Two of the Following Courses
  Electives (select one)

Special Note


This course is a prerequisite for other intelligence courses.

Principal Professor


   Kenneth deGraffenreid
Former Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive  {read more}

Foundations of Political and Economic Freedom

This course examines the political and economic principles that result ultimately in an open, liberal democracy and their applicability to non-democratic cultures. The course systematically examines the principles underlying liberal democracy as developed in the West beginning with the concepts of human nature and human freedom.

Principal Professor

  Alberto M. Piedra

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