Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare

IWP 637
Four credits

This course examines the history, theories, and methodologies of public diplomacy and political warfare through the 20th Century, and especially during the Cold War, with an eye toward applying lessons to the development of 21st Century public diplomacy and political warfare strategies. The course emphasizes psychological strategy, in which US policies should be calculated to achieve a desired psychological effect. The objective of the course is to help prepare the student to integrate public diplomacy and political warfare with other tools - traditional diplomacy, foreign aid, intelligence collection and covert operations, and military and economic foreign policy - and to condition the student to approach the issue with confidence.

Further course details, including the list of assigned books, are contained in the course website: publicdiplomacyonline.com.

Semester Available

Spring Semester

Pre-requisites

Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions and Policy

Related Courses

The Art of Diplomacy

Counterintelligence in a Democratic Society

Ideas and Values in International Politics

Intelligence and Policy

Mass Media and World Politics

Information Operations and Information Warfare

Political Warfare: Past, Present and Future

Special Note

Registration for this course requires the approval of the professor.

Principal Professor

J. Michael Waller

Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication, IWP {read more}

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FEATURED FACULTY

Raymond J. Batvinis

Former Supervisory Special Agent, FBI

Military Strategy: An Overview of the Theorists of Warfare

This course introduces the classic statements of, and commentaries on, Western military strategic thought which have dominated most warfare since the Renaissance. The course will examine how various military concepts are integrated into national-level security strategy ("grand strategy") and the role they have played in history, statecraft, and war. The course culminates in a seminar with strategy division chiefs from the Department of Defense.

Principal Professor

Walter Jajko