U.S. National Security Strategy and Emerging Threats

IWP 616
Four credits

This course will examine the many threats-current and emerging-to the security of the United States; the strategic planning efforts undertaken to address them; our abilities to manage crises when they emerge; and, the challenges of statecraft in shaping crises to our advantage. Students will become familiar with primary source materials on U.S. national security strategy; intelligence community threat assessments; policies responding to crises; and, critical after-action assessments of how well (or poorly) our government managed the crisis. Particular attention will be given to understanding how crises can create opportunities for prudent statecraft to advance U.S. national security interests.

Semester Available

Spring Semester

Special Note

This course is being taught by Prof. S. John Tsagronis

Principal Professor

To be Announced

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FEATURED FACULTY

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Professor of History, The Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies

Western Moral Tradition and World Politics

The course will stress the role of ethics and natural law within the context of statecraft. It will examine the use of moral reasoning and prudence in helping to achieve the twin goals of an ethical foreign policy and the protection of the national interest. Both of these goals will be reviewed in the light of Western moral tradition; a tradition that, through the years, has historically guided the various aspects of statecraft.

Principal Professor

Alberto M. Piedra

Joseph R. Wood