Certificate in Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare

The purpose of this certificate is to provide specialized study of two unconventional and often misunderstood tools of statecraft – public diplomacy and political warfare – and to provide a starting point for the practitioner to integrate them with each other and with other instruments of policy. This program is the only one of its kind in the United States.

Required Courses

• Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions and Policy 
• Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare 

Area-study course (One required)

• Chinese Grand Strategy 
• The Contemporary Balkans 
• Islam and Geopolitics in Eurasia 
• Russian Politics and Foreign Policy 
• U.S.-African Relations 
• U.S.-Latin American Relations  

Elective Courses (Choose two)

• Ideas and Values in International Politics  
• Mass Media and World Politics 
• Political Warfare: Past, Present and Future 
• Problems of Promoting Regime Change and Democracy 
• Directed Study in Public Diplomacy or in Political Warfare