Online Courses

"An appreciation of how national security policies are developed, and, more importantly, implemented, is surprisingly overlooked in most schools that teach a course like this."
-S. John Tsagronis

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 covers the role of ideas in international politics and the practical application of ideas to the conduct of foreign policy.

This course examines the founding principles of American political philosophy and how they define the national purposes that form the basis of U.S. foreign policy.

This course examines the role of counterintelligence as an essential element of U.S. national security strategy and the importance of counterintelligence in international relations.

This course will stress the role of ethics and natural law within the context of statecraft.

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.

This course examines the most significant developments in recent world history.

This course introduces the field of international relations in a way that blends issues of theory and practice. It is designed to give students an understanding of those questions of international relations theory that have a direct bearing on the ability of policy practitioners to

This course examines the theory and practice of strategy, the use of force and other instruments of power to achieve the goals of the state in the international system. We first look at the theorists of strategy and war, e.g. Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Jomini, Mahan,

The goal of this course is to prepare the student to recognize and analyze the use of foreign disinformation and propaganda to affect U.S. perceptions and policy formation, and to employ countermeasures against them.

This eight-week seminar (two credits) demonstrates the importance of geography to international politics, economics, national security, and strategy. It introduces students to the geographic and geopolitical factors that have shaped the field of world politics.