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FALL 2019 REQUIRED TEXTS

September 3-December 14, 2019

Course Schedule

Please note: Some classes will have additional required and recommended readings (articles, essays, etc.) that are not listed below. These will be listed in your course syllabi.

601 National Security Policy Process (Tsagronis)

• American National Security
• The Constitution and National Security
• Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council
• Fear: Trump in the White House
• Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
• National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth
• National Security Law
• Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law
• Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
• Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

605 Intelligence and Policy (Thomas) – Both Sections

• The Billon Dollar Spy
• The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
• The Constitution of the United States (any version)
• The Declaration of Independence (any version)
• Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
• The Great War of Our Time
• Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies
• Known and Unknown
• Necessary Secrets
• Playing the Edge
• The President’s Book of Secrets
• Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program (available on www.cia.gov website)
• Secret Sentry
• Sharpening Strategic Intelligence
• Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History

607 U.S. Nonproliferation and Nuclear Policy (Sokolski)

• Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation
• Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
• Additional on-line readings will be assigned

608 American Founding Principles and Foreign Policy (Wood)

• Constitutional Conservatism
• Dangerous Nation
• Democracy in America
• The Federalist Papers
• An Intellectual History of Liberalism
• Promised Land, Crusader State
• The Bible (as assigned) – any version
• The Roots of American Order
• The Second Treatise of Government
• Why Liberalism Failed

613 History of International Relations (Tierney)

• A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
• A World Restored
• Europe’s Classical Balance of Power
• Europe Under the Old Regime
• Politics and Culture in International History
• Other readings will be distributed in class

615 Western Moral Tradition and World Politics (Wood)

• After Virtue
• The Agricola and Germania
• Aristotle’s Politics
• The Bible (any version)
• Gorgias
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• The Modern Age
• Morality and Contemporary Warfare
• Nicomachean Ethics
• On Free Choice of the Will
• Utilitarianism

616 U.S. National Security Strategy and Emerging Threats (Tsagronis)

• AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
• Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
• The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
• The Red Web:  The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and The New Online Revolutionaries
• Seven Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21^st Century
• Six Nightmares: Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How America Can Meet Them
• Strategic Warning Intelligence:  History, Challenges, and Prospects
• Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes

620 Contemporary Global Politics and Diplomacy (Chodakiewicz)

• Diplomacy
• The Fifty-Year Wound
• Modern Times
• The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire

627 International Relations, Statecraft and Integrated Strategy (Lenczowski/Fontaine) – Both sections

• Contending Theories of International Relations
• On Justice, Power, and Human Nature
• The Modern Prince
• The Political Writings of St. Augustine
• A Refutation of Moral Relativism
• War: Ends and Means
• The Soviet Union Fights the Cold War (CD-ROM; in IWP library)

628 Military Strategy: Theory and Practice (Harmon)

• America in Vietnam
• The Art of War
• Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
• Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
• On Guerilla Warfare
• On War
• The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945
• The Second World War
• Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
• Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War
• Unrestricted Warfare

631 Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions, and Policy (Glancy)

• The Essential Guide to Rhetoric Paperback
• LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
• Propaganda Technique in the World War
• Psychological Warfare

633 Terrorism (Danis)

• Inside Terrorism

634 Geography and Strategy (Chodakiewicz) – Both sections

• Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War
• Concise Atlas of the World
• Course reader (available in IWP library)

640 Cultural Intelligence for Strategy and Analysis (Santoli)

• Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
• Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield
• The Book of Five Rings
• Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
• Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676
• Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures
• Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across Cultures
• In the Midst of Wars: An American’s Mission to Southeast Asia
• Operational Control for the Warfighter: Principles and Applications
• Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America

642 Economics for Foreign Policy Makers (Bradley) – Both sections

• After War
• Basic Economics
• Free Trade Under Fire

645 Islam in Contemporary Global Politics (Streusand)

• The Closing of the Muslim Mind
• Introduction to Islam
• The ISIS Apocalypse
• Islam and Politics
• Islam in Transition
• Islamic Exceptionalism
• A World Without Islam

647 Case Studies in Counterintelligence Operations (Quattrocki)

• Cold Warrior
• My 5 Cambridge Friends
• Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer
• Spy Wars
• Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher’s World
• Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11

648 Military Intelligence and Modern Warfare (diGruttolo)

• Pending

649 Mass Murder Prevention in Failed and Failing States (Chodakiewicz)

• The Black Book of Communism
• Death by Government
• The Fate of Africa
• Fires of Hatred
• The Last Crusade

656 Intelligence Collection (Thomas/Blankenship)

• After Fidel
• America’s Space Sentinels
• The Art of Intelligence
• The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation
• CIA’s Secret Operations
• Comrade J
• Curveball
• Hard Measures
• How To Break a Terrorist
• Intelligence Collection
• Secret Sentry
• Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History
• The Third Battle

657 U.S. Approaches to Irregular Warfare (Tsagronis)

• The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service
• Counterinsurgency Field Manual (U.S. Army Field Manual No. 3-14)
• Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism from Al-Qa’ida to ISIS
• Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
• Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
• The Way of the Knife: The CIA, A Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

663 Cyber Statecraft (Tsagronis)

• The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
• Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
• Exploding Data: Reclaiming our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
• The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Companies and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
• LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
• The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
• The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

667 Forecasting and Political Risk Analysis (Glancy)

• The Elements of Thinking in Systems: Use Systems Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions
• Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
• The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-interest to See and Shape the Future
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

668 The Role and Importance of HUMINT (Sano)

• The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
• Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy

671 The United States and China in Power Transition (Tkacik)

• China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition
• Dragon by the Tail, American, British, Japanese and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
• The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
• Red Star over the Pacific
• War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

682 International Organizations and Multilateral Diplomacy (Schroeder)

• The Eurasian Economic Union: Putin’s Geopolitical Project
• Fractured Continent: Europe’s Crises and the Fate of the West
• The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward
• International Organizations: A Companion
• Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order
• The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security: A Challenge to be Met

683 Violent Non-State Actors in Today’s Security Environment (Danis)

• Armed Groups: The 21st Century Conflict

685 The Turks and MENA in History and Today (Williams)

• Turkey and America: East and West – Where the Twain Meet

687 U.S. Bilateral Security Agreements (Schroeder)

• Asian Maritime Strategies: Navigating Troubled Water
• Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home (Ch. 4 only)
• Lessons Encountered: Learning From the Long War
• Additional on-line readings will be assigned (available in syllabus)

688 Energy Security and the New Geopolitics of Energy (Vakhshouri)

• Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
• Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
• Energy Security: Economics, Politics, Strategies, and Implications
• An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics, and Politics
• Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
• Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
• Petroleum Refining in Non-Technical Language
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
• Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power

689 North Korea and the Geopolitics of Northeast Asia (Sano)

• The Education of Kim Jong-Un
• Global Allies: Comparing U.S. Alliances in the 21st Century
• Japan’s Security Reconaissance
• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
• North Korea and the World
• North Korea through the Looking Glass
• Nuclear North Korea
• Over the Line: North Korea’s Negotiating Strategy
• South Korea at the Crossroads
• Talking to North Korea
• Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

691 Cyber Strategy and Development (Billingsley)

• Pending