SPRING 2021 REQUIRED TEXTS
January 11-May 1, 2021
NOTE: Additional readings may be assigned by professors, such as course readers, handouts, and on-line articles.
601 National Security Policy Process (Tsagronis)
- American National Security (required)
- Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (required)
- National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth (required)
- Fear: Trump in the White House (recommended only)
- Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (recommended only)
- The Constitution and National Security (recommended only)
- National Security Law (recommended only)
- Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law (recommended only)
- Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama (recommended only)
- Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (recommended only)
603 Russian Politics and Foreign Policy (Chodakiewicz)
- Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union
- Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
- Intermarium: The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas
- It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past
- The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
- The Russian Syndrome: One Thousand Years of Political Murder
- The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991
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
606 Ideas and Values in International Politics (Muravchik)
- Heaven on Earth
- Other readings will be assigned.
608 Sources of American Political Thought (Wood)
- Constitutional Conservatism
- Democracy in America
- The Federalist Papers
- An Intellectual History of Liberalism
- Aristotle’s Politics
- Promised Land, Crusader State
- The Bible (as assigned) – any version
- The Roots of American Order
- The Second Treatise of Government
- Why Liberalism Failed
609 Economic Statecraft and Conflict (Glancy)
- Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
- Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
- War By Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft
610 Counterintelligence in a Democratic Society (Thomas)
- Active Measures
- American Spies: Espionage Against the United States from the Cold War to the Present
- Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
- Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2015 (available online from Defense Human Resources Activity)
- Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics
- Chinese Industrial Espionage
- Circle of Treason: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
- Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War
- Fool’s Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency
- In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage
- MH/CHAOS: The CIA’s Campaign Against the Radical New Left and the Black Panthers
- Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer
- To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence
- Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher’s World
- Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response (on-line version available at www.cia.gov
615 Western Moral and Political Tradition (Wood)
- After Virtue
- The Agricola and Germania
- The Bible (any version)
- The Four Cardinal Virtues
- Gorgias
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Nicomachean Ethics
- On Free Choice of the Will
- St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics
- Utilitarianism
616 U.S. National Security Strategy and Emerging Threats (Tsagronis)
ALL BOOKS RECOMMENDED ONLY
- 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 21st 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)
622 Comparative Intelligence Systems (Quattrocki)
- Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine
- Chekisty: A History of the KGB
- The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affairs to the Gulf War
- Mi6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949
- Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars
- The Sword and the Shield
- Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
- Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China
627 International Relations, Statecraft, and Integrated Strategy (Lenczowski)
- 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 Guerrilla 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
634 Geography and Strategy, Both sections (Chodakiewicz)
- Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War
- Concise Atlas of the World
- Course reader (available in IWP library)
635 History of American Foreign Policy (Tierney)
- American Foreign Policy Since World War II
- The American Style of Foreign Policy
- Promised Land, Crusader State
637 Public Diplomacy and Strategic Influence (Glancy) Directed Study
- Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy
- The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy
639 U.S.-African Relations (Snyder)
- China in Africa
- The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
- U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik
641 Political Warfare: Past, Present and Future (Glancy)
- The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
- Modern Political Warfare (PDF)
- On Political War (on-line version)
- Political Warfare and Psychological Operations (on-line version)
- Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary
- On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (available online)
642 Economics for Foreign Policymakers, Both sections (Bradley)
- Basic Economics
- After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
- Free Trade Under Fire
- Wealth of Nations (available in PDF)
643 Introduction to Graduate Writing (Hamlen)
- No textbooks required
652 Estimative Intelligence Analysis and Epistemology (Almont)
- Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives
- Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence
- Handbook of Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis
- Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security
- How Doctors Think
- Inside CIA’s Private World
- Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach
- An Introduction to Intelligence Research and Analysis
- The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
- Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs
- Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis
- Surprise Attack
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
- Writing Classified and Unclassified Papers for National Security
659 Enemy Threat Doctrine of Global Jihadism (Streusand)
- The Al-Qaeda Doctrine: The Framing and Evolution of the Leadership’s Public Discourse
- Al-Qa-ida’s Doctrine for Insurgency
- Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist, Abu Mus’ab Al-Suri
- Decoding Al-Qaeda’s Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America
- The Mind of the Islamic State: ISIS and the Ideology of the Caliphate
662 Surprise, Warning, and Deception (Thomas)
- Able Archer 83
- Handbook of Warning Intelligence
- Intelligence and Surprise Attack
- Political Influence Operations
- Predicting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Intelligence Community’s Record (available online at www.cia.gov)
- Strategic Warning and the Role of Intelligence: Lessons Learned from the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia (available online at www.cia.gov)
- Strategic Warning on NATO’s Eastern Flank
- Strategic Warning Intelligence
- The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War
- Warning Order: China Prepares for Conflict and Why We Must do the Same
663 Cyber Statecraft (Tsagronis)
- The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Companies and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats (required)
- The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics (required)
- The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (required)
- The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity (recommended only)
- Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (recommended only)
- Exploding Data: Reclaiming our Cyber Security in the Digital Age (recommended only)
- LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (recommended only)
- The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence (recommended only)
665 Corporate Statecraft (Tsagronis)
ALL BOOKS RECOMMENDED ONLY
- The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
- Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror
- Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
- Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story
- Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex
668 The Role and Importance of HUMINT (Sano)
669 Counterterrorism and the Democracies (Danis)
- Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism
- Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past
670 Counterterrorism Through Cultural Engagement and Development (Santoli)
- To Bear Any Burden
- The Bottom Billion
- Breaking the Conflict Trap
- Connecticut Unscathed
- Criminalized Power Structures
- Cultural Intelligence
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Full Spectrum Diplomacy
- The Man Who Fed the World
676 A Counterintelligence Challenge: The Enigmas and Benefits of Defectors (Messer)
- Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War
- Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
- The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors
- The Storm Petrels: The Flight of the First Soviet Defectors
- Witness
678 Covert Action and National Security (Sano)
- Executive Secrets: Covert Action and The Presidency
- Intelligence for an Age of Terror
- Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA
- Transforming U.S. Intelligence
679 Defense Strategy, Planning, and Budgeting (Schroeder)
- Buying National Security: How American Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home
- How Much Is Enough: Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969
- The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
- The $650 Billion Bargain: The Case for Modest Growth in America’s Defense Budget
- Other on-line publications and articles will be assigned in syllabus.
688 Energy Security and the Geopolitics of Energy (Vakhshouri)
- The Crisis in Energy Policy
- 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
799 Capstone Course (Marlo)
- No textbooks required.
922-925 French, 940-944 Arabic, 945-949 Chinese, and 950-955 Russian
- Please contact your professor for the required texts.
- French: rachael.williams@iwp.edu; Arabic: hmekki@iwp.edu; Chinese: jjewell@iwp.edu; Russian: emastri@iwp.edu