SUMMER 2022 REQUIRED TEXTS (SESSION 1 only)
May 9 – June 24, 2022
NOTE #1: Additional readings may be assigned by professors, such as course readers, handouts, and on-line articles.
NOTE #2: The books below are largely from Amazon.com. Other booksellers may also be used if it is more convenient and/or more cost effective to do so.
625 Peace, Strategy, and Conflict Resolution (Santoli)
- Accidental Superpower
- China’s Negotiating Behavior
- Five Days in London: May 1940
- Full Spectrum Diplomacy
- The Power of Geography
- Prisoners of Geography
- Reagan’s War
- Red Handed
- The Twilight Struggle: The Soviet Union vs. The United States Today
- Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
632 U.S. Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond (Thomas)
- Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World
- Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine
- China’s Grand Strategy (free PDF)
- The Main Enemy. The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB
- Mind-Sets and Missiles: A Firsthand Account of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam
- Preventing Catastrophe. The Use and Misuse of Intelligence in Efforts to Halt the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Russia’s Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall
- Russia’s Grand Strategy: Reality and Rhetoric (free PDF)
- Secret Sentry: The Untold Story of the National Security Agency
- Spy Satellites and Other Technologies that Changed History
634 Geography and Strategy (Chodakiewicz)
- Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War
- Concise Atlas of the World
- Course reader (available in IWP library)
642 Economics for Foreign Policy Makers (Bradley)
- After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
- Basic Economics
- Free Trade Under Fire
- Wealth of Nations (available in PDF)
650 Writing for National Security Professionals (Sano)
- No textbooks required for this course
663 Cyber Statecraft (Tsagronis)
These books are strongly recommended only. You are not required to purchase them if their cost is prohibitive and your expected use of them is limited.
- The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
- The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Companies and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threat
- The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
- The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
- Exploding Data: Reclaiming our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
- The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
- LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
668 The Role and Importance of HUMINT (Sano)
672 Crisis Management and Decisionmaking (Tsagronis)
No required texts
- Avoiding War: Problems of Crisis Management (RECOMMENDED ONLY)
- Decision-making During International Crisis (RECOMMENDED ONLY)
- Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd edition (RECOMMENDED ONLY)
- Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (RECOMMENDED ONLY)
- The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (RECOMMENDED ONLY)
- Knowing One’s Own Enemies: Intelligence Assessment Before the Two World Wars (RECOMMENDED ONLY)
686 Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (Harmon)
Arabic, Chinese, French, and Russian languages
- Please check with your professor about the required text/materials for the course.
ONLINE COURSES
IWPO 627 International Relations, Statecraft, and Integrated Strategy (Robbins)
- 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)