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SUMMER 2021 REQUIRED TEXTS

SESSION 2: July 5-Aug. 24, 2021

Course Schedule

NOTE: Additional readings may be assigned by professors, such as course readers, handouts, and on-line articles.

638 U.S. Foreign Policy: Current and Future Challenges (Tierney)

• American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
• Conceived in Liberty: The American Worldview in Theory and Practice
• The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century
• U.S. Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower
• U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress (PDF)

650 Writing for National Security Professionals (Sano)

• No required texts are assigned for this course.

658 Contemporary Conflict in the Greater Middle East (Streusand)

• Middle East Patterns: Places, People, and Politics

668 The Role and Importance of HUMINT (Sano)

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

686 Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (Harmon)

• The Terrorist Argument: Modern Advocacy and Propaganda
• Additional articles and essays will be assigned

688 Energy and the Geopolitics of Energy (Vakhshouri)

• An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics, and Politics
• Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
• Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power