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FALL 2022 REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS

Aug. 29-Dec. 10, 2022

Course Schedule

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.

601 National Security Policy Process (Tsagronis)

ALL READINGS FOR 601 ARE RECOMMENDED ONLY

• American National Security
• Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council 
• National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth
• Fear: Trump in the White House
• Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
• The Constitution and National Security
• 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)

• The Billion Dollar Spy
• The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Text is available online)
• The Constitution of the United States (students should possess their own copies)
• The Declaration of Independence (students should possess their own copies)
• Fair Play. The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
• The Great War of Our Time
• Intelligence in the National Security Enterprise
• Necessary Secrets. National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law
• Playing to the Edge
• The President’s Book of Secrets
• Secret Sentry
• Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA Gets It Wrong, and What Needs to be Done to Get It Right
• Spy Satellites and other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History

606 Ideas and Values in International Politics (McCranor)

• Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism

608 Sources of American Political Thought (Teti)

*Please purchase hard copies*

• America’s Rise and Fall Among Nations, Codevilla
• Bible (any standard edition)
• The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Jay and Madison
• On the Republic and On the Laws, Cicero
• The Politics, Aristotle (Lord trans.)
• The Rediscovery of America, Jaffa
• Two Treatises of Government, Locke
• Why Liberalism Failed, Deneen

609 Economic Statecraft (Glancy)

• Economic Statecraft: New Edition
• War By Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft

613 History of International Relations (Tierney)

• Europe’s Classic Balance of Power
• Politics and Culture in International History
• Theory and the International System

615 Western Moral and Political Thought, Section 1 (McCranor)

*Please purchase hard copies*

• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• On Law, Morality, and Politics
• Nicomachean Ethics
• The Prince
• Utilitarianism

615 Western Moral and Political Thought, Section 2 (Teti)

*Please purchase hard copies*

• The Landmark Thucydides
• Nicomachean Ethics
• On Duties
• Leviathan
• The Prince
• The Republic of Plato
• Treatise on Law
• The Use and Abuse of History
• Utilitarianism

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

ALL READINGS FOR 616 ARE 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 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 (Chodakiewicz)

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

627 International Relations (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

631 Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions, and Policy (Glancy)

• The Essential Guide to Rhetoric Paperback
• LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
• Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda (available free online)
• Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (available free online)
• Psychological Warfare (available free online)

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)

636 The Art of Diplomacy (Hughes)

• Diplomacy
• Statecraft
• America in the World
• Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy
• Transforming Our World: President George H.W. Bush and American Foreign Policy

640 Cultural Intelligence for Strategy and Analysis (Santoli)

• Before the First Shots Are Fired
• Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy
• Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures
• Combat on Communist Territory
• Prisoners of Geography
• The Bottom Billion
• Connecticut Unscathed: The Great Narragansett War
• The Dying Citizen
• The Art of War
• Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
• The Book of Five Rings
• To Bear Any Burden

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)

645 Islam in Contemporary Global Politics (Streusand)

• The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
• Introduction to Islam: Beliefs and Practices in Historical Perspective
• The ISIS Apocalypse: History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
• Islam and Politics
• Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives
• Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World
• A World Without Islam

647 Case Studies in Counterintelligence Operations (Quattrocki)

• TBA

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

• The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
• Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900
• The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair
• Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe

656 Intelligence Collection (Thomas/Sano)

• TBA

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

• Government documents will be made available online (no charge)

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)

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

671 The U.S. and China in Power Transition (Tkacik)

• China Debates the Future Security Environment
• China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition
• Chinese Negotiating Behavior
• Dragon by the Tail, American, British, Japanese and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
• Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power
• The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
• The Party: The Secret World of China’s Rulers
• War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

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

681 Intelligence and the Law (Schilling)

• Foreign Relations and National Security Law (suggest this textbook be rented, not purchased, for the term of the course)
• Mastering the U.S. Legal System: A Beginners Guide (available for purchase electronically)

682 International Organizations and Multilateral Diplomacy (Schroeder)

• The Eurasian Economic Union: Putin’s Geopolitical Project
• International Organizations: A Companion
• Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order
• People’s Republic of the United Nations: China’s Emerging Revisionism in International Organizations
• The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security: A Challenge to be Met
• The Will to Lead: America’s Indispensable Role in the Global Fight for Freedom

683 Violent Non-State Actors (Danis)

• American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
• Armed Groups: The 21st Century Conflict

685 The Turks: Relations with MENA, Europe, and America (Williams)

• A Sultan in Autumn – Erdogan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces

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

• Required readings may be found in the course reader (IWP Library database)

692 Cyber Terrorism and Intelligence (Davis)

• All required readings will be made available online

799 Capstone Course (Robbins)

• No textbooks required for this course

Arabic, Chinese, French, and Russian languages

• Please check with your professor about the required text/materials for the course.