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FALL 2021 REQUIRED TEXTS

Aug. 30 – Dec. 11, 2021

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)

• 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)

605 Intelligence and Policy (Thomas) Online and in-person classes

• 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 in the National Security Enterprise
• Necessary Secrets
• Playing the Edge
• The President’s Book of Secrets
• Secret Sentry
• Sharpening Strategic Intelligence
• Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History

608 Sources of American Political Thought (Wood) Both sections

• 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

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 and Political Tradition (Wood) Both sections

• 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 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) Online and in-person class

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

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

631 Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions, and Policy (Glancy) Both sections

• 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) Online and in-person classes

• 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) Online and in-person classes

• America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
• Diplomacy
• Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy
• Statecraft: And How To Restore America’s Standing in the World
• Transforming Our World: President George H.W. Bush and American Foreign Policy

640 Cultural Intelligence for Strategy and Analysis (Santoli) Course held via Zoom in Fall 2021

• Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
• The Art of War
• Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield
• The Book of Five Rings
• The Bottom Billion
• Combat on Communist Territory
• Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676
• Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures
• Red, White, and Black
• To Bear Any Burden
• Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America

642 Economics for Foreign Policy Makers (Bradley) Online and in-person classes

• 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)

• A World Without Islam
• 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

647 Case Studies in Counterintelligence Operations (Quattrocki)

• TBA

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/Sano)

• After Fidel
• Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
• The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation
• Intelligence Collection
• Secret Sentry
• Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History

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)

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

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

• The Art of War, Sun Zi’s Military Methods
• 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
• War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

679 Defense Strategy, Planning, and Budgeting (Schroeder) Online and in-person classes

• TBA

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)

• TBA

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

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

Readings from the books below are excerpted in the IWP library database/course reader (no charge).

• The Education of Kim Jong-Un
• Global Allies: Comparing U.S. Alliances in the 21st Century
• Japan’s Security Reconnaissance
• 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

692 Cyber Terrorism (Davis)

• The FIFTH Domain
• The Perfect Weapon