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SPRING 2020 REQUIRED TEXTS

January 13-May 2, 2020

Course Schedule

Please note: Some classes will have additional required and recommended readings (articles, essays, etc.) that are not listed below. These will be listed in your course syllabi.

601 National Security Policy Process (Tsagronis)

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

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)

• Christianity and American Democracy
• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
• Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
• The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century

608 American Founding Principles and Foreign Policy (Wood)

• Constitutional Conservatism
• Dangerous Nation
• Democracy in America
• The Federalist Papers
• An Intellectual History of Liberalism
• 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 Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
• Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
• War By Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft

610 Counterintelligence in a Democratic Society (Thomas)

• American Spies: Espionage Against the United States from the Cold War to the Present
• Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
• The Expanding Spectrum of Espionage by Americans, 1947-2015 (free on-line version)
• 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
• The Millenial Generation: Implications for the Intelligence and Policy Communities
• Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
• 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
• True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba’s Master Spy
• Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response (on-line version also available)

615 Western Moral Tradition and World Politics (Wood)

• After Virtue
• The Agricola and Germania
• Aristotle’s Politics
• The Bible (any version)
• Gorgias
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• The Modern Age
• Morality and Contemporary Warfare
• Nicomachean Ethics
• On Free Choice of the Will
• Utilitarianism

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

• 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)

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

627 International Relations, Statecraft and Integrated Strategy (Lenczowski/Fontaine) – Both sections

• 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)

634 Geography and Strategy (Chodakiewicz) – Both sections

• 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

636 The Art of Diplomacy (Hughes)

• Diplomacy
• Statecraft: And How To Restore America’s Standing in the World
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

639 U.S.-African Relations (Snyder)

• The Fate of Africa
• China’s New Role in Africa
• The United States in Africa

641 Political Warfare: Past, Present and Future (Glancy)

• Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare from Truman to Putin
• The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
• Political Warfare and Psychological Operations (on-line version)
• Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary
• On Political War (on-line version)
• On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals
• Modern Political Warfare (PDF)

642 Economics for Foreign Policy Makers (Bradley) – Both sections

• After War
• Basic Economics
• Free Trade Under Fire

652 Estimative Intelligence Analysis and Epistemology (Ford)

• Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives
• Case Studies in Intelligence Analysis
• Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence
• How Doctors Think
• Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach
• The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Institutions Deceive Us
• The President’s Book of Secrets
• Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security
• Structured Analytical Techniques for Intelligence Analysis
• Surprise Attack
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• The Watchman Fell Asleep
• Why Intelligence Fails
• Other on-line readings will be assigned

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)

• Intelligence and Surprise Attack
• Strategic Warning Intelligence
• Handbook of Warning Intelligence
• The Deceivers: Allied Militay Deception in the Second World War
• Able Archer 83
• Israel’s Intelligence Assessment before the Yom Kippur War
• The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War
• Stalin’s Secret Agents

663 Cyber Statecraft (Tsagronis)

• The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Companies and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
• 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
• Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media
• Dark Territory:  The Secret History of Cyber War

665 Corporate Statecraft (Tsagronis)

• 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 Myths and Reality of Espionage
• Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy

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)

• Breaking the Conflict Trap
• Village in Vietnam
• The Man Who Fed the World
• Cultural Intelligence
• Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
• The Betrayal

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 Rolea and Safety at Home
• How Much Is Enough: Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969
• The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Moden American Defenee Strategy
• The $650 Billion Bargain: The Case for Modest Growth in America’s Defense Budget

681 Intelligence and the Law (Schilling)

• Foreign Relations and National Security Law (professor suggests that the book be rented for the course)
• Mastering the U.S. Legal System: A Beginner’s Guide

686 Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (Harmon)

• The Terrorist Argument: Modern Advocacy and Propaganda

688 Energy Security and the Geopolitics of Energy (Vakhshouri)

• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Power, and Money
• Energy and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
• Energy Security: Economics, Politics, Strategies, and Implications
• Petroleum Refining in Non-Technical Language
• Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
• Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power
• Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
• Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
• An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics, and Politics

692 Cyber Terrorism and Intelligence (Davis)

• All textbooks/readings will be available on-line