SPRING 2023 REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
Jan. 9-Apr. 28, 2023 | 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
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)
- 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
- Spy Satellites and other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History
606 Ideas and Values in International Politics (Muravchik)
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
610 Counterintelligence in a Democratic Society (Thomas)
- Active Measures
- American Spies. Espionage against the United States from the Cold War to the Present
- Cassidy’s Run
- To Catch a Spy
- Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2015 (available online from the Defense Personnel Security Research Center website)
- Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics
- Chinese Industrial Espionage
- Circle of Treason
- Comrade J
- A Counterintelligence Reader, Vols. I-IV (Available online at www.fas.org and www.dni.gov)
- In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage
- Fool’s Mate
- MH/CHAOS
- NOIR White Papers: Three Part Series of White Papers on Insider Threat, Counterintelligence and Counterespionage
- Spies and Lies
- Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad. How to be a Counterintelligence Officer
- Traitors Among Us
- United States National Counterintelligence Strategy (available at www.dni.gov)
- VENONA. Soviet Espionage and The American Response, 1939-1947 (Available online at www.cia.odci.gov)
615 Western Moral and Political Thought (Teti)
Please purchase hard copies.
- The Landmark Thucydides
- On Duties
- Leviathan
- Nicomachean Ethics
- 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 21st 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)
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
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)
635 History of American Foreign Policy (Tierney)
- American Foreign Policy Since World War II
- The American Style of Foreign Policy
- Promised Land, Crusader State
641 Political Warfare: Past, Present, and Future (Glancy)
- The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
- Modern Political Warfare (PDF)
- On Political War (on-line version)
- Political Warfare: Strategies for Combatting China’s Plan to “Win without Fighting” (on-line version)
- Political Warfare and Psychological Operations (on-line version)
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 required readings for this course.
652 Estimative Intelligence Analysis and Epistemology (Almont)
- Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives
- Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence
- Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security
- How Doctors Think
- Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach
- An Introduction to Intelligence Research and Analysis
- The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
- Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs
- Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis
- Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis
- Surprise Attack
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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 ISIS Reader: Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement
- The Mind of the Islamic State: ISIS and the Ideology of the Caliphate
662 Surprise, Warning, and Deception (Thomas)
- TBA
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
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)
669 Counterterrorism and the Democracies (Harmon)
- A Citizen’s Guide to Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Countering WMD
- Democracy and Counterterrorism
- Terrorists at the Table
670 Counterterrorism through Cultural Engagement and Economic Development (Santoli)
- To Bear Any Burden
- The Bottom Billion
- Breaking the Conflict Trap
- Criminalized Power Structures
- The Dying Citizen
- Full Spectrum Diplomacy
- The Man Who Fed the World
- Prisoners of Geography
- Unrestricted Warfare
- Village in Vietnam
- Why Nations Fail
672 Crisis Management and Decisionmaking (Tsagronis)
ALL BOOKS ARE RECOMMENDED ONLY.
- Avoiding War: Problems of Crisis Management
- Decision-making During International Crisis
- Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd edition
- Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council
- The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
- Knowing One’s Own Enemies: Intelligence Assessment Before the Two World Wars
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 Postwar Defectors
- The Storm Petrels: The Flight of the First Soviet Defectors
- Witness
- Other readings from journals will be assigned
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)
- American Defense Policy
- Buying National Security: How American Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home
- How Much Is Enough: Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969
- The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
- Other on-line publications and articles will be assigned in syllabus.
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)
688 Energy Security and the Geopolitics of Energy (Vakhshouri)
- The Crisis in Energy Policy
- Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
- Energy Security: Economics, Politics, Strategies, and Implications
- An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics, and Politics
- The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
- Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
- Petroleum Refining in Non-Technical Language
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
- Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power
691 Cyber Strategy Development (Billingsley)
Readings will be available online (no charge)
701 Geospatial Intelligence (Hodge)
**Please contact the professor at nhodge@iwp.edu before making any purchases. The readings below are available in PDF format.**
- America’s Space Sentinels: The History of the DSP and SBIRS Satellite Systems
- Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites
- Eyes in the Sky. Eisenhower, the CIA and Cold War Aerial Espionage
- The Five Disciplines Intelligence Collection
- The History of Big Safari
- Introduction to Space: The Science of Spaceflight
- Looking Down Corridors. Allied Aerial Espionage over East Germany and Berlin 1945-1990
- Spyflights and Overflights: U.S. Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance 1945-1960
- Additional required readings will be available online.
703 The Theory and Practice of North Korean Espionage (Won)
- Chinese Communist Espionage
- Dear Leader
- A Mig-15 to Freedom
- Communism in Korea
- The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
- North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa
- North Korean Special Forces
- On Socialist Pedagogy
- Russian Intelligence: A Case-based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present
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.