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FALL 2020 REQUIRED TEXTS

August 31-December 12, 2020

Course Schedule

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

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) – 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

607 U.S. Nonproliferation and Nuclear Policy (Sokolski)

• Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation
• Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
• Additional on-line readings will be assigned

608 Sources of American Political Thought (Wood)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

• 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)

630 Chinese Grand Strategy: Foreign and Military Policy (Tkacik)

• The Art of War: Sun Zi’s Military Methods
• China Debates the Future Security 
• China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
• The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy
• Cyber Dragon: Inside China’s Information Warfare and Cyber Operations
• The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
• On China
• Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy
• Red Star Over the Pacific
• Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security
• The Origins of Political Order
• Taking the Fight to the Enemy
• What Good Is Grand Strategy?

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)
• Psychological Warfare (available free online)

633 Terrorism (Danis)

• Inside Terrorism

634 Geography and Strategy, Both sections (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: And How To Restore America’s Standing in the World
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

640 Cultural Intelligence for Strategy and Analysis (Santoli)

• 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
• Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
• Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676
• Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures
• Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across Cultures
• In the Midst of Wars: An American’s Mission to Southeast Asia
• Operational Control for the Warfighter: Principles and Applications
• Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America

642 Economics for Foreign Policymakers, Both sections (Bradley)

• Basic Economics
• After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
• Free Trade Under Fire
• Wealth of Nations (available in PDF)

647 Case Studies in Counterintelligence Operations (Quattrocki)

• Cold Warrior
• Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer
• Spy Wars
• Traitors Among Us

648 Military Intelligence and Modern Warfare (DiGruttolo)

• @War: The Rise of the Military Internet Complex
• Bytes, Bombs and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations
• Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001
• Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
• The Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making
• The Five Disciplines of Intelligence Collection
• G-2: Intelligence for Patton
• The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism – From al Qa’ida to ISIS
• Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abottabad
• Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror
• Intelligence and Military Operations
• Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond
• Intelligence in War
• Intelligence Collection
• Intelligence Collections: How to Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection in Complex Environments
• Intelligence Power in Peace and War
• Killer Elite
• Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions
• Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence
• Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
• Playing to the Edge
• Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security
• The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
• Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence
• The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War
• War, Strategy and Intelligence
• Warnings: Finding Cassandra to Stop Catastrophes

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/Blankenship)

• After Fidel
• America’s Space Sentinels
• The Art of Intelligence
• The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation
• CIA’s Secret Operations
• Comrade J
• Curveball
• Hard Measures
• How To Break a Terrorist
• Intelligence Collection
• Secret Sentry
• Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History
• The Third Battle
• Triple Agent

658 Contemporary Conflict in the Greater Middle East (Streusand)

• Middle East Patters: Places, People, and Politics

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 

667 Forecasting and Political Risk Analysis (Glancy)

• The Elements of Thinking in Systems: Use Systems Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions
• Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
• The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-interest to See and Shape the Future
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

668 The Role and Importance of HUMINT (Sano)

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

681 Intelligence and the Law (Schilling)

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

682 International Organizations and Multilateral Diplomacy (Schroeder)

• The Eurasian Economic Union: Putin’s Geopolitical Project
• Fractured Continent: Europe’s Crises and the Fate of the West
• The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward
• International Organizations: A Companion
• Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order
• The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security: A Challenge to be Met

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

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

• 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

691 Cyber Strategy Development (Billingsley)

• All required readings will be available on-line.

692 Cyber Terrorism (Davis)

• Most required readings will be available on-line.
• The Perfect Weapon may be used. Please contact Prof. Davis for more information (pdavis@iwp.edu).