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SPRING 2021 REQUIRED TEXTS

January 11-May 1, 2021

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)

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)

• Heaven on Earth
• Other 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

609 Economic Statecraft and Conflict (Glancy)

• Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
• Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
• War By Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft

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: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
• Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2015 (available online from Defense Human Resources Activity)
• Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics
• Chinese Industrial Espionage
• 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
• 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
• Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response (on-line version available at www.cia.gov

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

622 Comparative Intelligence Systems (Quattrocki)

• Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine
• Chekisty: A History of the KGB
• The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affairs to the Gulf War
• Mi6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949
• Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars
• The Sword and the Shield
• Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
• Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China

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

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)

635 History of American Foreign Policy (Tierney)

• American Foreign Policy Since World War II
• The American Style of Foreign Policy
• Promised Land, Crusader State

637 Public Diplomacy and Strategic Influence (Glancy) Directed Study

• Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy
• The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy

639 U.S.-African Relations (Snyder)

• China in Africa
• The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
• U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik

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 and Psychological Operations (on-line version)
• Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary
• On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (available online)

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)

643 Introduction to Graduate Writing (Hamlen)

• No textbooks required

652 Estimative Intelligence Analysis and Epistemology (Almont)

• Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives
• Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence
• Handbook of Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis
• Handbook of Warning Intelligence: Assessing the Threat to National Security
• How Doctors Think
• Inside CIA’s Private World
• Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach
• An Introduction to Intelligence Research and Analysis
• The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
• Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs
• Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis
• Surprise Attack
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
• Writing Classified and Unclassified Papers for National Security

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)

• Able Archer 83
• Handbook of Warning Intelligence
• Intelligence and Surprise Attack
• Political Influence Operations
• Predicting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Intelligence Community’s Record (available online at www.cia.gov)
• Strategic Warning and the Role of Intelligence: Lessons Learned from the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia (available online at www.cia.gov)
• Strategic Warning on NATO’s Eastern Flank
• Strategic Warning Intelligence
• The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War
• Warning Order: China Prepares for Conflict and Why We Must do the Same

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)

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

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)

• To Bear Any Burden
• The Bottom Billion
• Breaking the Conflict Trap
• Connecticut Unscathed
• Criminalized Power Structures
• Cultural Intelligence
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Full Spectrum Diplomacy
• The Man Who Fed the World

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 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
• The $650 Billion Bargain: The Case for Modest Growth in America’s Defense Budget
• Other on-line publications and articles will be assigned in syllabus.

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 and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
• Energy Security: Economics, Politics, Strategies, and Implications
• An Introduction to Petroleum Technology, Economics, and Politics
• Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
• Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
• 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

799 Capstone Course (Marlo)

• No textbooks required.

922-925 French, 940-944 Arabic, 945-949 Chinese, and 950-955 Russian

• Please contact your professor for the required texts.
• French: rachael.williams@iwp.edu; Arabic: hmekki@iwp.edu; Chinese: jjewell@iwp.edu; Russian: emastri@iwp.edu