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SPRING 2020 REQUIRED TEXTS

January 13-May 2, 2019

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

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

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

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

• After War
• Basic Economics
• Free Trade Under Fire

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

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

686 Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (Harmon)

• The Terrorist Argument: Modern Advocacy and Propaganda