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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate The role of the CIA and other intelligence organizations in formulating and implementing U.S. foreign policy. Includes human and technical intelligence gathering; processing and analysis; dissemination of information to policy makers; covert action and counterintelligence; the relationship between intelligence organizations, the President, and Congress; and ethics and the conduct of intelligence activities. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Analysis of American foreign and defense policy processes, including the role of the President, Congress, Departments of State and Defense, the intelligence community, and other actors/factors affecting policy formulation and implementation. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate An examination of the role that the U.S. Congress plays in shaping foreign policy. Emphasis is given to contemporary congressional behavior, through case studies, with attention also devoted to constitutional factors and historical patterns. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Policymaking, implementation, and control; civilian-military, military-industrial, and executive-legislative relations; and the interaction of security policies of the United States and other powers. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate An intensive reading, research, and discussion seminar focusing on U.S. relations with Russia, its predecessor, and other Eurasian states as an interaction, stressing the security aspects of that interaction. The primary emphasis is on security relations in the postwar period, 1945 to the present. Two sub themes of the seminar are the role of strategic culture and the dynamics of threats. Usually offered alternate falls.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This course is the first in a two course sequence, designed especially for Master of International Service (MIS) degree candidates. Providing an overview of new developments in international affairs, it connects theory to practice at the executive level in international affairs. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: admission to MIS program.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This course is the second in a two course sequence, designed especially for Master of International Service (MIS degree candidates. Focusing on professional strategies for coping with change and professional skills enhancement, the seminar also includes a capstone action research project. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: admission to MIS program.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This course examines how presidents use strategic communication to sell national security issues, the role of public opinion and the media on foreign-policy decision making, press-government relations, and the politics of military interventions.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This seminar examines theories about how states formulate foreign policy. The focus is on the decision-making process, including theories about individual rationally and cognition, information processing, risk taking, group dynamics, and bureaucratic politics, as well as the influence of domestic societal factors. The various theoretical approaches are applied to historical cases of international crises and intelligence failures, drawn primarily but not exclusively from American foreign policy.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Prerequisite: permission of instructor and SIS graduate studies office.
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