SEST-510 Core Course: U.S. National Security Policy

SEST-510 Core Course: U.S. National Security Policy

Faculty:

Daniel, Donald

This is a required course for students in the M.A. in Security Studies Program who have a concentration in U.S. National Security Policy. It provides the intellectual foundation and conceptual tools needed to analyze contemporary U.S. national security issues. This course focuses on the role that US military forces play in guaranteeing and advancing American security. It surveys the factors that form the context for making U.S. policy decisions and addresses alternative perspectives on the choices facing policy-makers today. The first part of the course looks to three broad features of context: the domestic roots of policy, the post-1945 historical roots, and the international setting. The second part of the course looks to specific issues and to the grand strategy and broad defense policy alternatives confronting the American polity today.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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