INTL634  - Threat Analysis

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This course is a study and analysis of international threats to security. It focuses on a variety of aspects related to both U.S. and foreign threat analysis and action, including the evolution of responses to threats, perspectives on threat action since World War II, principles of threat analysis and response, and assessments of successes and failures of such actions. The student will develop a comprehensive knowledge of threat analysis, how intelligence agencies in the U.S. assess and counter international threats in order to guard U.S. global interests and protect U.S. national security from adversaries, and how various threats affect national security policy and decision-making.

 

Prerequisites

N/A

Corequisites

N/A

Schedule of Classes

Registration Dates Course Dates Session
11/05/09 - 03/28/10 04/05/10 - 05/30/10 Spring 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
11/30/09 - 04/25/10 05/03/10 - 06/27/10 Spring 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
12/28/09 - 05/30/10 06/07/10 - 08/01/10 Spring 2010 Session D - 8 Week session
01/25/10 - 06/27/10 07/05/10 - 08/29/10 Summer 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
03/29/10 - 08/29/10 09/06/10 - 10/31/10 Summer 2010 Session D - 8 Week session
05/31/10 - 10/24/10 11/01/10 - 12/26/10 Fall 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
06/28/10 - 11/28/10 12/06/10 - 01/30/11 Fall 2010 Session D - 8 Week session

Course Materials

Book Title: Presidents Secret Wars: CIA & Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf
ISBN: 1566631084
Publication Info: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1996

Book Title: Clash of Civilizations & the Remaking of World Order
ISBN: 0684844419
Publication Info: Simon & Schuster, 1998

Book Title: Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror
ISBN: 0813339510
Publication Info: Westview Press, 2002

Book Title: Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons, Survival or Sentence
ISBN: 0813340977
Publication Info: Westview Press

Book Title: Intelligence - 4th ed
ISBN: 0872896005
Publication Info: Congressional Quarterly

Book Title: Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
ISBN: 0801474922
Publication Info: Cornell University Press

Book Title: Complex Deterrence : Strategy in the Global Age
ISBN: 0226650030
Publication Info: University of Chicago Press

 
 
 

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