POLI 7825 Security Studies

This course is restricted to Political Science graduate students. Political Science Honors students may take this course with permission of the instructor. This seminar covers major concepts, theories, and research programs in the field of security studies: the concepts of national security and interests, strategy, and grand strategy; morality and war; civil-military relations; the security dilemma and offense-defense theory; alliance politics and collective security; arms races and arms control; nuclear strategy; coercive diplomacy; proliferation and counter-proliferation; and terrorism and counter-terrorism. In additional to reviewing key theoretical works on these subjects, we will examine important empirical cases from the Cold War and recent international crises.