Examine diplomatic, military, and intelligence related responsibilities and challenges inherent in strategy and state leadership.

Explore the history of diplomacy and war in the American regime. Examine the practice of American statecraft in relation to foreign affairs and the permanent principles of grand strategy.

Examine the texts and ideas that shape foreign affairs and war in the preclassical era and antiquity through the European Renaissance. Explore issues such as the justice of war and peace, the relationship between the regime and strategic imperatives, the philosophic arguments for just war, and the ontological nature of conflict. Study sources such as Herodotus, Sun Tzu, Augustine, and Machiavelli.

Examine one or more topics in foreign affairs, diplomacy, intelligence, and war.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad advisor in the School of Civic Leadership. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Examine the texts and ideas that shape foreign affairs and war from the Reformation through the present. Explore questions such as the nature of victory, the relationship between politics, technology, and war in the modern state, the possibility of order during conflict, and the psychology of conflict. Study works such as Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Alfred Mahan, Reinhold Niebuhr, and contemporary reflections on grand strategy and war.

Examine problems of justice in the context of war, defense, and diplomacy. Explore the relationship between a society's moral foundations and foreign policy, questions of ethical conduct and warfare, and the challenges of citizenship with respect to foreign policy decisions. Discuss readings that may include Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, Henry Kissinger, as well as memoirs and contemporary scholarship.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad advisor in the School of Civic Leadership. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Discuss the challenges of strategy, statecraft, and war through literature. Explore issues such as the individual and society, narrative voice, historical memory, technology, and ethics. Discuss readings that may include works such as the Hebrew Bible, Homer, Shakespeare, Hugo, or Heinlein.

Explore great power competitions of both the past and the present and the ways states seek to achieve their goals in the international system today. Evaluate how political regimes shape military and diplomatic policy. Analyze the role of economic power in the global system.

Examine themes and case studies in war, defense, diplomacy, intelligence, or law.

Examine themes and case studies in war, defense, diplomacy, intelligence, or law.

Analyze one or more eras in diplomatic and military history.

Examine one or more eras in military and diplomatic history.

Discuss classic texts in war and foreign affairs at an advanced level.

Discuss themes and case studies related to war, defense, diplomacy, intelligence, and law at an advanced level.

Participate in a professional internship. Reflect on internship to improve ability to both articulate preferences and skills, and to match them with appropriate career-related choices.

Participate in a professional internship. Reflect on internship to improve ability to both articulate preferences and skills, and to match them with appropriate career-related choices.