INTA 689 Private Sector Intelligence
The ‘Private Sector Intelligence’ course will consider the application of the intelligence discipline in the corporate world. Topics will include the management of insider risk, threats from foreign actors, and competitive intelligence programs. Privacy, ethics and civil liberty concerns will also be addressed.
INTA 650 National Security Law
‘National Security Law,’ a law course for non-lawyers, will discuss the foundations of U.S. international and national security law. It will address specific topics, such as counterterrorism, cyber warfare, detention, constitutional rights, and the safeguarding of national defense information.
INTA 689 Strategic Intelligence
‘Strategic Intelligence’ will consider real-world intelligence issues, including past intelligence community support to U.S. national security ‘successes’ and ‘failures’. Historic strengths and weaknesses of U.S. foreign policy, national security, and intelligence activities will also be examined.
INTA 712 Non-Technical Intro to Cyber Policy
‘Non-technical Cyber Policy’ will review policy, law and global frameworks related to cyberspace. U.S. cyber and cyber-enabled information operation capabilities will be examined, as well as the cyber activities of state and non-state adversaries. The intent is for students to become informed consumers of cyber-policy.
INTA 689 Energy, Climate, & National Security
Energy, Climate and National Security’ will introduce students to the role of energy in international politics and consider security issues related to climate change, resource scarcity and energy transition. The intersection of energy security, the economy and national security will also be considered.
INTA 605 American Foreign Policy
An examination of American foreign policy from 1945 to the present; focus on decisions made by American elected and appointed officials at critical moments of the Cold War and after; theory provides a framework, but the focus is on practical matters that confronted decision-makers.
INTA 622 Chinese Strategic Thought
Intensive reading and research course in Chinese strategic thought from the Warring State period (403-221 BC) to 21st century China with two goals: to provide an introductory understanding of the nature of strategic thinking throughout Chinese history and to provide the conceptual tools to put Chinese strategic thought in a comparative perspective.
INTA 680 Political Violence & Terrorism
Focuses on terrorism as special case of political violence and on non-state actors as a specific category of players toward which the international system must adapt; develops underlying concepts of terrorism and core response strategies to terrorism; develops both national and international responses to terrorism, emphasizing need for complementary policy approaches.
INTA 716 Latin America Democracy & Development
Explanation of the underlying causes and consequences of populism, industrialization, authoritarianism, democratization, neoliberalism, popular representation in Latin American countries.
INTA 689 Research Methods
INTA 606 International Politics in Theory & Practice
The effects of international politics on the competing forces of global integration and disintegration are investigated and policy implications are considered, drawing upon theories of interstate politics.
INTA 672 East Asia Security
Examination of international military, diplomatic and political dynamics in the Asia Pacific region; focus on contemporary security relations; examines a wide range of security challenges facing the region; familiarization with the strategic preferences of key actors in the major areas of potential conflict.
INTA 608 Global Economy
Examines three fundamental pillars of the global economy: international trade, international finance and foreign direct investment (FDI); appreciation for the complexities of the international environment from both theoretical and policy perspectives.
PSAA 655 Domestic Intelligence Operations
Familiarization with the important trends in European politics and security; investigation of the rise of nationalism and extremist groups in the European Union; the newest immigration trends, their impact on the EU member states and on the EU as a whole; terrorism and other forms of political violence in the European Union and the strategies developed to counter them; relationships between extremist groups in Europe and the U.S.
INTA 670 Capstone
Capstone team exercise in subject related to international affairs.
INTA 689 African Politics & Regional Affairs
INTA 607 Eurasian Security
Examination of shifting power politics in Eurasia; study of Eurasian security; analysis of Russia and China as global powers; evaluation of Russia and China on policymaking in Eurasia.
INTA 652 Role of Intelligence in Security Affairs
A survey of U.S. Intelligence operations, techniques, objectives and resources, with particular emphasis on how intelligence has contributed and continues to contribute to U.S. national security.
INTA 689 European Security
INTA 698 Advanced Analytic Tradecraft
Preparation for performing analysis in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) utilizing advance analytics, including Diagnostic, Contrarian and Imaginative Structured Analytic Techniques (SAT).
INTA 689 Geo-Economics of East Asia
INTA 689 European Politics & Institutions
INTA 651 National Security & the Military
INTA 689 Iran: From Islamic Revolution to Regional Power
INTA 696 Analytic Tradecraft
INTA 622 Russia & International Relations
INTA 689 U.S. in the Middle East
INTA 658 Congress & International Security
Develop knowledge of Congress, gain a deeper understanding of the key concepts, players institutions, intergovernmental processes, and contemporary issues in the topic area of Congress and international and national security policy.
INTA 676 International Politics of the Middle East
Focus on critical issues including Great Power involvement in the region, and the regional and international effects of Arab nationalism, Zionism, Islamism, post-Islamism, oil and aid rents, ethnicity, religious minorities, gender and human rights.
INTA 714 Defense Intelligence
INTA 689 The Ukraine War & Eastern European Politics
INTA 740 Latin American Politics and Regional Affairs
Examination of U.S. policy toward Latin America; analysis of the foundations of U.S. policy in the region as a basis for our investigation of current issues.
PSAA 654 U.S. Border Security
U.S. border security policies, strategies and issues; policies and strategies for homeland defense and security; Mexican and Canadian governments’ border policies; southern U.S. border situation and issues; considerations when border land is privately versus federally owned; impact of criminal elements on border security; efforts to secure the U.S. coasts.
INTA 637 Field Research Methods
Overview of major field research methods including field experiments, behavioral games and household surveys.
INTA 689 Economic Diplomacy
INTA 689 Special Topics in Intelligence Analysis
INTA 628 Identity & Ideology in International Politics
PSAA 655 Domestic Intelligence Operations
Examination of laws and national policies and operations surrounding domestic intelligence within the United States; departments and agencies with domestic intelligence responsibilities, their missions, operations and resources; selected readings, government documents and case studies.
INTA 741 People, Regimes, and Power
Evaluation of the interplay between people, regimes, and power; examination of how political institutions, actors, and processes arise, operate, and change the world; explanation of the history of the Arab Spring and its impact on the Middle East.
