Concentrations are intended to allow Bush students to fashion a specific program of study tailored to their needs and interests. A concentration in International Politics and Grand Strategy consists of three courses from the list below (selected courses may not count as contributing to more than two concentrations).
Grand Strategy and Defense Policy
Faculty coordinators: Professors John Schuessler and Jasen Castillo
Core Courses – students must take at least one of the following (listed in BOLD)
- INTA 617 Deterrence and Coercion (Castillo)
- INTA 620 International Security (Kanin – DC)
- INTA 623 Grand Strategy (Layne) – CORE COURSE
- INTA 631 US Military Power (Castillo) – CORE COURSE
- INTA 645 Women and Nations (Hudson)
- INTA 646 Foreign Policy Analysis (Hudson)
- INTA 648 Contemporary Civil Wars (Huang)
- INTA 650 National Security Law (Sievert)
- INTA 654 Military Strategy (Castillo)
- INTA 659 Transnational Security (Huang)
- INTA 661 NATO: From Military Alliance to Collective Security (Thornton)
- INTA 665 National Security and Defense Planning (TBD)
- INTA 672 East Asian Security (Norris)
- INTA 674 US Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf (Tabaar)
- INTA 676 International Politics of the Middle East (Gause)
- INTA 689 DoD: An Instrument of National Power (TBD)
- INTA 689 War or Peace in the Space Domain (Jackson)
- INTA 704 American Grand Strategy (Schuessler) – CORE COURSE
- INTA 706 Cyberspace Implications for National Security (Brown)
- INTA 711 Briefing Tradecraft (Weary)
- INTA 714 Defense Intelligence (TBD)
- INTA 719 US-Mexico Relations (Teague)
- INTA 721 History, Strategy, and American Statecraft (Bartel)
- HIST 634 Maritime History and Sea Power
- HIST 645 Modern Military History (History faculty)
- NUEN 650 Nuclear Non-proliferation (NUEN faculty Dr. Sunil Chirayath)
