PS160 Force and Strategy, Fall 2008

Calendar

Session	Type	Title
1	Lecture	Introduction
2	Lecture	Security Studies - the Relationship between Theory and Policy
3	Lecture	Strategy, the Security Dilemma, and the Offense--Defense Balance
4	Lecture	Measuring Variable and Causal Effects--Offense-Defense Theory
5	Lecture	U.S. Grand Strategy in a Unipolar World
6	Lecture	Debating Global Reactions to U.S. Preponderance
7	Lecture	Dynamics of Coercion: Credibility, Capability, and 1930s Appeasement Crises
8	Lecture	Doing Research in Security Studies--Some Tips
9	Lecture	Debates about Airpower and Strategic Bombing
10	Lecture	Punishment and Strategic Interdiction: Allied Bombing of Germany
11	Lecture	Explaining Japan's Unconditional Surrender
12	Lecture	Paradoxes of U.S. Military Dominance
13	Lecture	Precision Airpower, SOF, and the "Afghan Model" of Warfare
14	Lecture	U.S. Nuclear Doctrine and Force Posture (1991-present)
15	Lecture	The Privatization of Military Forces and Functions
16	Lecture	The Rise of China and the Future of the Balance-of-power in Asia
17	Lecture	Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
18	Lecture	Nuclear Deterrence between Enduring Rivals--India and Pakistan
19	Lecture	Dealing with a Nuclear-Armed Iran (a crisis simulation)
20	Lecture	Ethnic/Sectarian Civil Wars and Criteria for Military Intervention
21	Lecture	Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: Iraq
22	Lecture	Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: Afghanistan
23	Lecture	State Sponsorship of Terrorism
24	Lecture	Limits of State Sponsored Terrorism
25	Lecture	Conclusions