PS160 Force and Strategy, Fall 2008

Lectures

Session	Type	Title
1	Lecture	Introduction	[Slides]
2	Lecture	Security Studies - the Relationship between Theory and Policy	[Slides]
3	Lecture	Strategy, the Security Dilemma, and the Offense--Defense Balance	[Slides]
4	Lecture	Measuring Variable and Causal Effects--Offense-Defense Theory	[Slides]
5	Lecture	U.S. Grand Strategy in a Unipolar World	[Slides]
6	Lecture	Debating Global Reactions to U.S. Preponderance
7	Lecture	Dynamics of Coercion: Credibility, Capability, and 1930s Appeasement Crises	[Slides]
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	[Slides]
11	Lecture	Explaining Japan's Unconditional Surrender	[Slides]
12	Lecture	Paradoxes of U.S. Military Dominance	[Slides]
13	Lecture	Precision Airpower, SOF, and the "Afghan Model" of Warfare	[Slides]
14	Lecture	U.S. Nuclear Doctrine and Force Posture (1991-present)	[Slides]
15	Lecture	The Privatization of Military Forces and Functions	[Slides]
16	Lecture	The Rise of China and the Future of the Balance-of-power in Asia	[Slides]
17	Lecture	Nuclear Weapons Proliferation	[Slides]
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	[Slides]
21	Lecture	Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: Iraq	[Slides]
22	Lecture	Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: Afghanistan	[Slides]
23	Lecture	State Sponsorship of Terrorism	[Slides]
24	Lecture	Limits of State Sponsored Terrorism	[Slides]
25	Lecture	Conclusions	[Slides]