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Lecture 1: Course Introduction
Lecture 2: Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture 3: ABC's of Nuclear Threats: Audiences, Bargaining and Commitment
Lecture 4: The Evolution of U.S. Nuclear Doctrine
Lecture 5: The Theory and Practice of Arms Control
Lecture 6: Making a Nuclear Bomb
Lecture 7: The Bush Administration and Grand Strategy
Lecture 8: Preventing Proliferation: Supply-Side Approaches
Lecture 9: Why States Build and Forego Nuclear Weapons
Lecture 10: NPT Negotiating Perspectives and Prospects
Lecture 11: Biological Weapons, International Health, and the Challenges of Homeland Defense
Lecture 12: Why the Department of Homeland Security is Likely to Fail
Lecture 13: Risk Analysis and Intelligence Failures: A Bayesian Approach
Lecture 14: Mass Casualty Terrorism: Linkage between WMD and WMD Terrorism
Lecture 15: The Logics of Terrorism
Lecture 16: Offensive Strategies in the War on Terror
Lecture 17: Intervention: Politics, Ethics and National Interests
Lecture 18: Postmodern Imperialism: The Problem of Weak States in the International System
Lecture 19: Shared Sovereignty and Statebuilding: Challenges in Theory and Practice
Lecture 20: The Costs and Benefits of Autonomous Recover: Perspectives on Nonintervention
Lecture 21: Iraq: Securing Democracy?
Lecture 22: Future Challenges to International Security: Technology
Lecture 23: International Security in a Changing World? Evaluating the "New" Security Environment
Lecture 24: Use of Force and the United Nations in a Changing World
Lecture 25: "The War on Terror" and "The Islamic World"
Lecture 26: China: Conflict and Compromise in a Changing Environment
Lecture 27: Conclusions and Observations

 

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