3 Semester Hours
Prerequisites: PS 201 or HS 231. EN 101 is highly recommended but not required.
This course is an introduction into National Security Decision Making (NSDM) and the international relations context in which those decisions play out. The course presents the major factors, issues, and players found in the literature, emphasizing the role of explanatory theories and the level of analysis as techniques to understand national security decisions. The goals is to assist students to analyze better national security decisions through the use of the levels of analysis approach, critical, and logical thinking, and the application of selected international relations theories and explanatory frameworks.