DSS Course Schedule: Summer 2023 Semester

Web conference courses

Class meets in real-time on specific day and time. Each course also has its own Course Reference Number (CRN).

Course Section Course Reference Number (CRN) Course name Instructor Modality
DSS 703 400 37383 Science, Technology and Defense Policy Rose/Taylor Zoom: Saturday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Eastern
DSS 725 400 37985 Instruments of State Power Ford Zoom: Monday, 6 p.m. Eastern
DSS 726 500 36503 Chinese Military Power Anderson Zoom:  Wednesday, 6 p.m. Eastern
DSS 797 500 37633 Special Topic: Great Power Competition McKinney MS Teams: Wednesday, 6 p.m. Eastern

In-resident, seated courses

Class meets in real-time on specific day and time. Each course also has its own Course Reference Number (CRN).

Course Section Course Reference Number (CRN) Course name Instructor Modality
DSS 703 300 32990 Science, Technology and Defense Policy Rose/Taylor Zoom: Saturday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Eastern
DSS 725 300 37984 Instruments of State Power Ford Zoom: Monday, 6 p.m. Eastern

Internet courses

Classes are asynchronous; no real-time class meetings are required.

Course Section Course Reference Number (CRN) Course name Instructor Modality
DSS 708 899 36520 Seminar on Contemporary Security Issues in Russia Marlo Online/Asynchronous
DSS 710 898 35935 Seminar on International Terrorism and Security Kiras Online/Asynchronous
DSS 710 899 35913 Seminar on International Terrorism and Security Gibson Online/Asynchronous
DSS 727 899 32994 Chemical and Biological Warfare: Global and Community Perspectives Moodie Online/Asynchronous
DSS 730 899 37616 Cyber Conflict and International Security Mazanec Online/Asynchronous
DSS 740 899 34358 Ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction Kartchner Online/Asynchronous

Arranged courses

Course Section Course Reference Number (CRN) Course name Instructor Modality
DSS 720 1 30911 Internship Training in DSS Policy Koch Arranged (In-resident)
DSS 720 899 35914 Internship Training in DSS Policy Koch Arranged (Internet)
DSS 794 1 35013 Active in Research Contact your academic advisor for enrollment details. Arranged
DSS 796 1 30912 Reading and Research in Defense and Strategic Studies (also course for Non-theis Project) Contact your academic advisor for enrollment details. Arranged (In-resident)
DSS 796 899 37014 Reading and Research in Defense and Strategic Studies (also course for Non-thesis Project) Contact your academic advisor for enrollment details. Arranged (Internet)
DSS 796 400 31912 Reading/Research in DSS: Energy Security Summit 2023 Rose Arranged (Zoom and Travel)

Required books

For summer 2023 semester (June 12 to August 4).

DSS 703: Science, Technology and Defense Policy (Rose, Taylor)

  1. Martin Van Creveld, “Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present.” The Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Toronto, 1991.
  2. Robert Gilpin, “American Scientists and Nuclear Weapons Policy.” Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1962.
  3. Max Boot, “War Made new: Weapons, Warriors and the Making of the Modern World.” Gotham Books, published by Penguin Group, 2006.
  4. Editor Thomas F. Lynch III, “Strategic Assessment 2020 into a new Era of Great Power Competition.” Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University; NDU Press, Washington, D.C., 2020. PDF available free online at https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Publications/Books/Strategic-Assessments-2020/.

DSS 708: Security Issues in Russia (Marlo)

No textbooks are required for this course.

DSS 710 – CRN 35935: International Terrorism & Security (Kiras)

  1. Hoffman, B. (2017) “Inside Terrorism.” (New York, NY, Columbia University Press) ISBN-13: 978-0231174770; ISBN-10: 0231174772.
  2. Hoffman, B. and Reinares, F. (2014). “The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat.” (New York, NY: Columbia University Press) ISBN-13: 978-0231168991.

DSS 710 – CRN 35913: International Terrorism and Security (Gibson)

  1. Horgan and Braddock, eds. “Terrorism Studies: A Reader”. Routledge. Edited By John G. Horgan, Kurt Braddock.
  2. Hoffman, B. (2017) “Inside Terrorism.” (New York, NY, Columbia University Press) ISBN-13: 978-0231174770; ISBN-10: 0231174772.

DSS 720: Internship/Professional Experience (Koch)

No textbooks are required for this course.

DSS 725: Instruments of State Power (Ford)

  1. Nicholas J. Cull, "The Cold War and the United States Information Agency." : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  2. "Information Operations: Warfare and the Hard Reality of Soft Power." Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 2004.
  3. David A. Baldwin, "Economic Statecraft." (new edition) (Princeton University Press, 2020).
  4. "The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence." Daniel W. Drezner, Henry Farrell, & Abraham L. Newman, eds. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2021).
  5. Juan C. Zarate, "Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare."  (New York: Public Affairs, 2013).
  6. Michael E. O’Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist." (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2023), chapters 5 & 6, pp. 239-325.
  7. Loch K. Johnson, "The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy."  (Oxford University Press, 2022).
  8. David Rothkopf, "Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power." (New York: Public Affairs, 2005).

DSS 726: China: The International Politics of China’s Rise (Anderson)

  1. Taylor Fravel, “Active Defense, China's Military Strategy since 1949.” Princeton University Press, 2019.
  2. Elbridge A. Colby, “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict.” Yale University Press, 2021

DSS 727: Chemical and Biological Warfare (Moodie)

No textbooks are required for this course.

DSS 730: Cyber Conflict/Security (Mazanec)

  1. Christopher Whyte and Brian Mazanec, “Understanding Cyber Warfare.” Routledge, 2nd Edition.  ISBN-13: 978-1032159317, ISBN-10: 1032159316
  1. Andrew Blum, “Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet.” Ecco; Reprint edition (May 28, 2013) ISBN-13: 978-0061994951.

DSS 740: Ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Kartchner)

  1. Sohail, Hashmi H., and Steven P. Lee eds., “Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives”. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  2. Vesselin Popovski, Gregory M. Reichberg and Nicholas Turner, eds., “World Religions and Norms of War: Conflict, Culture & Religions.” Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2009. Full text available free online at: http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:2544/ebrary9789280811636.pdf

DSS 794: Active in Research

No textbooks are required for this course.

DSS 796: Directed Reading Course

If books are required, they will be assigned by your course mentor or instructor.

DSS 797: Special Topics: Great Power Competition (McKinney)

  1. Paul Kennedy, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.” New York: Random House, 1987.
  2. Jonathan Kirshner, “An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics.” Princeton University Press, 2022.
  3. Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., “The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fate of Great Powers.” New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
  4. John H. Maurer and Erik Goldstein, eds., “The Road to Pearl Harbor: Great Power War in Asia and the Pacific.” Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022.

DSS 799: Thesis

If books are required, they will be assigned by your thesis mentor.

DSS 896 Doctoral Capstone Project

If books are required, they will be assigned by your project mentor.