PA587

033787

This course is intended to familiarize students with the basic purposes and nature of US covert action and to help them understand its historical development. More fundamentally, the course will seek to illustrate both covert actions' potential utility and its inherent limitations and challenges; challenges that in some respects have intensified with the rise of non-state actors, the information revolution, and other aspects of the post-Cold War environment. Finally, the course will draw implications for the role of covert action against current national security challenges, especially global terror networks. Graduate-level requirements include a 15-page research paper examing a particular challenge facing covert action. In-class participation accounts for 15 percent of the grade.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate

PA487