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CONCENTRATION: International Security Policy (ISP) : Equirements
CONCENTRATION: International Security Policy (ISP) : Equirements
International Security Policy (ISP)
SIGNATURE DATE
REQUIREMENTS: The International Security Policy Concentration (ISP) requires 15 points, consisting of 5 three‐point courses: 1 core course; 1 from
General Problems in International Security and Conflict Management; 1 Use of Force; 2 electives (preferably including a course on security issues in
a particular country or region)
ISP REQUIREMENTS ‐ 5 courses (15 credits):
Course Number Course Title Term Year Credits
1 War, Peace, and Strategy Fall 3
INAF U6871
2 A course from General Problems in International Security and Conflict Fall/Spring 3
____________
Management
3 A course from Use of Force Fall/Spring 3
____________
4 ____________ Fall/Spring 3
& Any two elective courses from the electives list or from group A or B
5 ____________ Fall/Spring 3
Subtotal
Note: ISP concentration courses cannot be audited or taken pass/fail.
General Problems in International Security and Conflict Management (Group A)
INAF U4545 Contemporary Diplomacy
INAF U6383 Dynamics of Cyber Power and Conflict
INAF U6389 State Formation, Violence, and Intervention in the Modern World
INAF U6416 Third World Security Issues
INAF U6440 Peace Operations in Fragile States
INAF U8132 Intelligence & Special Operations
INAF U8142 Intelligence & Foreign Policy
INAF U8818 Topics in International Ethics
POLS GR6801 Theories of International Relations
POLS G8844 Nationalism
POLS G8863 Conflict and Cooperation in World Politics
POLS GR8866 International Signaling and Communication
LAW L9377 Enforcing International Law
Use of Force (Group B)
INAF U6228 Cybersecurity
INAF U6285 Methods for Defense Analysis and Assessment
INAF U6345 Analytic Techniques for Military Policy
INAF U6384 Cyberwar
INAF U6387 Terrorism & Counterterrorism
INAF U6388 Modern Urban Terrorism
INAF U6393 Evolving Military Strategy Post‐9/11
INAF U6398 Unconventional Warriors
INAF U6399 Weapons of Mass Destruction
INAF U6789 Special Operations, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency
INAF U6799 Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict
INAF U6805 Limited War & Low Intensity Conflict
INAF U6880 Planning U.S. Military Forces
INAF U8879 Technology and National Security
Concentration Director Approval:
* ONLY when submitting for graduation Date: ______________
Richard Betts (rkb14@columbia.edu) Updated: 8/21/2017
CONCENTRATION: International Security Policy (ISP)
Elective
HIST G8235 Expressions of Identities and Change in Muslim POLS G8205 History of East‐West Relations in Post‐WWII Europe
Eurasia POLS GR8807 Armed Groups and Political Violence
HIST GR8701 Islamic Movements/Middle East POLS G8811 Civil Wars
HIST G8712 The U.S., the Middle East, and the Cold War POLS G8823 Debates in International Peace Interventions
INAF U6161 African Institutions POLS G8833 Law of War
INAF U6209 E‐Government & Digital Diplomacy POLS G8843 International Law and International Relations
INAF U6221 Navigating by Starlight POLS G8844 Nationalism
INAF U6346 US Role in World Affairs I POLS G8853 Normative and Empirical Perspectives on
INAF U6347 US Role In World Affairs II International Law
INAF U6379 Privacy, Secrecy, and Surveillance POLS G8865 United States Foreign Policy
INAF U6382 Technology, National Security & the Citizen POLS GR8870 US Relations with East Asia
INAF U6386 Policy Dilemmas in Cybersecurity POLS G8876 US‐Japan Relations from WWII to Present
INAF U6388 Modern Urban Terrorism PUAF U6801 Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
INAF U6391 Conflict Resolution REGN U6658 United States ‐ Southeast Asia Relations
INAF U6396 Mediation of Armed Conflict REGN U6660 Security and International Politics of the Persian Gulf
INAF U6430 East Asian Security REGN U6725 Modern Afghanistan: History, Culture, Politics
INAF U6445 Talking with the Enemy REGN U6719 Middle East Conflicts and Global Security
INAF U6470 The Logic of the Weak State REGN U8588 Modern Iran: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic
INAF U6485 Law & Politics of Conflict Management and REGN U8750 Political Transitions in the Former Soviet Union
Intervention INAF U6551 Why We Fail: Lessons in Conflict Resolution and
INAF U6553 Advancing Human Protection Atrocity Prevention
INAF U6556 United Nations: Challenges and Alternatives REGN U8757 Ukrainian Foreign Policy
INAF U6564 Applied Peacebuilding: Fieldwork
INAF U6680 Geopolitics of Oil & Natural Gas
INAF U6727 Deconstructing Afghanistan
INAF U6784 The Practice of Economic Sanctions
INAF U6794 Ideas and American Foreign Policy
INAF U6796 War and Captivity
INAF U6798 Central Issues in American Foreign Policy
INAF U6802 International Law
INAF U6848 Threat Financing and Anti‐Money Laundering
INAF U6869 The Evolution of Civil War Mediation Strategy
INAF U6940 Analytic Thinking, Writing and Briefing
INAF U8136 US Foreign Policy‐Persian Gulf
INAF U8415 US‐Latin American Relations: WWII to Present
INAF U8488 Contemporary Russian Security Policy
INAF U8507 Security Council and Peacekeeping in Africa
INAF U8508 Inside the Security Council: Inequality at Work
INAF U8559 Building Peace After Conflict
INAF U8564 Culture and Foreign Policy: China, India
INAF U8565 European Security
INAF U8566 China's Security and the Peoples' Liberation Army
INAF U8876 Nuclear Proliferation Concepts for Non‐Scientists
INAF U8867 International Enforcement and the UN Security Council
INAF U8869 Civil Wars and Peace Settlements
INAF U8885 Conflict Assessment
INAF U8909 Environment, Conflict & Resolution Strategies
LAW L6410 Constitution and Foreign Affairs
LAW L6458 National Security Law
LAW L6549 Terror and Consent
LAW L8079 Latin American Law
LAW L8870 Geopolitics of Law and Conflict on the Korean
Peninsula
LAW L9001 United Nations Peacekeeping
ORLJ Y6040 Fundamentals of Cooperation, Conflict resolution
and Mediation in Different Institutional Contexts
POLS GU4405 Insurgencies and Conflicts in Southeast Asia
POLS GU4845 National Security Strategies of the Middle East: A
Comparative Perspective
POLS GU4871 Chinese Foreign Policy
Concentration Director Approval:
* ONLY when submitting for graduation Date: ______________
Richard Betts (rkb14@columbia.edu) Updated: 8/21/2017