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DRAFT: September 26, 2013
Maryland School of Public Policy
International Security and Economic Policy (ISEP)
Spring 2014 Courses: A Working List
General: ISEP students are required to take PUAF 720, PUAF 781, and PUAF 780, plus at least one ISEP elective. 48-credit students must also take PUAF 790 in their final year.
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PUAF 720: International Security Policy (Gallagher). Reviews the organizing concepts, substantive content, and institutional arrangement of contemporary international security policy. Assesses the balance of interests from a variety of national perspectives and presents some of the major unresolved issues. [Offered both terms]
PUAF 780: U.S. Foreign Policy Process (Destler) Surveys theories, institutions, and processes for making foreign policy on both economic and security issues. Examines the experiences of the Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush (the elder), Clinton, and Bush (the younger) administrations, and concludes with a look at current processes. [Offered both terms]
PUAF 781: International Economic Policy (Swagel). Examines current issues and institutions affecting international economic relations. Topics include theories of the international economy and trade, international monetary policy and exchange rates, international development, investment and finance, and broader macroeconomic interdependence and policy coordination. [Offered both terms]
PUAF 790: Project Course (Destler, Kelleher, and Siegel) Students complete an analytic report on a current public policy problem, and present their findings and conclusions to ISEP faculty and student colleagues. (Students may find outside organizations to sponsor their projects.) The Project Course is formally offered (and completed) in the spring term,but students choose their topics and conduct initial research during the fall semester and the January winterterm.
ISEP ELECTIVES(any IDEV course can also count as an ISEP elective).
PUAF 688C: Cyberspace: Legal and Policy Implications (Nolte)
PUAF 689F: Current Issues in Federal Acquisition (Gansler): The efficiency and effectiveness of government procurement of over $300 billion in goods and services for national defense.
PUAF 689V: Forecasting and Analyzing Political Violence (Jones): Examines the dynamics of political instability and political violence, reviewing complex and emergent phenomena. Explores the process of forecasting and risk analysis under constraints of information and time.
PUAF698C: Intelligence, Policy Making and Politics (Nolte): Addresses the roles of intelligence in national policy, and the establishment and evolution of government institutions and processes to play these roles, with special attention to recent reforms.
PUAF 698J: Food, Economics, and Health (Bhargava). This course covers issues of food, economics, population, and health from a multidisciplinary perspective.
PUAF 698O: Ethics, Development, and Foreign Aid (Crocker): Examines the conceptual and ethical dimensions of international development policies and U.S. foreign aid, including the character of development in poor countries/regions and alternative development strategies.
PUAF 698R: Development Challenges (tba): This introductory IDEV course reviews a set of country-level challenges, linking them where appropriate to regional and global issues.
PUAF 699D: Disease, Disaster, and Development (Sprinkle): Development — cultural, agricultural, industrial, social, economic, and political — will be evaluatedas a bringer of disease prevention and treatment andas a bringer of disease itself, from acute infections and poisonings to chronic conditions.
PUAF 699K: Civil Conflict (Steinbruner): Reviews the analytical literature on civil violence, episodes of intervention, and challenges associated with post-conflict reconstruction. Explores the logic that justifies intervention in some cases, and the requirements for effective stabilization and reconstruction.
PUAF 782: International Development Economics (tba): Examines key economic and policy issues for developing and transition economies.
Possible: PUAF 798Q: Ethics of War and Conflict (Levine)
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WINTER STUDY ABROAD COURSES:
PUAF 688I: Israel and Jordan: Global Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
PUAF 689I: Indonesia: Socio-Economic Systems, Environment, and Sustainable Development
PUAF 798T: Morocco: Human Rights, Security, Development: Public Leadership Perspective
Spring Break: Peru: Sustainable Development, Environment, and Human Rights
FALL 2013ISEP ELECTIVES: TENTATIVE:
PUAF 698N: Intelligence and National Security (Nolte)
PUAF 698Q: Democracy and Democratization (Crocker)
PUAF 699Y: Globalization of Trade, Development, and Competitiveness (Schwab, possibly Spring 2015 instead)
PUAF 700: US Trade: Policy and Politics (Destler)
PUAF 798D: U.S. Defense Policy and Planning (Rumbaugh, possibly Spring 2015 instead)
PUAF 798M: Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Policy (Gallagher)