International Security and Economic Policy (ISEP)

DRAFT: October 6, 2014

Maryland School of Public Policy

Spring 2015 Courses: A Working List

General: ISEP students are required to take PUAF 720, PUAF 781, PUAF 780, and PUAF 641 (macro), plus at least one ISEP elective. MPP students must also register for PUAF 790 in their final spring semester, and begin work on it in the preceding fall (see below).

ISEP REQUIRED COURSES:

PUAF 720: International Security Policy. (Gallagher/Steinbruner). 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/Kelleher) 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 and ISEP Faculty) 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. Specific focus on the scope of acquisition, including organizational structures, and acquisition processes and management. Uses defense cases.

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 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 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 699Y: Globalization and Trade (Schwab, with William Reinsch). Addresses contemporary debates surrounding globalization, with particular focus on development, trade and competitiveness. Particular emphasis on the issues faced by institutions — governments, the private sector, NGOs — and the leaders and policymakers across the world who address them.

PUAF 782: International Development Economics (tba): Examines key economic and policy issues for developing and transition economies.

PUAF 783: 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 784: 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.

WINTER TERM COURSES (those conducted overseas are starred(*):

PUAF688N:Development Diplomacy & Leadership (Kapur): Principles of foreign policy and international relations from a practitioner’s perspective. Analysis of cooperation, conflict, soft-power diplomacy, and sustainable development, particularly in South and South East Asia.

PUAF 689I: *Indonesia: Socio-Economic Systems, Environment, and Sustainable Development (Hilde)

PUAF 790: *India: Education and Project Engagement with Delhi’s NGOs (Grimm)

PUAF 798T: *Morocco: Political and Social Development (Afzal)

PUAF798T: *Peru: Sustainable Development, Environment, and Human Rights (Hilde)

FALL 2015 ISEP ELECTIVES: TENTATIVE:

PUAF 698N: Intelligence and National Security (Nolte)

PUAF 698Q: Democracy and Democratization (Crocker)

PUAF 700: US Trade: Policy and Politics (Destler)

PUAF 798D: U.S. Defense Policy and Planning (Rumbaugh)

PUAF 798M: Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Policy (Gallagher)