Tentative Class Schedule Fall 2008

Month  Monday  Wednesday  Friday
 
August
   27  Introduction  29  Traditional Security Definitions
September   1  Concept Expansion   3 War: Definitions and Trends   5  War: Alternative Causes

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  8  The American Experience  10 Nuclear Devices:  First Use & Physics  12 Nuclear Devices: Design
"  15  Nuclear Devices: Effects  17 Nuclear War: Can It Really Happen?  19 Nuclear War: Effects
"  22  US-USSR Nuclear Buildup  24 Delivery Systems  26  Space: The Final Frontier

Sept/Oct

 29 Missile Defense: A Solution?   1 Why Build All Those Weapons?   3  Strategic Doctrine, or Uses of Nucs
October    6 Strategic Doctrine, or Uses of Nucs   8  Arms Control: History  10  Arms Control: A Solution?
"  13 Fall Break  15 Exam  17 Post-Cold War Int'l Changes
"  20 Global Mega Trends  22 Alternative Views of the Future  24 Policy Needs: Interests, Threats, Responses

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 27 Terrorism  29 Cont'd  31 Discussion: Terrorism

November

  3  Iraq   5  Cont'd    7 Discussion: Iraq
"  10 WMD Proliferation  12 Cont'd  14 Discussion:  Proliferation -- Iran, North Korea
"  17 Failed States  19 Cont'd  21 Discussion:  Failed States
"  24 Cyber Terrorism/War  26 Thanksgiving  28 Thanksgiving
December   1 Non-violent: Climate Change   3  Non-violent: Energy    5 Discussion:  Energy/Global Warming

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  8 Conclusion Policy Paper Due  10 Study Day   Final is Friday December 12 at 2:30
 

 
Larry Aspin    aspin at bradley.edu
Department of Political Science
Bradley University