INAF U6221y Navigating by Starlight - the Challenges of Conflict Resolution 3 pts. What brings adversaries to the negotiating table? Who can actually end a conflict? How important are mediation tactics to resolving a conflict? Has international advocacy changed the way conflict resolution is approached? This course will develop students understanding of key aspects of international conflict resolution by examining these and other fundamental questions, through discussion of different case studies. Conflicts in Algeria, Angola, Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan will be among those discussed. Students will draw generic lessons or observations from each case while also developing an appreciation for the unique nature of different conflicts. Supplementary case studies will also be integrated through lecture and targeted readings. Priority for this course will be given to second-year students. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR.

INAF U6228x Cybersecurity 3 pts.Cybersecurity explores the evolution of cyberspace and its impact on national security, the commercial environment and individuals. It demonstratesthe range of military, intelligence, commercial, social and legal issues that have emerged in this area of growing importance. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6285x Methods for Defense Analysis and Assessment 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course is intended to provide students with the tools and knowledge required to assess modern military forces. It covers strategic nuclear forces, as well as conventional air, sea, and land forces. It addresses the technical capabilities of modern military forces, the command, control, communication (C3) and logistics infrastructure that support them, and some of the organizational/political factors that can affect force employment. It will also provide an overview of some defense analysis applications of commercial software such as Google Earth. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6345y Analytic Techniques for Military Policy 3 pts. The course is designed to teach you the skills you will need to handle the responsibilities of an entry-level defense analyst in the government or in an outside think tank. The course should give you the underlying intellectual foundations needed to learn more rapidly from your experience once you enter the field, and thus to graduate more quickly to positions of greater responsibility and influence within the field. The course is designed to equip you to be a force for positive change in the profession to position you to make a difference not just on the substance of the decisions you analyze, but on the way the community does its analyses. SIPA: APEA. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6346x US Role in World Affairs I 3 pts. Prerequisites: Restricted to International Fellows This course will explore the international role of the United States by examining its evolution over time the interests and concepts that underlie it, the domestic debates that have shaped it, the historical turning points that periodically re-shaped it, and some of its most notable successes and failures SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6347y U S Role In World Affairs 3 pts. Instructor Permission Required This course will explore the international role of the United States by examining its evolution over time the interests and concepts that underlie it, the domestic debates that have shaped it, the historical turning points that periodically re-shaped it, and some of its most notable successes and failures. Only students who are currently registered in INAF U6346 will be allowed to register for INAF U6347, unless otherwise indicated by Prof. Sestanovich. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6378y The Evolution of Terrorism Not offered in 2012-2013. This course examines the strategy and organization of terrorist groups, the psychology of terrorists, and the peculiar modern threat posed by al-Qaeda and related organizations. The class utilizes academic assessments of terrorism to introduce key concepts but relies as well on primary sources for exploring al-Qaeda's development, strategy, and evolution. Among the questions this course examines are: What is terrorism and how does it differ from insurgency and guerilla warfare? How have terrorist strategies and tactics changed over time? How effective is terrorism and why do terrorist groups succeed and fail? How can terrorism best be fought? What are the similarities and differences between the al-Qaeda phenomenon and historical terrorist movements? What are the internal strategic challenges facing al-Qaeda and associated groups? How should governments organize to counter the threat from al-Qaeda and associated groups, especially in an era of limited resources? What is al-Qaeda's lasting impact on the phenomenon of terrorism likely to be? SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6387y Terrorism & Counterterrorism 3 pts. This course examines the origins and evolution of modern terrorism, challenges posed by terrorist groups to states and to the international system, and strategies employed to confront and combat terrorism. We assess a wide variety of terrorist organizations, and explore the psychological, socioeconomic, political, and religious causes of terrorist violence past and present. We also analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various counterterrorism strategies, from the point of view of efficacy as well as ethics, and look into ways in which the new threat of global terrorism might impact the healthy functioning of democratic states. The course is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the terrorist threat, including the nature, roots, objectives, tactics, and organization of terrorism and terrorist groups. Part II addresses the issue of counterterrorism, including recent American efforts to combat terrorism, the strengths and weaknesses of counterterrorist tools and instruments, the issue of civil liberties and democratic values in confronting terrorism, and international strategies and tactics. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6388y Modern Urban Terrorism 3 pts. This course will focus on contemporary urban Islamist terrorism, as it is most relevant to New York City. The first part of this course will be more theoretical starting with a historical perspective, methodology on how to approach to problem, the importance of ideology and the evolution of this wave of terrorism, including the role of the Internet. In the second half of the course, several case studies relevant to New York City will be analyzed. Finally, the course will end with a discussion of disengagement from terrorism SIPA: ISP. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track.

INAF U6389x State Formation, Violence, and Intervention in the Modern World With a case study on Afghanistan, this seminar in international security policy will introduce students to several generations of literature on state formation and its relationship to violence and foreign intervention. We will explore the resilience and limitations of various theoretical approaches as they relate to a number of empirical cases. Students will become familiarized with a number of important arguments that have been advanced to explain state formation in its more recent incarnations in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and post-Communist Europe. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6393x Evolving Military Strategy Post-9/11 The World at Night: America's Evolving Military Strategy in an Asymmetrical Age. Drawing from the NASA composite photograph depicting where the world is, and is not, brightly lit at night, the seminar will explore how dynamic demographies, economies, technologies, ideologies, and requirements for natural resources are shaping a minor revolution in military thinking. Students will consider global trends and linkages to better understand the renewed importance of contextual understanding of regional populations, geography, religion and history as they relate directly to accomplishing military objectives in support of national policy. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6398y Unconventional Warriors In this course in international security policy, students will take a closer look at a host of non-state armed actors whose origins can be traced back to pre-statal politics and international relations but whose presence can be felt very tangibly in 21st century geopolitics. Violence has always been a principal currency of sociopolitical interaction. We tend to associate unconventional forms of war-making with the post-September 11th era of geopolitics; in fact, a number of unconventional warriors have wielded violence before and, then, alongside states for centuries. A great deal of today's attention, both scholarly and policy-oriented, tends to focus in particular on terrorists and insurgents; but a host of other non-state armed actors (from bandits, mercenaries, and mafia to druglords, warlords, and militias) also operate as what Vadim Volkov called ?entrepreneurs? in the field of violence. Their methods, motivations, and interests have evolved over time. Many of the factors that led to their emergence historically have ceased to exist, but these actors have adapted and transformed in ways that keep them relevant to this day. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6399y Weapons of Mass Destruction This course is intended to provide students an understanding of weapons of mass destruction, defined here principally as nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons along with missiles, which are their primary means of delivery. It will address the development and proliferation of these weapons from historical, technical, and policy dimensions, with relatively more emphasis on nuclear weapons. Specific topics include weapon effects, WMD strategy, WMD terrorism, and efforts to contain the spread of WMD. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6416x Third World Security Issues 3 pts. This course examines in depth how third world countries plan for their defense. It focusses on the security dilemmas facing Third World states and is designed to help students evaluate national security issues from the perspective of non-Western defense planners. During the term we will analyze the politico-military strategies of non-Western countries and the domestic, regional, and international factors that affect them. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6430x East Asian Security Issues and Topics 3 pts. This course addresses the major players, key issues and dominant trends in East Asian security. The course will examine the strategic milieu of East Asia, including strategic culture and strategic geography, the security priorities and posture of the major states that shape East Asian security, including the People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea, and Russia. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6440x Peace Operations in Fragile States 3 pts. This course will focus on peace operations and the stabilization of fragile states. It will assess the various tools used by the International community and the evolution in their use: the deployment of military forces, transitional authorities, multidimensional operations, security sector reform, rule of law and transitional justice, support to political processes. It will conclude with an examination of the evolving broader political context and the growing challenge it poses to effective stabilization strategies: an increasingly divided international community, limited consent of host countries, obstacles to effective reform of the United Nations. The course will be entirely based on case studies drawn from operations of the last 20 years. Assignments and classroom discussion are designed to prepare students for professional work in developing or implementing stabilization strategies in fragile states. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR.

INAF U6445y Talking with the Enemy 3 pts. Through a detailed investigation of eight significant case studies, this course will take a close look at past efforts of the United States to manage relations with "enemies" or adversaries. The course will examine the different strategies Presidents have used to "talk to the enemy": Roosevelt's 1933 opening of relations with the USSR; the decision at Munich to "appease" Hitler, Nixon's opening to China; the long delayed efforts to cease the war in Vietnam: the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and the current debates over whether the US should talk directly with Iran and how best to deal with Cuba. The course will conclude with some examination of how the US might deal with groups in the new paradigm -- non-state actors such as Taliban, Hamas, and Hezbollah Several key themes will be interwoven throughout the course. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR.

INAF U6485y Law & Politics of Conflict Management and Intervention In this course in international security policy (this course can also count towards the ICR specialization), students will be asked to consider the ways in which politics and law inform, undermine, and bypass one another in the realm of conflict management and military intervention. We will draw from a rich set of cases across time and space (Afghanistan, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, post-war Germany, Iran, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Libya, Pakistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, and the former Yugoslavia) to examine the notion of ?threats to peace and security? as it has evolved. When do states feel comfortable using force and how do they justify themselves? How do the logics of foreign policy and international security run up against legal doctrine, and what do these interactions mean for the waging of modern war? What do empirical studies of one intervention after the next tell us about the degree to which the ends justify the means? SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR.

INAF U6556y United Nations: Challenges and Alternatives 3 pts. Does the United Nations matter? The course will offer a broad assessment and analysis of the place, performance and potential of the United Nations within the nation-state system. It will assess the world body based on a range of distinct expectations through the prism of global threats, global norms and global responsibilities. Increasingly the world is confronted with phenomena - related to both security and development - which require global responses; the question this course seeks to answer is to what extent can we rely on the UN to act as a global instrument for constructive change? The United Nations does not exist in isolation. It is shaped by the broad political context in which it operates. The course will first examine the changing nature of world politics and the new challenges it poses to the world organization in the 21st century, both the end of the Cold War and the impact of 9/11 having profoundly shaped the framework within which policy and action must take place. In particular the course will examine the emergence of new threats (the unprecedented role of non-state actors, the emergence of a single hyper-power and the reformulation of state sovereignty) which go beyond borders and the reach of individual states - no matter how powerful they may be - and which require a global response. Will the United Nations be up to the challenge? And, we must also ask, who exactly is the United Nations? SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR.

INAF U6561y Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Development 1.5 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. Course objectives are to to become acquainted with conflict environments and the broad range of actors and approaches, notably within the UN, involved in promoting development in crisis and post-conflict situations; To engage the students in the policy and programme elements of a development-oriented response to conflict and post-conflict and to introduce them to the research and policy development and programming methods of the United Nations or other international organisations; to introduce students to what it feels like to work with these issues daily, within the UN or other work environments, and to guide them through the complexities of the ogranisations' policy-setting and decision-making arrangements; to become familiar with the case studies, and through this, develop practical understanding of the issues and the tools available to the international community. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6564y Applied Peacebuilding: Fieldwork 3 pts. Instructor Permission Required This course exposes students to conceptual and practical skills needed to develop a "reflective practice" orientation to applied professional work in international peace building and conflict resolution. The class focuses on skills for designing, implementing, and evaluating conflict resolution interventions. During the semester, students co-design projects, creating specific objectives and activities in collaboration with a Project Supervisor in a pre-selected field-based partner institution. Students are encouraged to work in teams of 2-3 in the course. Students implement the project during the summer, taking into consideration changes on the ground, through internships under the guidance of their field-based Project Supervisors. Students return in the fall to deliver a report of their activities in the field reflecting on their experiences and presenting their findings to the SIPA community. The course supports students in developing critical practical skills and experiences in managing a conflict resolution project while exploring the professional field of applied conflict resolution. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR.

INAF U6568y Strategy and US Foreign Policy Not offered in 2012-2013. The single hardest task in foreign policy is formulating a strategy. It entails identifying problems and opportunities, prioritizing interests, deciding which objectives are achievable, understanding which instruments of power can be used, and sequencing moves to ensure that power is applied so that it can succeed. This course is designed to provide an appreciation of strategy making in general and specific contexts. Specifically, the course will examine the following issues and areas in detail: Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mexico, China, Iran, the European Union, and climate change. The seminar will proceed with intensive discussion, and students will be required to write three strategy papers. The emphasis is on current events, but successful students will take away a timeless set of skills: the analytical discipline necessary to confront any problem, from the battlefield to the boardroom. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6570y Challenging Sovereignty 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. The assumption that states maintain control over their sovereign affairs is still widely held in international relations theory and practice, yet in international politics today a variety of intergovernmental and private actors regularly violate state sovereignty. This course explores the many ways in which the traditional political, economic and security functions of states are being undermined and reconfigured by external actors including international organizations and private non-state actors. In some cases, states quite willingly choose to cede their sovereignty, whereas others have conditions and policies externally imposed upon on them. The course assesses the implications of these new sovereign influences for international policymakers. Regionally, we will focus on developments in the former Communist states of East Europe and the former Soviet Union, however the topics and concepts explored in the course are applicable to other areas and all students are welcomed. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6727x (Section 001) Deconstructing Afghanistan 3 pts. The past decade in Afghanistan provides a real-life encyclopedia on virtually every element of post-conflict peacebuilding and statebuilding. The objective of this course is to use the experience of Afghanistan's post-conflict transition as a means of studying transitions in general, and to use the specific episodes of Afghanistan's experience to compare with other transitions. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6798x Central Issues in American Foreign Policy 3 pts. This course examines the sources, substance, and enduring themes of American foreign policy. Part I reviews the rise of American power in world affairs from the 18th Century through the end of the Cold War. Part II provides an overview of the process and politics of American foreign policy making. Part III applies the theory and history of Part I, and the process of Part II, to examine a number of contemporary U.S. foreign policy issues and debates, including America's two wars with Iraq; America's responses to the threat of global terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and what role the U.S. should play in the world economy, global and regional institutions, and the developing world. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U6799x Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course is intended to provide an understanding of two of the major components of warfare and international security since World War II. The first is special operations, defined broadly as military operations whose high risk and potential high pay-off require forces with extraordinary capabilities. The second is low-intensity conflict, defined broadly as conflict conducted by or against organizations other than conventional or nuclear forces. This includes terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, support to law enforcement against criminal organizations, and certain types of paramilitary operations. The two are grouped together in this course both because of their inherent relationship and because the U.S. government organizes itself in this way, having an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC). The focus of the course is largely but not exclusively on U.S. special operations and low-intensity conflict. There are three principal reasons for this. First, the U.S. special operations community is larger than many countries' entire military establishment and as of 2009 it is roughly one third the size of the entire British Army. This quantity thus has a quality all its own. Second, the United States has since World War II been heavily involved in low-intensity conflict around the globe and this involvement has only intensified since 2001. Third, the instructor's personal experience and knowledge of the subject are, for idiosyncratic reasons, mostly with U.S. special operations and low-intensity conflict. That said, both Russian/Soviet and British special operations and low intensity conflict are discussed in the course, and students are further encouraged to examine non-U.S. cases in course work if they are so inclined. The basic outline of the course is that the first half will provide students with a general understanding of both special operations and low-intensity conflict. The second half will then apply that understanding to six case studies. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6802y International Law 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course introduces students to the basic doctrines of public international law and considers their relationship to both international relations theory and a range of problems in current international politics. The aim of the course is to provide a framework to understand the normative dimensions of international relations. Students are asked to consider the theoretical arguments, processes and frameworks that provide the structure of international law, and to analyze their practical application to world issues of current concern. A problem-oriented approach to various case studies will be used in both lectures and discussion sessions, including situations in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Africa and Iraq. In this way, the course attempts to integrate method, substance, concepts and domestic application of the international legal system. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6805y Limited War & Low Intensity Conflict 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course is about two oxymora. To those caught in the crossfire, war is not limited and conflict is not low intensity. However, states must make policies and part of making policy is defining terms, establishing categories, and setting parameters. Scholars who study war in its many forms do the same. In general, limited wars are those somehow limited in scope, aims, and/or means. Low intensity conflict is often the term applied to those actions of violence beyond diplomacy that fall short of total war. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U6880x (Section 001) Planning U.S. Military 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course is a seminar in analytic approaches used in formulating national security strategy and in defense planning. The objective is to acquaint students with methods used by national security decision makers to evaluate options and formulate defense policy and plans. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U8132y Understanding Intelligence Operations 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course is intended to provide an understanding of the major components of intelligence operations. These include human intelligence collection, signals intelligence collection, counterintelligence and interrogation, overhead reconnaissance, paramilitary operations, covert action, and intelligence analysis. The focus of the course is largely but not exclusively on U.S. intelligence. There are three principal reasons for this. First, the U.S. intelligence community is vast, employing about 200,000 people at a cost of more than $70 billion annually in 2009 according to statements by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence. This quantity thus has a quality all its own. Second, the instructor possesses personal experience and knowledge of the subject, for idiosyncratic reasons, mostly involve the United States. Third, more information is publicly available about the U.S. intelligence community than any other. However, some non-U.S. intelligence collection and analysis are discussed in the course and students are encouraged to examine non-U.S. cases in the course paper if they are so inclined. SIPA: ISP.

INAF U8136x or y US Foreign Policy-Persian Gulf 3 pts. This course will focus on the process by which U.S. foreign policy is formulated and executed, using the Persian Gulf region as case material. Readings and lectures will examine the relationship between U.S. government agencies (White House, State, Defense, CIA, Congress, etc.) and instrumentalities (declaratory policy, diplomacy, military presence, arms transfers, covert action, etc.) in the pursuit of national goals. Special attention will be devoted to the analysis of U.S. regional policy and international relations from the Iranian revolution through the two gulf wars to the present. Instructor permission is required to register for this course. Please go to: http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/sipa_registration/instructions.html for instructions. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Middle East. SIPA: United States.

INAF U8142y Intelligence & Foreign Policy 3 pts. This course emphasizes the development of intelligence systems and assesses the ways in which they help or hinder international actors in achieving policy objectives. The course goal is to provide answers to three questions: "What is intelligence?"; "How does it work?"; and, "What difference does it make?" By investigating intelligence, students will develop their analytical skills and increase their understanding of the workings of foreign and security policies. Topics include the intelligence process, analysis and use in policymaking, Cold War and post-Cold War agendas, and ethics. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: United States.

INAF U8507x The Security Council and Peacekeeping in Africa in the 21st Century 3 pts. Instructor Permission Required This course will focus on the role of the Security Council (SC) as a decision making body in the establishment and conduct of peace keeping operations in Africa in the post cold war period. It will examine the multiple factors, which come into play in the authorization of peace keeping operations by the SC. It will provide an understanding of the political dynamics and practical diplomacy of the international system as it applies to Africa. The course will analyze the current political context, in which conflicts in Africa are bound to happen in the future. It will examine the reorientation of the UN's attention towards issues like terrorism, Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan and WMD. Will Africa be the poor parent and remain outside the intervention zone? Instructor permission is required to register for this course. Please go to: http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/sipa_registration/instructions.html for instructions. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: Africa. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U8565x European Security 3 pts. This course surveys historical and current case studies in the context of theoretical debates about the sources of security and insecurity and war and peace. The aim is to establish a foundation for analyzing the prospects for a secure order in Europe in the first part of the 21st century. The emphasis is on problems concerning strategic calculations, military strategy and war as well as political processes and institutional dynamics. Separate sections in the second half of the term are devoted to selected current policy challenges, such as transatlantic rifts, identity issues and ethnonational conflict, transitions in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, NATO and EU enlargements, and European foreign and defense initiatives. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: Europe. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Russia.

INAF U8738y Peacemaking/Peacekeeping 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. The course will explore the major conceptual and operational transitions which have occurred in the character and responsibilities of UN Peacekeeping over the past 16 years. United Nations Peace Operations have evolved significantly since the end of the Cold War. In 2006 over 90,000 peacekeepers were deployed in 16 missions mostly in Africa and the Middle East. The UN Summit of world leaders in December 2005 adopted the concept of The Responsibility to Protect - a new global norm placing human rights over traditional concepts of sovereignty. Yet the humanitarian and political crisis in Darfur underscores the profound gap between principle and implementation. The Summit also established the UN Peacebuilding Commission reflecting a growing awareness that rebuilding collapsed states will require significant civilian as well as military engagement over a longer timeframe than heretofore envisaged for UN operations. There is also a new willingness to work in partnership with regional organizations. We will conclude the course by assessing the capacity and political will of UN member states to meet these challenges as well as to develop a strengthened response to the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea and the threat of international terrorism. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Middle East. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U8818y Topics in International Ethics 3 pts. The seminar begins with an examination of how moral philosophers have considered the problem of the ethics of policy choice. In the next part of the seminar we explore human rights and the role of ethics in international politics. We then focus on problems in contemporary international ethics, wars, massacres and terrorism; international intervention; and global economic justice. We conclude with a discussion of the debate between the proponents of cosmopolitan justice, on the one hand, and the defenders of national self-determination, on the other, over the conditions of world order. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U8879x Technology and National Security 3 pts.Technology and National Security explores the evolution of modern military and related intelligence technologies as well as their application to the current national security environment. Technologies of various kinds have been important to defense, intelligence, and diplomacythroughout history. They have shaped the way nations have approached foreign policy and military operations, and currently the U.S. continues to develop technologies that will enable it to deal with a range of new and emerging threats. SIPA: ISP.

PUAF U6801y Negotiation & Conflict Resolution 3 pts. There are two purposes to this course: 1. to develop your ability to negotiate in a purposeful, principled and effective way; and 2. to teach you how to build consensus and broker wise agreements with others. Negotiation is a social skill, and like all social skills you have to practice it if you want to get better at it. To give you the chance to practice, we'll do a number of simulated negotiations in and out of class. We'll also use lectures, case studies, exercises, games, videos, and demonstrations to help you develop your understanding. As we advance in the course, our focus will shift from simple one-on-one negotiations to more complex ones involving many parties, agents, coalitions, and organizations. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Management. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: UN Studies.

REGN U4690x (Section 001) Palestinian and Israeli Security Dilemmas Competing Palestinian and Israeli national aspirations have generated security dilemmas for each, with broad regional reverberations. The partition formula which failed to heal the conflicts of the Palestine mandate era still dominates the discourse on conflict resolution, but domestic and regional opponents stymie its implementation. This course examines the evolution of Palestinian resistance, Israeli foreign policy debates, Egypt's early leadership in war and peacemaking, Iran's rising influence, and the credibility of mediatory efforts by the US and other third parties. We will consider whether the international community can help remedy the absence of human security in the West Bank and Gaza and ongoing Israeli security dilemmas by facilitating realization of a two-state solution. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Middle East. SIPA: ICR.

REGN U6120y Crime, Corruption and Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Not offered in 2012-2013. Organized crime and corruption represent one of the central challenges facing all governments in transition from the planned to the market economy. Over two decades after the fall of Communism, they still form a considerable barrier to economic growth and the consolidation of democratic institutions. Dramatic real-life narrative will enhance the solid theoretical foundations of the course. SIPA: East Central Europe. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Russia. SIPA: Short Courses.

REGN U8595x Persian Gulf in the 20th Century 3 pts. Focus on maritime society in the Gulf, the Gulf and its oil states, tribes and state formation, British paramountcy, border problems, oil and social change, the Iranian Revolution, Islamic resurgence in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf wars, Iraq, the role of women, and the Gulf states today SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Middle East.

SIPA U0010x and y (Section 8) Concentration: International Security Policy All SIPA candidates are required to register for one of the policy concentrations in each semester of matriculation at SIPA. Theconcentration registration will be for zero academic credits and will not affect or be affected by fees or financial charges.

SIPA: ISP.

SOSC P8793x Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response 3 pts. This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.

For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6458 National Security Law 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6945 Terror and Consent. 3 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8079x Jurisprudence of War 3 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8880x Law of Government Secrecy 2 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8882y Use of Force in the International System 2 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

LAW L8890 National Security Investigations and Prosecutions. 2 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8997y Civil Liberties & the Response to Terrorism 2 pts.

This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

LAW L9377y Enforcing International Law 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search