Grand Strategy, Strategic Planning, and Intelligence
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | WSM.CSMIR-EL-4 |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: | (brak danych) / (brak danych) |
Nazwa przedmiotu: | Grand Strategy, Strategic Planning, and Intelligence |
Jednostka: | Centrum Studiów Międzynarodowych i Rozwoju |
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Punkty ECTS i inne: |
3.00
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Zajęcia w cyklu "Semestr letni 2023/2024" (w trakcie)
Okres: | 2024-02-26 - 2024-06-16 |
Przejdź do planu
PN WT ŚR CZ PT WYK-KON
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Typ zajęć: |
Wykład z elementami konwersatorium, 20 godzin, 15 miejsc
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Koordynatorzy: | Arabinda Acharya | |
Prowadzący grup: | Arabinda Acharya | |
Lista studentów: | (nie masz dostępu) | |
Zaliczenie: | Przedmiot - Zaliczenie na ocenę | |
Efekty kształcenia: | (tylko po angielsku) Knowledge: • Think strategically and critically about all types of wars and strategic actors; • Understand the political nature of war and the relationship between strategy and politics; • Differentiate between the strategic, operational and tactical levels of war and understand their interrelationship in warfare; • Think about problems that are complex, ambiguous and without obvious solution; • Comprehend some of the foundational theories of strategy. Skills • Review conceptual issues associated with the role of intelligence in strategic planning • Discuss the diplomacy, information, military, and economics (DIME) tools of national power, the place intelligence has in the formulation of policy, and where intelligence has successfully contributed and failed to contribute to national strategy. • Evaluate the differences between intelligence assessment/strategic analysis and policy advice, and application in a government setting. Social competences • Appraise collected data and information using a variety of analytic techniques and methodologies • Apply critical thinking skills to real-world issues |
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Forma i warunki zaliczenia: | (tylko po angielsku) Group Presentation - 30% Graded Assessment,Paper/ Memo - 40% Class Reading, Presentation/Notes - 20% Class Participatin - 10% |
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Metody dydaktyczne: | (tylko po angielsku) The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to strategy that provides students with a conceptual frame of reference to analyze complex strategic problems in society Each session includes a face-to-face lecture, a facilitated discussion, and in-class learning activities, such as case studies, exercises, or an intelligence scenario |
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Bilans punktów ECTS: | (tylko po angielsku) Participation in classes – 20 h Study of books and other resources, preparation for classes, assignments – 40 h Preparation for a graded assessment – 30 h Total – 90 h (3 ECTS) |
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Skrócony opis: |
(tylko po angielsku) The theory and practice of grand strategy and how intelligence informs the process of forming and executing it are examined. Begins with a historical view of grand strategy from the post-Napoleonic War period, the course then covers Interwar and Cold War grand strategy, post-Cold War grand strategy, and grand strategy today. |
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Pełny opis: |
(tylko po angielsku) 1. The Politics of Grand Strategy Reading: • Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow, “Grand National Strategy” Chapter 3 in Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems, (Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 2006), 31-52. • Colin S. Gray, “The Dimensions of Strategy,” Chapter 1 in Modern Strategy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 16-47 • Foster, Gregory D. Foster, “A Conceptual Foundation for a Theory of Strategy”, The Washington Quarterly, 13: 1, (1990), 43-59 2. The Logic of Strategy Reading: • Harry R. Yarger, “A Theory Stated: Strategy’s Logic,” Chapter 2 in Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy, (Carlisle, PA; Strategic Studies Institute, 2006), 5-16. • Arthur F. Lykke, “Toward an Understanding of Military Strategy” in Joseph R. Cerami and James F. Holcomb, (eds), US Army War College Guide To Strategy, (Carlisle, PA; Strategic Studies Institute, 1991), 179-185. • Michael G. Roskin, National Interest: From Abstraction to Strategy, (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 1994). 3. Instruments of National Power Reading: • Gregory F. Treverton, and Seth G. Jones, “Measuring State Power” Chapter 2 in Measuring National Power, (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2005), 3-7. • David Jablonsky, “National Power” in Joseph R. Cerami and James F.Holcomb, (eds), US Army War College Guide To Strategy, (Carlisle, PA; Strategic Studies Institute, 1991), 87-106. • Richard J. Josten, “Strategic Communication: Key Enabler for Elements of National Power,” Joint Information Operations Center IO Sphere, summer (2006), 16-20. 4. Strategic Theory -1 Reading: • Carl Von Clausewitz, “Book Three: On Strategy in General,” in On War, trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2007), 133-156. • Thomas Waldman, “Politics and War: Clausewitz’s Paradoxical Equation,” Parameters, autumn (2010), 1-13. • Thomas A. Drohan, “Bringing ‘Nature of War’ into Irregular Warfare Strategy: Contemporary Applications of Clausewitz’s Trinity,” Defence Studies, 11:3 (2011), 497-516 5. Strategic Theory - 2 Reading: • Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow, “The Political Environment of Grand Strategy” Chapter 4 in Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems, (Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 2006), 53-75. • Harry R. Yarger, “The Strategic Environment,” Chapter 3 in Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy, (Carlisle, PA; Strategic Studies Institute, 2006), 17-29. • Brynjar Lia, Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus’ab al-Suri (London: Hurst & Company, 2008), • ,Abu Bakr Naji, Management of Savagery, Translated by William McCants, May 2006 • Carmine Cicalese, “Redefining Information Operations,” Joint Forces Quarterly, 69(2), 2013: pp. 109-112 6. The Utility of Force Reading: • Bart Schuurman, “Clausewitz and the “New Wars” Scholars,” Parameters, summer, (2010), 89-100. • Colin M. Fleming, “New or Old Wars? Debating a Clausewitzian Future,” Journal of Strategic Studies, 32: 2 (2009), 213-241. • Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow, “Asymmetric Warfare Dilemmas” Chapter 13 in Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems, (Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 2006), 231-248 7. Warfare and Violence in a Changing World Reading: • Colin S. Gray, “Why Strategy is Difficult,” Joint Forces Quarterly, 7:1 (1999), 80-86. • Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow, “Fog, Friction, Chance, Money, Politics, and Gadgets” Chapter 10 in Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems, (Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 2006), 191-203. • Harry R. Yarger, “Theory in the Real World,” Chapter 5 in Strategic Theory • for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy, (Carlisle, PA; Strategic Studies Institute, 2006), 31-64. • |
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Literatura: |
(tylko po angielsku) Obligatory reading: • Peter Paret et al., Makers of Modern Strategy, (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1989). • Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History, (Oxford University Press, 2013). Recommended reading: • Clausewitz, Carl von, On War, Michael Howard and Peter Paret, eds. and trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976). • Sun Tzu. The Art of War, translated by Thomas Cleary (Boston: Shambhala). • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Martin Hammond. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Supplementary reading: • E.H. Carr, The Twenty Year’s Crisis, (New York: Perennial, 2001), pp. 109-145 • Richard K. Betts, “Is Strategy an Illusion?” International Security 25, no. 2 (Fall 2000), pp. 5-50 • Paul Kennedy, “Grand Strategy in War and Peace: Toward a Broader Definition,” in Grand Strategies in War and Peace, ed. Paul Kennedy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp. 1-7. • Richard H. Yarger, “The Strategic Appraisal: The Key to Effective Strategy,” ed. J. Boone Bartholomees, Jr, The U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues Volume I: Theory of War and Strategy (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, (2012), pp. 53-66 |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie.