Today's US Intelligence Community faces many controversial issues while trying to deal with the multiple global threats that face the US. In this class we will discuss, in depth, such issues as the role of Intelligence Community activities within the US; the appropriate level of legal constraints on intelligence activities; and the uses, and misuses, policymakers make of intelligence.

In addition to our full class activities, students will have multiple opportunities to work in small groups to discuss, and try to devise solutions for, those issues, as well as for some of the global threats facing the US and US interests today, such as the rise of China, Russian expansionism, and conflict in the Middle East. Students will also get hands-on practice discussing and analyzing current events, and preparing their analysis for presentation to US policymakers, including the President.

Prerequisites: INTSTDS 3700 OR Permission of department