Holden, Joshua. "A Comparison of Cryptography Courses." Cryptologia 28, no. 2 (Apr. 2004): 97-111.
1. Cryptography
2. National and International Security
3. Peace Studies
Holden, Joshua. "A Comparison of Cryptography Courses." Cryptologia 28, no. 2 (Apr. 2004): 97-111.
The author compares two courses on cryptography, which he taught at Duke University and at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The former was aimed at non-mathematics majors and the latter at mathematics and computer science majors.
Rubin, Aviel D. "An
Experience Teaching a Graduate Course in Cryptography." Cryptologia
21, no. 2 (Apr. 1997): 97-109.
The author describes his experience teaching "Cryptography and Computer Security" at New York University in the 1995 Fall Term. The article includes a useful list of courses in cryptography offered at institutions of higher learning in the United States and elsewhere.
Stinson, Douglas R. Cryptography: Theory and Practice. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1995. 3d ed. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006.
This is a standard textbook for courses in cryptography. Writing about the third edition, Kruh, Cryptologia 30.2 (Apr. 2006), says that "this authoritative text continues to provide a solid foundation for future breakthroughs."
Clark, J. Ransom. "Report: Post-Cold War International Security Issues." In The North American
Nation Project: Year One, 1993-94--Final Reports. Bethany, WV: East
Central Colleges, [1995].
The focus here is on developing and running a course on post-Cold War international security issues, with particular attention to Mexico and Central America.
Kolodziej, Edward A. Security and International Relations. Themes in International Relations Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Wallace, IN&S 23.2 (Apr. 2008), sees this as "a credible attempt to ... provide an introduction for graduate students to security studies as a subfield of international relations.... This book ... is well-organized but focused at the graduate level and assumes readers are well grounded in both political science and international relations."
Mangold, Peter. National
Security and International Relations. London & New York: Routledge,
1990.
Fry, I&NS 7.2, concludes that "there is a contribution of significance here to the debate on both the future of security studies and the shape of any new world order."
Nye, Joseph S., Jr.,
and Sean M. Lynn-Jones. "International Security Studies." International
Security 12, no. 4 (Spring 1988): 5-27.
Shultz, Richard, Roy
Godson, and
1. Ted Greenwood, eds. Security Studies for the 1990s. Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), 1993.
Individual chapters review a major security studies course, propose needed changes, and present a model syllabus.
"The course entitled 'Introduction to International Security' is a model for those institutions that can offer no more than one course in the field.... [T]he book presents a richly interdisciplinary exposure to the topics, approaches, literature, and teaching techniques across an array of courses from a broad curriculum in international security studies." Robert H. Dorff, "A Commentary on Security Studies for the 1990s as a Model Curriculum Core," International Studies Notes 19, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 23-31:
2. George Quester, eds. Security Studies for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), 1997.
The update to Security Studies for the 1990s (1993).
Terriff, Terry, et
al. Security Studies Today. New York: Polity, 1999.
Nelson, Choice, Sep. 2000, finds that the authors of this "straightforward, useful book ... deftly identif[y] key arguments and assumptions" in the field of security studies.... On the whole, this is a balanced and worthy introductory text."
Watson, Bruce W. Military
Intelligence at the Universities: A Study of an Ambivalent Relationship.
Boulder, CO: Westview, 1984.
Wilcox: "Courses, research."
Klare, Michael T. Peace
and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide. 6th ed. Boulder, CO:
Lynne Rienner, 1994.
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