REFERENCE MATERIALS

Teaching about Intelligence-Related Areas

 

Topics included here:

1. Cryptography

2. National and International Security

3. Peace Studies

4. A Syllabus for a National Security Course

1. Cryptography

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."

2. National and International Security

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."

3. Peace Studies

Klare, Michael T. Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide. 6th ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994.

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