GPPS 443U.S. National Security and Decision Making

4 units · GPPS · UC San Diego

The course provides a practitioner’s perspective on the methodologies of and influences on decision making in the US national security apparatus. It provides the skills for analyzing the interactions among the executive, legislative, interagency stakeholders, the media, intelligence community, and the military and its supporting industrial complex. We will look at decisional influences and biases that led to key national security decisions, beginning with the 1947 National Security Act. Students may not earn credit for both GPPS 443 and GPGN 490 with the same title.