This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Lecture Notes

Lec # Topics
1 Introduction to National Security Policy (PDF)
2 Terrorism (PDF)
3 The Realist Model (PDF)
4 Beyond the Realist Model (PDF)
5 The President and Congress (PDF)
6 The National Security Bureaucracy (PDF)
7 Interest Groups, the Media, and the Public (PDF)
8 1945-1949 (PDF)
9 1950-1952 (PDF)
10 1952-1959 (PDF)
11 1960-1964 (PDF - 1.1 MB)
12 1964-1969 (PDF)
13 1969-1974 (PDF - 1.1 MB)
14 1974-1980 (PDF - 1 MB)
15 1980-1988 (PDF - 1 MB)
16 1989-1992 (PDF)
17 1993-2000 (PDF)
18 2000- ? (PDF)
19 Nuclear Weapons (PDF)
20 National Security Future (PDF)