Welcome to Public
Policy
Roundtable. This class will meet on Thursdays at 9:30 am
at Tallwood. Here is a list of readings for the term. The readings are
either attached as a document or as an URL which can be “clicked” on
and will take you to a website with the document. |
●Sept. 23: What Is the
National Purpose?
Josef Joffe, “The Default Power,” Foreign Affairs (Sept.–Oct. 2009); (subscription required)
Harvey Sapolsky, et al., “Restraining Order,” World Affairs (Fall 2009);
President Barack Obama, West Point Commencement Address, May 22, 2010;
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, “Helping Others Defend Themselves,” Foreign Affairs (May–June 2010) (subscription required)
● Sept. 30: U.S. Power: Up or Down?
James Kurth, “Pillars of the Next American Century,” The American Interest (Nov.–Dec. 2009);
David Ignatius, “How Debt Imperils National Security,” The Washington Post, May 23, 2010.
● Oct. 7: The “Old World:” Loafers and Muslims?
Jacob Heilbrunn, “Teuton the Introvert,” The National Interest (Mar.–April 2010);
Gilles Kepel, “French Lessons in Londonistan,” ibid.;
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “Eating Vichyssoise in Athens,” The National Interest (May–June 2010);
Michael Gerson, “Europe’s Veiled Rage,” The Washington Post, May 26, 2010
● Oct. 14: The EU and NATO in Geriatrics?
Christopher Patten, “The Federalists Go to Brussels,” The National Interest (Nov.–Dec. 2009);
Christopher Patten, “What Is Europe to Do?” The New York Review of Books (Mar. 11, 2010); (subscription required)
David Ignatius, “Greece’s Debt Crisis Strains European Unity,” The Washington Post, May 2, 2010;
Anne Applebaum, “Time for Greece to Play by the E.U.’s Rules, The Washington Post, May 11, 2010;
● Oct. 21: Russia: Handling a Wounded Bear
Dmitri Trenin, “Russia Reborn,” Foreign Affairs (Nov.–Dec. 2009); (subscription required)
Anders Aslund, “The End Seems Near for the Putin Model,” The Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2010;
John Coffey, review of Janusz Bugajski, Dismantling the West: Russia’s Atlantic Agenda, American Diplomacy (April 26, 2010).
● Oct. 28: The Iranian Bomb: What Next?
James Lindsay and Ray Takeyh, “After Iran Gets the Bomb,” Foreign Affairs (Mar.–April 2010); (subscription required)
David Kay, “In the Tunnels of Natanz,” The National Interest (Mar.–April 2010).
● Nov. 4: A Nuclear-Free World?
President Barack Obama, speech on a nuclear-free world, Prague, Apr. 5, 2009;
George Schultz, et al., “World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 4, 2007;
Fred Ikle, “Nuclear Abolition: A Reverie,” The National Interest (Sept.–Oct. 2009);
Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, “The Nukes We Need,” Foreign Affairs (Nov.–Dec. 2009). (subscription required)
● Nov. 11: The Future of War: Cyberspace
Richard Clarke, “War From Cyberspace,” The National Interest (Nov.–Dec. 2009);
James Fallows, “Cyber Warriors,” The Atlantic Monthly (March 2010);
Mike McConnell, “How to Win the Cyber-War We’re Losing,” The Washington Post, Feb. 28, 2010.