Required Courses (EMIR-ONLY)
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As the crisis in Ukraine makes clear, some national security challenges require the adept use of the tools of economic statecraft. This course examines the mechanisms, operations, and outcomes of these economic tools. The course focuses on tools designed to coerce change and those offered as incentives and positive inducements. Case studies may also address trade barriers and preferences, financial sanctions, export controls and investment restrictions, foreign lending, and development aid.
PAI 700 | Global Energy and Climate Geopolitics (3 credit January seminar) | William HedermanUnderstanding international relations requires an appreciation for the international dynamics
The challenges of energy and
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climate are among the most important facing global leaders today. This course
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helps the participants build the capabilities to help address these challenges. The course has three objectives: building a solid foundation of understanding energy's expanding role in current international relations (security, decarbonization and trade), explaining how energy and environment policies interact, and building capabilities to advise senior policymakers on energy and sustainability issues. The course includes extensive readings from contemporaneous news sources and major relevant books, presentations by outside and CSIS experts, and student presentations to the class.
The first half of the course covers technical and financial fundamentals of energy, including electricity, renewables, fossil fuels, nuclear, and efficiency. We will examine both technology and market options. The second half presents continent-by-continent reviews of energy challenges and opportunities across the globe, with special attention to new global power competition and to energy and environmental justice issues related to energy security and the energy transition to low carbon emissions for a sustainable future.
PAI 700 | Global Supply Chains for Sustainability: Implications for Corporations, National Security and the Environment (3 credit January seminar) | Jay Golden
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PAI 715 | The Emerging Challenge of Disruptive Technologies| Andrew Whiskeyman
This course will examine how disruptive technology may impact a nation’s approach toward its use of diplomacy, information, military, and economic power to advance national objectives. Students will investigate key concepts and impediments to the adoption of technology by organizations and individuals, make educated predictions regarding the role technology could play in competition in the international arena, and assess ethical factors involved in the use of technology, both old and new.
PAI 715: Congress and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy | David McKean and David Wade
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