Foundations of Strategy and Statecraft

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Fundamental texts dealing with war and diplomacy from ancient Greeks through the present; authors will include Thucydides, Sun-tzu, Ibn Khaldun, Plutarch, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Bacon, Rousseau, Hume, Bentham, Grotius, Vattel, Montesquieu, Smith, Kant, The Federalists, Tocqueville, Burke, Mill, Hegel, Nietzche, Clausewitz, Marx, Freud, Schmitt, Heidegger, and Rawls among others. Prerequisites: Graduate classification and approval of instructor.