Course Syllabus
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Location: One Brattle Square, 201 Schedule:
Required Readings
Recommended Readings (especially if you did not complete GOVT E-1743)
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 There is one group presentation and one individual strategic options memo. Given the nature of the national security system, there are no deadline extensions or revision options. Attendance throughout all sessions is mandatory to received passing credit for the course.
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In this course students wrestle to develop a forward thinking, comprehensive cyber security strategy for the United States. Students are cast as key members of the national security community to discuss current cyber policy and evolving challenges associated with the digital frontier. Students will work individually and in groups to identify critical American interests under threat from a variety of state and non-state actors. They will consider top down and bottom up organizational approaches to developing effective policies aimed to secure national security interests, culminating with an original blueprint and plan of action for the best way forward over the next fifteen years. Open to undergraduate and graduate students, this class may prove interesting for individuals with interests in both government and the private sector. 2015 syllabus GOVT E-1743A Cyber Attack Meets Cyber Policy.docx
Learning Objectives: To enhance participants’ ability to: 1.) analyze trends in the cyber security environment; 2.) re-assess evolving national interests on the digital world; 3.) think strategically about cyber security; 4.) work collaboratively; 5.) communicate in oral and written presentations. Expectations: Attendance on campus in Cambridge, reading of all assigned materials in advance of the weekend, readiness to discuss contemporary national security topics. Students will conduct themselves as if they were working at the National Security Council. Assignments: by the end of the weekend, you will jointly present a future alternative for US cyber policy and you are required to submit one strategic options memo by 6 May. Just like the real-world, you will adhere to a set of formatting guidelines. Students are encouraged to discuss the case and ideas with fellow students, but must do individual write-ups based on their own analysis. In your write-up, you do not need to cite ideas that come from the assigned readings, but you must cite any outside sources used. Memos should be no more than 1800 words and follow SOPs from GOVT E-1743. |
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Derek Reveron is a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University where he co-teaches a course on contemporary national security challenges at the Kennedy School of Government. Additionally, he is a Professor of National Security Affairs and the EMC Informationist Chair (Links to an external site.) at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. He specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges, intelligence, and U.S. defense policy. He has authored or edited nine books. The latest are China and Cybersecurity ( co-edited by Oxford University Press, 2015), US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy (co-authored by Georgetown University Press, 2015), and Cyberspace and National Security (edited by Georgetown University Press, 2012). He serves on the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission. Dr. Reveron graduated from the College of Naval Command Staff through the College of Distance Education Fleet Seminar Program and completed the Maritime Staff Operators Course at the Naval War College. He received an MA in political science and a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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