National Security-Related Courses Recently Offered at Harvard University:
Harvard Law School
- National Security Law: Legal Frameworks and National Security Decision-Making — Juan Zarate
- National Security Law — James Baker
- National and International Security Law Workshop — Jack Goldsmith and Gabriella Blum
- Privacy, Technology, and National Security —Philip Heymann
- Prosecuting Transnational Criminal Organizations: Seminar — Philip Heymann
- Prosecution Policies and Strategy at the International Criminal Court — Alex Whiting
- The “War on Terror” Memoir (reading group) — Deborah Popowski
- The Promises and Challenges of Disarmament: Clinical Seminar — Bonnie Docherty
- Government Lawyer — Semester in Washington Clinic (ability to intern at federal agencies, including those doing national security-related work)
- Government Lawyer Clinic (ability to intern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, including in the Anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit)
- Controlling Cyberspace — Jonathan Zittrain
- Cybercrime — Phillip Malone
- International Cybersecurity: Public and Private Sector Challenges — Jack Goldsmith
Harvard Kennedy School
- Modern Diplomacy: Peace and War in the 21st Century — R. Nicholas Burns
- Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press — Graham Allison and David Sanger
- Controlling Weapons Proliferation — Matthew Bunn and William Tobey
- Technology, Security, and Conflict in the Cyber Age — James Waldo
- The U.S. Homeland Security Enterprise — Juliette Kayyem
- The Origins of Modern Wars — Stephen Martin Walt
- Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press — Graham T. Allison, Jr., and David Sanger
Harvard College (includes cross-listed graduate courses)
- International Conflict and Cooperation — Dustin Tingley
- The Military Instrument of Foreign Policy — Aurel Braun
- Law and Theory After 9/11 — Cheryl Brown Welch
- Security and Development Interventions in Fragile States — Cheryl Brown Welch
- Rationalist Sources of International Conflict and War — Muhammet Ali Bas
- Cycles of War and Peace — Shawn Ling Ramirez
- Future of War — Stephen P. Rosen
- War and Politics — Stephen P. Rosen
- The Economics of National Security Seminar — Martin Feldstein
- Globalization and U.S. National Security — Joan Johnson-Freese
- Nuclear Weapons and International Security — Thomas M. Nichols
- From September 11th to the War on Terror: Terrorism and counterterrorism in sociological perspective — Lisa Stampnitzky
- The Laws of War and the War on Terrorism — Gregg Andrew Peeples
Harvard Extension School
- Comparative National Security Strategies of Middle Eastern Countries — Charles Freilich
- The Future of War: Conflict and Order in the Twenty-first Century — Thomas M. Nichols
This information is current as of February 2013.
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