Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press

Harvard HKS

From the rise of China and resurgence of Russia, to the ongoing war in Ukraine, and North Korea and Iran’s advancing nuclear weapons programs, challenges in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Africa, and emergence of cyber conflict, this course examines the central challenges to American national security. Through a series of cases, students address these issues as if they were professionals at the National Security Council working for the President or an assistant to the Secretary of State…