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HKS211.2x:  Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press

Graham Allison, David E. Sanger, and Derek Reveron

Reading List: Conceptual Frameworks

Assigned: February 27, 2015

Due: March 6, 2015

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Required: 81p

• Allison, Graham and David Sanger. HarvardX videos.
• Allison, Graham. “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Rational Policy, Organizational Process, and Bureaucratic Politics” RAND, 1968, pp. 1-9; 17-25; 35; 56-59. (21p)
• National Security Strategy of the United States (29p)
• Report of the Commission on America’s National Interests (21p)
• Reveron, Derek S. and James L. Cook. “From National to Theater: Developing Strategy,” Joint Force Quarterly, July 2013. (6p)
• Reveron, Derek S. and Nikolas Gvosdev, “Incidental Superpower: America Will be Forced to Lead,” National Interest Online, 23 February, 2015. (2p)
• Sanger, David, “Obama Sees an Iran Deal that Could Avoid Congress,” New York Times, 24 October, 2014. (2p)

Recommended (not required): (49p)

• Allison, Graham. “How it Went Down: The Last Days of Osama bin Laden” TIME, 7 May, 2012. (3p)
• Eikenberry, Karl W., “Cables on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan,” New York Times, 5 January 2010. (4p)
• Entous, Adam, Janet Hook, and Carol Lee. “Inside White House, a Head-Spinning Reversal on Chemical Weapons” Wall Street Journal, 15 September, 2013 (2p)
• Kennedy, Paul. “Grand Strategies in War and Peace: Toward a Broader Definition,” in Paul Kennedy (ed.), Grand Strategies in War and Peace (Yale University Press, 1991), pp. 1-7 (7p)
• May, Ernest and Philip Zelikow. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis (Belknap Press, 1997), pp. 542-549 (7p)
• Sanger, David. Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (Crown, 2012), pp. ix-xx, 15-27. (16p)
• WikiSummary, “Allison: Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis” (1p)

 Recommended background for participants not familiar with the U.S. government:

• Kegley, Charles W. and Eugene R. Wittkopf. American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process, 5th ed. (St. Martin’s Press, 1996) Chapters 10-11