Here's good news for those of you in the Washington, DC area who want to spend edifying Thursday evenings: There's still time to sign up for my political warfare course at the Institute of World Politics.
The four-credit course, Political Warfare: Past, Present and Future, is an intensive 14-week survey of the history, philosophies and techniques of political warfare from antiquity to the present. We study the classics - ancient Greece, Rome, India and China and the Hebrews, among others - and move on through the Crusades and then to Machiavelli, the American Revolution (particularly Samuel Adams), 19th century Europe, World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, Antonio Gramsci, Saul Alinsky, and present-day Islamic political warfare.
Like most of IWP's graduate-level curriculum, the Naval War College accepts this unique course as an elective. I'm teaching the course at IWP in downtown Washington, DC, on Thursday nights from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. Class starts on September 2.
Apply online at www.iwp.edu (click on upper left corner). For a list of required readings and other course descriptions, see the unofficial course website at www.politicalwarfare.us.
My Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions and Policy course, offered on Monday evenings, is full this semester. In Spring 2011, I will be teaching Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare.
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