I Teach?

I have finally finished my syllabi for Defense Statecraft and East Asian Security. This is the first time I’ve taught the latter, so it’s a bit rough. I went with a state based approach rather than an issue based because it seemed easier to creative cohesive units with the former than the latter. We’ll see how it works out. I conceive of the Defense Statecraft syllabus as, essentially, “what civilians ought to know about military affairs”, although the structure of the course is obviously colored by my interests and prejudices. The audiences for both courses are policy-oriented graduate students, which explains the relative lack of theoretical material.