INTL604 - Interagency Operations
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Learn how to improve interagency relationships among security, defense, and intelligence agencies. This course introduces the student to theoretical and practical material for understanding the behavior of individual organizations and what can be done to make organizations work more closely together at the federal, state, and local levels. Students are introduced to theoretical material on organizational cultures; bureaucracy; social trust; individual, group, and organizational decision-making; and interagency collaboration. Emphasis is placed on explaining why organizations act the way they do and how to improve interagency coordination. Prerequisite: INTL500 Research Methods in Security and Intelligence Studies or other APUS 500-level graduate research methods course.
Prerequisites
N/A
Corequisites
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Schedule of Classes
| 11/05/09 - 03/28/10 |
04/05/10 - 05/30/10 |
Spring 2010 Session B - 8 Week session |
| 11/30/09 - 04/25/10 |
05/03/10 - 06/27/10 |
Spring 2010 Session I - 8 Week session |
| 12/28/09 - 05/30/10 |
06/07/10 - 08/01/10 |
Spring 2010 Session D - 8 Week session |
| 01/25/10 - 06/27/10 |
07/05/10 - 08/29/10 |
Summer 2010 Session B - 8 Week session |
| 02/22/10 - 07/25/10 |
08/02/10 - 09/26/10 |
Summer 2010 Session I - 8 Week session |
| 03/29/10 - 08/29/10 |
09/06/10 - 10/31/10 |
Summer 2010 Session D - 8 Week session |
| 04/26/10 - 09/26/10 |
10/04/10 - 11/28/10 |
Fall 2010 Session B - 8 Week session |
| 05/31/10 - 10/24/10 |
11/01/10 - 12/26/10 |
Fall 2010 Session I - 8 Week session |
| 06/28/10 - 11/28/10 |
12/06/10 - 01/30/11 |
Fall 2010 Session D - 8 Week session |
Course Materials
| Book Title: |
The 9/11 Commission Report - [Available Online]
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| ISBN: |
0393326713
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| Publication Info: |
W.W. Norton & Company; (July 22, 2004)
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| Book Title: |
Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy & Analysis
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| ISBN: |
0801837766
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| Publication Info: |
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989
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| Book Title: |
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
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| ISBN: |
0321013492
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| Publication Info: |
Pearson
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| Book Title: |
Getting Agencies to Work Together - ebook available in the APUS Online Library
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| ISBN: |
0815707975
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| Publication Info: |
Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998
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| Book Title: |
Bowling Alone
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| ISBN: |
0743203046
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| Publication Info: |
New York: Touchstone, 2000
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| Book Title: |
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do & Why They Do It
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| ISBN: |
0465007856
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| Publication Info: |
NY: Basic Books, 1991
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