Substantive Policy Emphasis: Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption
TraCCC is pleased to announce the new Substantive Policy Emphasis in Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. The program requires 4 completed courses from the list below:
For further information please contact TraCCC at traccc@gmu.edu
Title: Transnational Crime and Corruption (link to syllabus)
Instructor: Dr. Louise Shelley, SPP Professor and TraCCC Founder and Director
Course number: PUBP710-009 (Cross-listed as ITRN 701-005)
The course will provide an overview of transnational crime and corruption and its effects
on the political, economic, and social development of countries around the world. The
increasing problem of transnational crime in conflict regions will be a central focus. The
increasing links among crime groups, corruption and terrorism will be addressed. The
diverse range of activities of transnational crime groups in both the legitimate and
illegitimate economy will be analyzed.
Title: Human Smuggling and Trafficking (link to syllabus)
Instructor: Dr. Louise Shelley, SPP Professor and TraCCC Founder and Director
Course number: ITRN701-009
The course will examine the rapidly growing phenomenon of human smuggling and trafficking.
It will examine the rise of these phenomena as major international policy issues. The class will
address the reasons for the growth of these phenomena and their far-reaching and diverse social,
political and economic consequences in countries across the globe. The class will focus on the
transnational crime dimensions of the problem. The phenomenon will be examined in conflict
regions, developing, diverse developed as well as transitional societies.
Title: Non-Traditional Security Threats (link to syllabus)
Instructor: Dr. Christopher Corpora, Long-term TraCCC Associate and SPP Adjunct Professor
Course number: PUBP710-006 (Cross-listed as ITRN 701)
This course will trace the major intellectual discussions and empirical facts associated with
these non-traditional threats – identifying their complex relationship with traditional and new
realities of global security. In this discussion the students will be introduced to several new
ways to think about these issues – driving a broader policy dialog around the possibilities for
transforming and managing these global threats. Students will be challenged to question
several long-held assumptions and entertain different ways to explain and address these nontraditional
threats to global security and stability.
Title: International Migration, Global Governance, and the Knowledge Economy (link to syllabus)
Instructor: Dr. David Hart, TraCCC Associate and SPP Associate Professor
Course number: PUBP710-011 (cross-listed as ITRN 701-003)
This course will provide students with a general introduction to international migration
and public policy in the 21st century. Within that context, we will seek a deeper
understanding of how flows of people across borders shape the distribution of knowledge
and its associated costs and benefits. The course will take a global perspective, striving
to identify win-win solutions for sending countries, receiving countries, and the migrants
themselves whenever possible, and wrestling pragmatically with the ethical, political, and
social dilemmas posed when such solutions are not vailable.
Title: International Police Operations (link to syllabus)
Instructor: Angelic Young, SPP Adjunct Professor
Course number: PUBP 751
Assisting states in transition from the “rule of the gun” to “the rule of law” is one of the most
pressing challenges of our time. Through peacekeeping missions, coalition activities, and
bilateral assistance programs, the international community grapples with how best to assist
fragile or failing states with the provision of security while simultaneously fostering an
environment for long term rule of law development and security sector reform. This course will
challenge students to consider the real-life dilemmas facing policy-makers and rule of law
practitioners. Students will analyze past successes and missteps while weighing and applying
options for the future. The course draws heavily on the instructors’ practical experience.
Title: National Security Decision-making Policy (link to syllabus)
Instructor: Chris Corpora, Long-term TraCCC Associate and SPP Adjunct Professor
Course number: PUBP 755-001
This course will review the main attributes and influences that inform national security decisionmaking
– behavioral, economic, strategic, institutional and others – mapping this often complex
set of processes. We will explore the tensions found between these orientations and examine
how to identify and explain them through a mix of national security case studies and
methodological studies from and around the fields of political psychology and organizational
theory. The case studies used in this course will span from well-documented historical events
through current and developing national security issues.
Title: National Security Law & Public Policy (link to syllabus)
Instructor: Dr. Stuart Malawer, SPP Professor and TraCCC Associate
Course number: PUBP 759-001 (cross listed with ITRN 701-007)
This is an introductory course to the legal and policy issues concerning U.S. national security today. Its emphasis is on developments since 9/11. It focuses on the legal rules governing the formulation and execution of U.S. national security policy. It examines U.S. and international law as well as general domestic and foreign policy considerations. In particular, the course considers the principal cases, legislation and treaties impacting U.S. national security. Special emphasis is on the interplay of national security concerns and civil liberties in this age of global and transnational terrorism.
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