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Block IV: Grand Strategy and Security Policy

The fourth course block on Grand Strategy and Security Policy is conducted jointly with the National Defense University and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, based at Fort McNair, the National Intelligence University of the Defense Intelligence Agency, based at the Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, based at the Pentagon, and the Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security of The Atlantic Council of the United States.

Prof. Andreas Wenger

is Professor of International and Swiss Security Policy at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and Director of the Center for Security Studies (CSS). He is the delegate for the MAS ETH SPCM of the Department of Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich and is the MAS ETH SPCM representative. Andreas holds a doctoral degree from the University of Zurich.

Prof. Frank Schimmelfennig

is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich and member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies.

Prof. Hanns W. Maull

holds since 1991 the Chair for Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of Trier.

Prof. François Heisbourg

is Chairman of the IISS and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique Paris).

Dr. Daniel Möckli

is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center of Security Studies and head of its Strategic Trends Analysis unit.

National Defense University

Ambassador Thomas C. Krajeski

began his assignment as the Senior Vice President of the National Defense University (NDU) on August 3, 2009. He oversees NDU’s international programs, provides foreign policy perspective and advice to the University community, and assumes the duties of the President of NDU in her absence. Ambassador Krajeski also lectures on foreign policy, national security issues, the interagency process, and the role of the State Department.

Leo Michel

is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, concentrating on transatlantic defense and security issues. He joined INSS in 2002 after 17 years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where his positions included Director for NATO Policy, Director for Non-Nuclear Arms Control, and Secretary of Defense Representative to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Consultative Commission.

National Intelligence University

Dr. John Yuretchko

teaches the Information Operations and Information Warfare course at the Institute of World Politics. Previously he was an adjunct professor in the National Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.

Kenneth Knight

seasoned intelligence executive with a thirty-year record of accomplishment as a leader, manager, and analyst at the national, departmental, and theater echelons. Fifteen years experience deciphering complex over-the-horizon global developments, anticipating emerging risks and opportunities, and providing strategic analysis and warning to the President of the United States, his national security team, the Congress, and other US and Allied defense and foreign policy executives.

Office of the Secretary of Defense

James Townsend

is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, responsible for managing the day-to-day defense relationship between the United States, NATO, the EU and the nations of Europe. Before taking up his current position, Jim was a Vice President of the Atlantic Council of the United States and Director of the Council’s Program on International Security. He is an adjunct professor of international studies at American University and has lectured overseas and in the US at the War Colleges, National Defense University, and the Foreign Service Institute.

Brigadier Michael McDaniel

is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense (HD) Strategy, Prevention and Mission Assurance. These responsibilities include oversight of HD Strategy, Force Planning, Experimentation, Science and Technology, Mission Assurance, Intergovernmental Relations and outreach to DHS, state and local governments and the private sector, congressional and White House liaison, and HD domestic Counterterrorism and Counternarcotics programs on behalf of the ASD for Homeland Defense. His responsibilities in Mission Assurance include supervision of both the DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection program and Global Anti-terrorism/Force Protection policy.

David Sedney

is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs.

Atlantic Council of the United States