GLBL 5002a, Policy Communicator  William Vance

Policy professionals engage a spectrum of stakeholders as they analyze issues and share findings. This work requires a refined set of personal communication tools for inquiry, collaborating, reporting, and presenting policy recommendations. Students in this course strengthen their skills by experimenting with the oral communication tasks related to policy work. We address the different types of information architecture required in synchronic contexts, explore the cognitive approaches needed for spoken interactions, build confidence in speaking to groups, and diversify approaches to persuasion. Students benefit from speech analysis technology and personal data visualizations of their linguistic choices. Throughout the course, students receive rich feedback about the impact of their words, the clarity of their messages, and their policy advocacy.  ½ Course cr
F 1:30pm-3:25pm

GLBL 5004a, Writing Persuasively for Policy and Politics  David Morse

The primary objective is to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to write persuasively as policy professionals. This semester-long course is divided into three units: the policy memo; the argumentative essay; and the speech. For the policy memo, students choose a policy topic of their own, then carry out every step of the policy analysis process, from defining, framing, and analyzing the problem to identifying and evaluating possible solutions, to building a case for recommendations. For the policy-focused essay, students identify practical rhetorical strategies to argue persuasively about their chosen policy topic in the public domain. Students practice deploying both emotional and rational appeals while confronting difficult normative questions about how to write persuasively without manipulating readers or devolving into spin. Finally, for the speech, students study a variety of noteworthy speeches that have had a real-world impact.  Drawing on these insights, students craft their own speech. At the end of the semester, students have the option to present their speeches orally to the Jackson community. Students have the choice to take the course for a grade or Sat/Unsat. Priority is given to Jackson graduate students. In general, students are admitted based on the order in which they apply. Note: this course combines elements of two previous courses offered by the Jackson Writing Program: GLBL 5000, Professional Public Policy Writing, and GLBL 5001, Disinformation and the Craft of Ethical Persuasion.
Th 1:30pm-3:25pm

GLBL 5015a, Negotiation  Barry Nalebuff and Daylian Cain

This half-semester course presents a principled approach to negotiation, one based on game theory. The key insight is to recognize what is at stake in a negotiation—the unique value created by an agreement—what we call the “pie.” This lens changes the way students understand power and fairness in negotiation. It helps make students more creative and effective negotiators. The course provides several opportunities for students to practice skill via case studies and get feedback on what students did well and where they might improve.  ½ Course cr
Th 3:30pm-6pm

GLBL 5020a, Applied Methods of Analysis  Justin Thomas

This course is an introduction to statistics and their application in public policy and global affairs research. It consists of two weekly class sessions in addition to a discussion section. The discussion section is used to cover problems encountered in the lectures and written assignments, as well as to develop statistical computing skills. Throughout the term we cover issues related to data collection (including surveys, sampling, and weighted data), data description (graphical and numerical techniques for summarizing data), probability and probability distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, measures of association, and regression analysis. The course assumes no prior knowledge of statistics and no mathematical knowledge beyond calculus. Graded only, sat/unsat option is not permissible. 
MW 1:05pm-2:20pm

GLBL 5030a, History and Global Affairs  David Engerman

Nobody can understand the present without a keen understanding of the past. After all, history is all we have to go on in providing the resources for making sense of the world we live in. Successful policy makers understand this and turn historical sensibility to their advantage in interpreting the present. They understand how good policy is grounded in sound historical thinking. The purpose of the core requirement is to introduce advanced students of global affairs to the manifold ways in which history is discussed and perceived today. Different from the social sciences, history as a discipline is less about prediction and more about finding out where we come from and what challenges the past has bequeathed to us. It is also about grasping, in a critical fashion, that we know the future only by the past we project into it.
T 1:30pm-3:25pm

GLBL 6115a, Topics in Computer Science and Global Affairs  Joan Feigenbaum and Ted Wittenstein

This course focuses on “socio-technical” problems in computing and international relations. These are problems that cannot be solved through technological progress alone but rather require legal, political, or cultural progress as well.  Examples include but are not limited to cyber espionage, disinformation, ransomware attacks, and intellectual-property theft. This course is offered jointly by the SEAS Computer Science Department and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. It is addressed to graduate students who are interested in socio-technical issues but whose undergraduate course work may not have addressed them; it is designed to bring these students rapidly to the point at which they can do research on socio-technical problems. Prerequisites: Basics of cryptography and computer security (CPSC 4670), networks (CPSC 4330), and databases (CPSC 4370) helpful but not required.
W 4pm-5:55pm

GLBL 6285b, China’s Challenge to the Global Economic Order  Hanscom Smith

In the decades after 1979, China’s adherence to key tenets of the US-backed liberal international economic system enabled it to achieve middle income status. After the 2008-9 global financial crisis, however, weaknesses in the US model combined with China’s own sustained growth increased Beijing’s confidence in an alternative, state-oriented model that increasingly underpins China's foreign economic engagement. This course examines the basis of China’s economic strength as a precursor to investigating the Belt and Road initiatives, trade, investment, and development policies, international organization advocacy, business practices, and other aspects of China’s growing international economic footprint. These factors are analyzed from the perspective of China’s internal dynamics, competition with the United States, and overall foreign policy goals and are evaluated for their impact on the prevailing global economic order. Planned guest speakers include senior representatives from the State Department and the Embassy of China in Washington, as well as experts on Chinese investment in the United States and Taiwan’s role in global technology supply chains. In-class simulations focus on China’s WTO accession and the Belt and Road Initiative versus the Indo-Pacific Strategy. The course is taught by a practitioner who spent over a decade managing US government economic policy in and on China.
T 1:30pm-3:25pm

GLBL 6610a, Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power I  Ted Wittenstein

This two-term course, featuring guest scholars and practitioners from across the university, examines how artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to alter the fundamental building blocks of world order. Machines capable of sophisticated information processing, towards the frontier of autonomy, pose tremendous opportunities for economic growth and societal well-being. Yet the potential risks also are extraordinary.  How can we build AI systems that are reliable, transparent, safe, scalable, and aligned with human values? Following an introduction to AI and survey of current research challenges, the seminar focuses on seven core areas where AI and emergent technologies already pose significant security concerns: (1) lethal autonomous weapons and the nature of conflict, (2) disinformation and the future of democracy, (3) competition and conflict in U.S.-China relations, (4) AI ethics and safety, (5) AI governance, (6) nanotechnology and quantum computing, and (7) outer-space development. For each of these sub-units, the goal is to equip aspiring leaders with requisite technical fluency, and to bridge the divide across the law, technology, and policy communities at Yale.
Th 1:30pm-3:25pm

GLBL 7003a, Workplace Culture in the Policy Space  Staff

Through skills assessment, readings, journal reflections, and individual coaching, this course prepares students to assess and identify individual strengths to bring to desired career paths in public policy, track progress in developing new strengths, and prepare students to work in effective teams. The course is intended to be taken in conjunction with off-campus employment during the third or fourth semesters of the M.P.P. program. Such employment must be arranged directly by the student and is not facilitated by the Career Development Office. International students on visas must comply with regulations pertaining to their visa status. Total employment during the academic year, off-campus and on-campus combined, may not exceed twenty hours a week. International M.P.P. students on F-1 visas who have completed at least two semesters of full-time study, can be authorized under current regulations for Curricular Practical Training (CPT) pursuant to enrollment in this course, provided they meet the relevant eligibility and procedural requirements. The academic credit earned in the course does not count towards the fulfillment of the M.P.P. requirements.  ½ Course cr
HTBA

GLBL 7070a, Russian Intelligence, Information Warfare, and Social Media  Asha Rangappa

This course explores the evolution of information warfare as a national security threat to the United States and democratic countries around the world. Beginning with the KGB’s use of “active measures” during the Cold War, the course looks at how propaganda and disinformation campaigns became central to the Putin regime and how social media has facilitated their expansion. We examine the psychology of disinformation and how media “bubbles” and existing social fissures in the United States, such as racism and political polarization, provide ripe vulnerabilities for exploitation by foreign actors. Using Russia’s efforts in U.S. presidential elections, during COVID, and in Ukraine as examples of this new form of warfare, students explore potential policy solutions in the realm of Internet regulation, civic education, media literacy, and human “social capital” as defenses against this growing threat. Guest speakers with expertise in Russian intelligence, information warfare, psychology, and other disciplines complement the discussion.
M 4pm-5:55pm

GLBL 7165a, Earth System Science for Public Policy  Jessica Seddon

Environmental change is accelerating. Ongoing shifts in temperature, rainfall, storm intensity, seasonal patterns, species ranges and interactions, ecosystem health, and more already represent a profound shift in humans’ “operating environment,” to borrow a phrase from the authors of the planetary boundary’s framework. And the science suggests that the pace will not let up. If anything, we can expect more sudden and irreversible changes—tipping points—that will affect economies, polities, and societies as well as human health and wellbeing. This course seeks to build public policy professionals’ familiarity with policy-relevant aspects of earth system dynamics through reading of recent scientific papers, guest lectures by climate scientists, ecologists, and other experts, and explanatory lectures that connect concepts such as earth’s energy imbalance, atmospheric chemistry, the hydrologic cycle, carbon cycle, and to contemporary public policy pressures and opportunities.
M 9:25am-11:20am

GLBL 7280a, Leadership  Christopher Fussell

This course is designed for students wanting to deeply reflect on what it means to be a leader, and to help them prepare for leading others in their future. Amongst the many pressures of the role, leaders affect the lives of those they lead, influence the health of the organization they oversee, and hold an important role in advancing social progress. Many learn these realities through trial and error but are rarely given the time to consider what leadership truly entails and how we, as individual leaders, will handle the challenges that lie ahead. From heading up a small team to running a major organization, leadership is often an isolating and uncertain position, but is also full of opportunity to positively impact others, and to advance society broadly. Leadership is challenging, exciting, and sometimes terrifying; but most importantly, it is a choice to which one must recommit every day. This course is designed to offer a foundation in the practice of leadership for students who want to take on these challenges in their future. The course is divided into three main sections: historic perspectives on leadership, leadership in context, and personal reflections on leadership. Students finish the semester with a foundational understanding of leadership models throughout history, a range of case studies to refer to in the future, and most importantly, a personal framework that can be applied and expanded throughout their journey and growth as a leader. Students do not leave with all the answers they need to conquer the countless challenges that leaders face, but they instead leave with an understanding of how leaders work, every day, to improve themselves and better the lives of those they lead.
Th 4:30pm-6:25pm

GLBL 7290a, Ethical Choices in Public Leadership  Eric Braverman

All public leaders must make choices that challenge their code of ethics. Sometimes, a chance of life or death is literally at stake: how and when should a leader decide to let some people die, or explicitly ask people to die to give others a chance to live? At other times, while life or death may not be at stake, a leader must still decide difficult issues: when to partner with unsavory characters, when to admit failure, when to release information or make choices transparent. The pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and continued instability around the world all make clearer than ever the consequences of decisions in one community that can affect the entire world. This interdisciplinary seminar draws on perspectives from law, management, and public policy in exploring how leaders develop their principles, respond when their principles fail or conflict, and make real-world choices when, in fact, there are no good choices. Both permission of the instructor and application are required. Attendance at first session is mandatory.
F 8:30am-11:15am

GLBL 7560a, Democracy and Distribution  Ian Shapiro

An examination of relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth. The central focus is on ways in which different groups and coalitions affect, and are affected by, democratic distributive politics. This course also examines the variation among democracies in the provision of education, social and health insurance, and policies designed to ameliorate inequalities.
W 9:25am-11:20am