Applying New Tools and Technologies to Today's Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula In 2017, North Korea tested a missile capable of delivering a powerful thermonuclear weapon against cities throughout the United States. How do scholars study international security challenges like the spread of nuclear weapons? In this course, students will develop an open source intelligence toolkit applicable to a broad universe of international security challenges, with special focus on nuclear weapons and North Korea. No prior knowledge is assumed, and students outside political science are encouraged to participate. The tools covered, such as satellite imagery, have broad applicability beyond nonproliferation, to areas such as human trafficking, climate change, oceans policy, and counterterrorism.  Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. At the Middlebury Institute he teaches courses on arms control issues in Northeast Asia and Chinese nuclear policy.

Jeffrey Lewis

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Engaging and passionate professors make a course. Professor Lewis teaches a very intense course on a subject which obliges you to stay interested. He is the expert on the subject of Non-proliferation and the new style of learning using Google Earth, Primary sources, and QGIS was a very refreshing take on education.

The professor provided a super fun experience for a J-term course. Every day was something new, and the course overall was very low difficulty. I would definitely recommend especially to those looking for a break from the constant workload at Middlebury.

Jeffrey is an amazing professor with a very interesting career. In his class he brings us into his professional career making my classmates and I feel very special. Investigating North Korean missile capability was extremely fun and exciting.