Program Review - Missouri State University

[EliEverIsAHero]

I'm now studying Defense/National Security Policy at Missouri State instead.

What is it like there today? A 2011 blog post from "Militarist Monitor" describes the department as a den of Republican foreign policy hawks (as Republican hawks were at the time, Reagan-Bush era, pre-Trump).

While officials who've served in past GOP administrations are still well-represented in the faculty, most are aligned with a Defensive Realist school of thought. imo pacifist nonprofit orgs like Militarist Monitor have a way of distorting and misrepresenting International Relations Realism as warmongering. I know for myself I specifically chose the program for its Realist theoretical focus. 

I've also found there's plenty wide berth as a student to take a competing or dissenting stance in courses dealing with ethics or international organizations.