Dear IPS students, faculty, staff, and members of the Carnegie Mellon community,
Course registration is coming up, and we've got you covered.
IPS faculty recorded videos describing their Spring 2021 courses: why they are important now, how they're taught, what they cover, and what type of further education or career path they might benefit. Use them as you prepare for your spring semester to meet the professors and get a better feel for the classes.
While you're thinking about those courses: If you are majoring in a technical discipline or planning to do so, consider our Cybersecurity and International Conflict minor. It complements technical majors well; read more below.
We have one more event before the end of the semester: A discussion of the diplomatic relations between Serbia and Kosovo, with IPS Senior Fellow Ambassador Richard Grenell. The event has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 1.
Sincerely,
Bill Brink
IPS Communications Specialist
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NEW DATE: Tuesday, December 1, 2020
4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. EST on Zoom
Join us for a conversation about Serbia and Kosovo with IPS Senior Fellow and former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, and IPS Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Silverman.
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Kiron Skinner rejoins CSIS Missile Defense Project Advisory Board |
Professor Skinner, the Director and Taube Professor of Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy, was a board member prior to joining the State Department.
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This micro-course will expose students to the multi-faceted nature of key twenty-first century security challenges through the lens of a war game. The value of war games is increasingly recognized by scholars and practitioners due to their ability to make us think creatively and rigorously. This course will feature a weekend-long (Thursday-Sunday) digital war game run by terrorism scholar and author Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, along with a team of other experts, role players, and referees from his firm Valens Global.
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The Cybersecurity and International Conflict minor can add context and perspective to students pursuing a technical major such as engineering or computer science. By adding the ‘why’ to a technical major’s ‘how,’ the minor illustrates the use of technology in politics and on the battlefield between both nation-states and non-state actors.
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“If you look at the Obama and Trump records, there is a remarkable consistency, including establishing a lighter footprint for the US around the globe and the effort to have NATO partners spend more on mutual defense,” IPS Director and Taube Professor Kiron Skinner told syndicated columnist David Shribman.
"The court did not undo the gerrymander that existed. They only slightly undid the gerrymander that existed.” IPS Postdoctoral Fellow Jonathan Cervas spoke with The News & Observer about the effect of outdated population numbers on election results in North Carolina.
Howard Heinz University Professor Baruch Fischhoff spoke to The Huffington Post about the threat of spreading COVID-19 during holiday travel and gatherings.
IPS Research Coordinator John Chin contributed to a Vox piece about Trump's post-election actions.
“Iran uses sectarianism as a cudgel when it suits the regime, but is also willing to overlook the Sunni-Shia divide when it suits Iranian interests,” IPS Assistant Teaching Professor Colin Clarke told Sofrep.
“I just don’t see Trump having that level of support within the military or sufficient backing in the courts to pull off the moves needed to stay in power.” IPS Research Coordinator John Chin spoke to The Intercept and put Trump's post-election actions in context.
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Professional and Academic Opportunities |
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Through its program of fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Apply online by December 10, 2020.
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Submit an entry to the Douglas B. Rogers Conditions of a Free Society
Essay Competition
Honoring the memory of Doug Rogers, a young scholar of great promise who died tragically in 2011, the competition is meant to encourage undergraduate students to join the Center for Political and Economic Thought in discussing themes of Western Civilization such as individual freedom, limited constitutional government, free market economics, and the philosophical and moral foundations of America and the West.
This year students are asked to consider the following passage from Ludwig von Mises’s Liberalism and comment on the intellectual origins of the quotation and its enduring significance for cultivating the virtues necessary to sustain a free society.
“…But the root of the opposition to liberalism cannot be reached by resort to the method of reason. This opposition does not stem from the reason, but from a pathological mental attitude—from resentment and from a neurasthenic condition that one might call a Fourier complex, after the French socialist of that name. Concerning resentment and envious malevolence little need be said. Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses if only the hated one might also come to harm. Many of those who attack capitalism know very well that their situation under any other economic system will be less favorable. Nevertheless, with full knowledge of this fact, they advocate a reform, e.g. socialism, because they hope that the rich, whom they envy, will also suffer under it. Time and again one hears socialists say that even material want will be easier to bear in a socialist society because people will realize that no one is better off than his neighbor.”
The competition is open to all full-time undergraduate students currently registered at the time of submission in any field of study at a college or university in the United States or Canada. The Center will appoint a committee of judges to select the winning essays. Prizes will not be awarded if, in the exclusive opinion of the judges, submitted essays are of insufficient quality. Essays that are, in the exclusive opinion of the judges, of publishable quality will, with the consent of the author, be eligible for publication in the Center’s journal,Citizens and Statesmen: An Annual Review of Political Theory and Public Life. Cash prizes will be as follows: first place: $2,000; second place: $1,000; third place: $500. Prior to the awarding of prizes, winners will be required to verify their eligibility and to attest to the fact that the winning essay is wholly their own. Any amount of plagiarism will result in disqualification.
Although there is no minimum word requirement, we expect high quality writing and serious analysis. Submissions should be sent in Microsoft Word format to [email protected] by January 15, 2021. Winners will be notified in February.
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Deadline extended: Submit a proposal for the MPSA Political Science Conference
The 2021 Midwest Political Science Organization virtual conference will emphasize and prioritize high-quality research presentations and high-quality discussant feedback from senior scholars to assist junior scholars in getting the kind of professional research feedback they need to move their research forward.
The 2021 virtual conference will emphasize and prioritize high-quality research presentations and high-quality discussant feedback from senior scholars to assist junior scholars in getting the kind of professional research feedback they need to move their research forward. Submit a proposal by November 24.
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Apply now for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Journalism Seminar Series
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments launched a new national security seminar aimed at journalists working the defense beat for both trade and general interest media outlets. This program will bring together reporters and writers for a virtual series of interactive seminars that illuminate the conceptual foundations of defense policy as well as the intricacies of contemporary national security processes. The forum will comprise four evening sessions beginning in January 2021 and will feature senior CSBA leaders and advisors, independent national security experts, and veterans of defense journalism.
Interested parties should submit a current CV and cover letters
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APSIA Virtual Open Houses
Want to learn more about some of the most crucial issues facing our world today? Want to connect with some of the best graduate programs in the world while doing so? Register today for a free online series of events featuring leading grad schools from around the world, presented by the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.
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