Dear IPS students, faculty, staff, and members of the Carnegie Mellon community,
The relationship between the US and China has grown in importance and will continue to do so in the coming years. In the most recent issue of the Center for International Relations and Politics (CIRP) Journal, the student contributors explored the layers of the relationship between the two countries.
"I feel that the US-China relationship could end up being the most important relationship of the twenty-first century," said Jack Yuan, who wrote about Chinese perceptions of future US-China relations. "In the formulation of a strategy for great-power competition, it is important to understand the perceptions and motivations of competitors."
"While writing the article, I had initially thought about US-China relations in bilateral terms, but my understanding of US-China relations improved rapidly once I considered how other nations, particularly those in Asia, factored into the relationship and their history with both China and the US," said Shlok Goyal regarding his article, "Negotiating with China Through Allies."
In this week's newsletter, we also offer the latest events -- including a virtual talk about election interference with former IPS Postdoctoral Fellow Dov Levin -- and student opportunities, and continue to seek submissions from alumni: your latest accomplishments, career moves, or continued education. If you'd like to get in touch, please email me here.
Sincerely,
Bill Brink
IPS Communications Specialist
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
5 p.m. to 6 p.m. EDT on Zoom
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Why do world powers sometimes try to determine who wins an election in another country? What effects does such meddling have on the targeted elections results? Great powers have attempted for centuries to intervene in elections occurring in other states through various covert and overt methods, with the American intervention in the 2013 Kenyan elections and the Russian intervention in the 2016 US elections being just two recent examples. Indeed, the Americans and the Soviets/Russians intervened in one out of every nine national-level executive elections between 1946 and 2000. |
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CIRP Journal Issue Eight:
US-China Relations
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Visit our CIRP website, where you can read the journal in its entirety or broken out into individual articles.
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Professional and Academic Opportunities |
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Apply now to the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program! |
Applications are now being accepted for the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program (CMU/WSP) for Spring 2021!
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with a preferred due date of October 1, 2020. You can apply here.
Please contact Emily Half for an individual appointment to discuss the program.
Undergraduates from any course of study are invited to apply. In this semester-long program, students live, intern, and study in Washington, DC, coming into direct contact with political, business, and community leaders and learning about the most pressing policy issues of the day.
Students earn forty-eight units for the CMU/WSP, while interning twenty-five hours per week in any sector or field of interest within Washington, DC, and taking CMU classes. The Institute for Politics and Strategy sponsors events and forums for students to enhance their understanding of Washington as a hub of national and international policy-making.
For more information about CMU/WSP, check out the website here. You can also hear what some alumni liked best about the program here, or see how it helped others achieve their career goals here.
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Small Undergraduate Research Grants: Spring 2021 |
The Small Undergraduate Research Grants (SURG) program offers grants for materials and supplies to undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon for research in any field of study.
SURG Proposal Deadline for Spring 2021 Awards: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
Executive Education:
"The Future of Missile Defense"
Join top think-tank scholars, senior military and Pentagon experts, and experienced policymakers for an in-depth look at the cutting-edge technologies, guiding principles, and future trends shaping today’s missile defense strategy. From tabletop exercises to guest lectures, The Future of Missile Defense provides a hands-on, interactive introduction to the most important challenges and opportunities facing industry leaders, national security officials, and global decision-makers.
Course Dates: October 19-22, 2020
Registration Deadline: October 5, 2020
Tuition: $3,000
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Remote Get Out the Vote Internship:
Tedra Cobb for Congress
Tedra Cobb for Congress is seeking remote Get Out the Vote interns to help run an innovative grassroots organizing program and learn the ins and outs of a modern political campaign. Remote GOTV interns will be exposed to every facet of the campaign, and learn what it takes to turn out voters in a top-tier, high-salience election.
Responsibilities:
● Spearheading an organizing program in your school
● Managing and inputting information into campaign database
● Completing research projects
● Communicating with volunteers and voters
● Willingness to assist with all tasks as needed
Requirements:
● Weekly commitment of ten to fifteen hours
● Complete weekly activity report
● Appropriate conduct and behavior when representing and working with the campaign
● Completing a minimum of two voter contact shifts
● Attending weekly virtual trainings designed to expose interns to a variety of political campaign departments, skill sets, and career development opportunities
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- Join Carnegie Mellon's third annual INTERSECT@CMU conference
The 2020 INTERSECT@CMU Virtual Conference Series gathers expert speakers from within CMU and beyond to explore the long-term global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on four foundational elements of society: health, sustainability, the economy and education.
Economy Keynote and Panel Discussion
September 25 at 1 p.m. ET
Education Keynote and Panel Discussion
October 2 at 1 p.m. ET
Student-Led Programming and Future-Thon
September 10-13
- Heinz College Virtual Federal Government Week
- Join the American Enterprise Institute's 2020 Weekend Honors Program
The American Enterprise Institute Academic Programs department is now accepting nominations for our 2020 Weekend Honors Program.
This year’s Weekend Honors Program — to be held virtually on October 23 and 24 — is titled Four Debates Shaping Education Reform and will gather sixteen to twenty undergraduates from a variety of schools, academic backgrounds, and viewpoints for a series of seminars led by AEI’s Frederick M. Hess.
Together, Dr. Hess and the students will explore four major questions shaping education reform today: How do we pay teachers? How should we think about the promise of school choice? How do we make sure that our colleges and universities are places of free inquiry? How do we ensure that higher education is about expanding opportunity?
- Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa Annual Conference: Understanding the Regions: Politics, Identity, and History of the Middle East and Africa
November 18 - 20, 2020
Virtual Format
This year's Keynote speech will be delivered by acclaimed, veteran Turkish journalist Burak Bekdil. His presentation is titled: "Erdogan's Neo-Ottoman Irredentism: How Serious A Military Challenge?"
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IPS Research Fellow Abby Schachter wrote about her personal experience in the aftermath of the Tree of Life shooting for the October 2020 edition of Commentary Magazine. The essay is excerpted from Bound in the Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy (University of Pittsburgh Press).
"While the United States is concerned primarily about a resurgent China’s inroads in the Middle East, it is also nervous about the gambits of a revanchist Russia, which is perhaps now the most influential external actor in both Syria and Libya." IPS Assistant Teaching Professor Colin Clarke co-authored a piece for Lawfare.
IPS Director and Taube Professor Kiron Skinner appeared on Fox Business to discuss the Trump administrations' recent work in the Middle East.
IPS Research Fellow Abby Schachter examined E.D. Hirsch's educational research and the public school system for the Institute for Family Studies.
IPS Assistant Teaching Professor Colin Clarke spoke to The Wall Street Journal about mass protests and demonstrations in America's cities.
IPS Director and Taube Professor Kiron Skinner and IPS Postdoctdoral Fellow Alma Keshavarz co-authored an op-ed in The National Interest explaining how recent peace deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain could turn the tide against Iran in the Middle East.
IPS Postdoctoral Fellow Dani Nedal co-authored a piece for Political Violence at a Glance analyzing why the United States' urban landscape makes a civil war as the election approaches unlikely.
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We'd love to hear from you! Please share your latest accomplishments, career moves,
higher-education opportunities, or anything you think IPS students would find interesting or helpful. Contact us here.
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