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Center for International Relations and Politics Research Coordinator John Chin was named a 2020-2021 Research Fellow at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He will continue to conduct research on why civil resistance works in the face of coup attempts. This involves the creation of a database, the Colpus Mass Mobilization dataset, which will help scholars systematically analyze coups and civil resistance.
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International Relations and Politics major Audrey Pederson, a junior first baseman on Carnegie Mellon's softball team, is a member of the Fall 2020 cohort of the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program. She will chronicle her time in DC with a series of blogs. Read the first dispatch, where she discusses her decision to participate in the program and the discussion she had with her coach, here.
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Friday, September 18, 2020
12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT on Zoom
Join IPS Director and Taube Professor and Kiron Skinner on Zoom for a viewing of The Times of Harvey Milk, about the twentieth-century trailblazer, human rights activist, and one of the first openly gay US politicians elected to public office. Professor Skinner will lead a discussion of the film afterward.
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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.
We have an information session next week:
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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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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Nominations now open for Baylor University's 2022 Robert Foster Cherry Award
Baylor University’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching honors outstanding professors in the English-speaking world who are distinguished by their ability to communicate as classroom teachers. Individuals nominated for the award should have a proven record as an extraordinary teacher with a positive, inspiring and long-lasting effect on students, along with a record of distinguished scholarship. Nominations should correspond with academic units engaged in undergraduate teaching at Baylor.
Each finalist will receive $15,000. Finalists will present a Cherry Award Lecture on their home campuses as well. In addition, the home department of the finalists will receive $10,000 to foster the development of pedagogical skills. The recipient of the Cherry Award, announced in Spring 2022, will thus receive a total of $265,000, and $35,000 for his or her home department.
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Nineteen years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, IPS Assistant Teaching Professor Colin Clarke analyzed the current threat of al Qaeda and its chief, Ayman, Al-Zawahiri -- especially in light of the opportunity it seized during the rise of the Islamic State.
IPS Senior Fellow Richard Grenell discusses the merits behind President Trump's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
"The United States must trade its rose-tinted glasses for a sober assessment of al Qaeda’s trajectory—and of the organization’s enduring ties to the Taliban." IPS Assistant Teaching Professor Colin Clarke co-authored an op-ed in Foreign Affairs analyzing Al Qaeda's resurgence.
IPS Director and Taube Professor Kiron Skinner co-authored an op-ed in The National Interest arguing for a robust response from Washington to any potential Russian action in Belarus. "Vladimir Putin should not think that he can occupy Minsk the way Brezhnev occupied Prague — but the United States should be prepared to act if he tries."
“It’s very easy to criticize people and psychologize them. But I think most people are doing the best that they can. And they are being woefully let down by both government and industry." Howard Heinz University Professor Baruch Fischhoff spoke to The Washington Post about the concept of sanitization theater.
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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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