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Effective training for future international affairs • A professor with expertise in cybersecurity leaders must ensure that students learn how to be who teaches investigative techniques, such as how adaptable, according to Professor Daniel Drezner to collect and assess open-source intelligence and at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. digital forensic artifacts Drezner quotes philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who • A professor who emphasizes teaching useful differentiated between foxes, who know a little skills: hands-on courses in strategic trade, about many things, and hedgehogs, who know evaluations of development projects, and “the new one big thing. “In dealing with crises, you want a world of artificial intelligence and fintech” lot of foxes. You need people with the intellectual • A master’s degree candidate who in her first few capacity, creativity, and flexibility to deal with the months organized a 2020–2021 event series about next crisis,” Drezner says. how to fight fake news: maintaining an independent This FP Guide tells the stories of professors, media, the challenges of disinformation and fake deans—and even a student—who are inspiring news, and strategies to tackle extremism today’s graduate students. The leaders include:

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TUFTS UNIVERSITY, THE FLETCHER SCHOOL GUIDE Understanding History and a Multidisciplinary Approach Are Key to Navigating the 21st Century

Barely a fifth of the way through the 21st NEW FAST-TRACKED MASTER IN century, we have experienced a host of GLOBAL AFFAIRS catastrophes, among them a global financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, the effects of climate Starting in the fall of 2021, Fletcher will offer change, and a devastating pandemic. a new Master in Global Affairs that can be Daniel Drezner completed in 16 months, rather than the usual Professor of That’s the context for “The End of the World two academic years. International Politics, and What Comes After,” a course that professor This intensive degree The Fletcher School, of international politics Daniel Drezner will program targets Tufts University teach next spring at The Fletcher School at students who are Tufts University. Given the multiple ready to take a challenges facing global stability, deep dive, become Drezner recommends two approaches experts in their area to properly train future leaders in inter- of specialization, and national affairs for the next 50 years. immediately pursue a career path in that First, students must learn the area. The specializa- proper perspective from history, to tions range widely, understand how catastrophes can including interna- cause systemic collapse and how tional negotiation and conflict resolution, societies can rebuild. The recent part sustainable development, and technology of history is not the only relevant policy. The new degree includes a practicum part, Drezner says. For example, and a possible summer internship for credit, the deadliest pandemic in recorded and can be taken either full-time or part-time, history was the Black Death of the 14th to allow students to simultaneously work century, estimated to have killed as and study. “You can do many as 200 million people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. However, in the 15th pretty well by and 16th centuries, Europe flourished under doing good. It the Renaissance. “In dealing with crises, you want a lot of foxes. is gratifying to You need people with the intellectual capacity, Second, students should be adaptable, by taking know that you creativity, and flexibility to deal with the next an interdisciplinary approach to issues, Drezner crisis,” Drezner says. are trying to says. He quotes philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who make the world a differentiated between foxes, who know a little Fletcher is adapting to today’s challenges, hiring better place, and about many things, and hedgehogs, who know historians and scholars in areas that are of you can often see one big thing. concern both today and also when considering the the impact you future, such as climate policy and cybersecurity. are having, in my Drezner himself has a multidisciplinary case on students, background. In addition to teaching, he has held or on the issue positions with the nonprofit Civic Education that you care Project, the RAND Corporation, and the US Department of the Treasury. He is a regular about.” contributor to The Washington Post. However, teaching and research are his true loves. Teaching “is like whitewater river rafting. When you see [students] realize where the bend in the river is about to come, it’s incredibly gratifying.”

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES GUIDE Saving Democracy, One Byte at a Time

As hacking, disinformation, and other forms of Another benefit is that information security digital espionage proliferate, educating future is a growth industry. In addition to finding leaders about information security will grow information security work rewarding, Rid says increasingly important. that his students go on to jobs in large tech firms and in government: “If you focus on information Thomas Rid The Johns Hopkins University School of security, there will be work practically guaranteed.” Professor of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) has Strategic Studies, guidance in that area from Thomas Rid, Johns Hopkins SAIS leverages the locations of its School of Advanced professor of strategic studies. Rid, who has three campuses—in Washington, DC, Europe, International Studies, shared his expertise with the governments of and China—to bring in guest speakers, virtually Johns Hopkins the United States, Germany, and the United or in person, to help students network and learn University Kingdom, is author of several books, including from leading practitioners in the field. most recently, Active Measures: The “There will be a situation where you make a Secret History of Disinformation and difference. You can come in and make informed Political Warfare. decisions at a critical moment in time—at a In the competition between company, at an agency, or in a democracy,” Rid says. democracies and autocracies, Rid says, “non-democratic governments are getting better at stealing data, at TRAINING FOR LEADERS TO destroying data, and they are getting ANALYZE HACKS CAN IMPROVE better at disinformation. Studying BOTH BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT digital conflict can help leaders defend Last summer during the pandemic, Jenna democracy in the 21st century.” Morgenstern-Gaines started a company As more of the world’s conflicts crowd that will provide telemedicine. Rid’s class on into the digital world, and internet information security was the perfect way to connections make spying even more learn how to protect accessible, future leaders need the her new company’s “There will be a hands-on training of cybersecurity medical and situation where courses. “Operating in the shadows is becoming financial data. you make a an ever more widespread phenomenon, and most Morgenstern-Gaines difference. You of the shadows are in the digital space,” Rid says. will graduate in June from a joint program can come in and Rid teaches investigative techniques such as how that will award her make informed to collect and assess open-source intelligence and an MA in interna- decisions at a digital forensic artifacts. tional relations from critical moment “What students are learning is to navigate Johns Hopkins SAIS in time—at a treacherous terrain so they can make informed and an MBA from judgments,” Rid says. Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her company, at an longer-term goal is to work in government and agency, or in a focus on information security. democracy.” She says Rid’s class helped her “develop a much more critical way of looking at cyber and information security, which is undoubtedly one of the most pressing issues for our generation of leaders.”

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS GUIDE Deep Learning, Essential Skills, Experience Keep Graduates Nimble for a Changing World

In a fast-moving world where violent conflicts To cultivate this type of intellectual flexibility in and environmental problems quickly spill its graduates, SIPA offers a combination of deep across borders, Columbia University’s School of academic learning, skills building, and applied International and Public Affairs (SIPA) prepares experiences. Students can focus on a field such Merit E. Janow its students for the range of ways they could as energy and the environment and layer it with help address such challenges. While some aim a geographic specialty, such as Africa. Every Dean, School of to enter government or multilateral institutions, student is trained in statistics and economics, International and SIPA graduates also consider many other which have become essential background skills Public Affairs, avenues, and often mix and match them. for an increasing number of fields. Columbia University “People are taking their policy “Many of these young professionals are going passions into many different fields, to be doing things we cannot know now or including the private sector, the even possibly imagine,” Janow says. “It’s really public sector, and nongovernmental important that what they’re learning is going organizations, as well as their own to give them that kind of analytical depth and entrepreneurship,” SIPA Dean Merit understanding and perspective over time, along E. Janow says. “This is not about your with skills that will keep them nimble for a great, first job. It’s about giving you the changing world.” building blocks and perspectives for a lifelong career.” EXPERIENCE, EXPERTISE, AND Janow’s own life and career have MENTORSHIP SUPERCHARGE crossed many frontiers. Raised FACULTY’S INSPIRATION AND abroad—in northeast Asia and GUIDANCE elsewhere—by parents who worked in international business, Janow became Ryan Dahm, a second-year Master of Public Administration candidate, is concentrating in a corporate lawyer. She later served “People are international security policy and specializing as deputy assistant US trade representative taking their in management. for Japan and China, before joining Columbia. A former US Army policy passions During her 25 years as a professor at both into many infantry officer, he SIPA and Columbia Law School, Janow has calls SIPA his “dream different fields, continued her international work. She headed school.” He’s been including the the first international antitrust advisory inspired by the profes- private sector, committee to the US Attorney General, served sional experience and the public on the World Trade Organization’s Appellate academic expertise Body, and remains an inaugural member of sector, and of professors such as the international advisory council for China’s Thomas Christensen, nongovernmental sovereign fund. a China scholar who organizations, as previously was deputy well as their own assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the entrepreneur- Pacific, and Stephen Sestanovich, who as ambas- ship. This is not sador-at-large in the late 1990s coordinated US policy on countries of the former Soviet Union. about your first Dahm also appreciates the mentorship of job. It’s about resident experts such as Peter Clement, a former giving you the top CIA official and Russia analyst in the agency’s building blocks Directorate of Intelligence. and perspectives for a lifelong career.” COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/admissions [email protected] 212-854-6216

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GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHAR SCHOOL OF POLICY AND GOVERNMENT GUIDE Professor Uses Technology, Culture Focus to Incorporate Practical Skills into Classroom

Professor J.P. Singh believes that economics LEARNING HOW CULTURE SHAPES and international affairs programs do ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING not always incorporate the kind of skill- building that helps foster a long-term career Student Nathan Lotze has had Schar School professors from diverse backgrounds: J.P. Singh in the field. So, the professor emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to teaching skills trade lawyers, economists, and traditional Professor of that students can use throughout their careers. academics. Each International Commerce The Master’s in International Commerce and offered “a different and Policy, Schar lens on how to view Policy program at George Mason University’s School of Policy and the forces at play in Schar School of Policy and Government, where Government, George the global economy,” Singh teaches, offers specific hands-on courses Mason University says Lotze, from in strategic trade, evaluations of development Youngstown, Ohio. projects, and “the new world of artificial intelligence and fintech.” While most of his courses focus on Singh’s own work is multidisciplinary. He traditional economic has advised the World Bank and World Trade concepts, such Organization on trade and international as markets and development, and the British Council and efficiency, Professor Singh’s class stressed the UNESCO on international cultural policies. His role of culture in the global economy. book Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy “From trade policy to technological innovation and Cultural Identity won the American Political and adoption, Professor Singh helped me Science Association’s award for best book about appreciate how culture can shape economic information technology and politics in 2012. decision-making, even when it conflicts with economic well-being,” Lotze says. “When To help train future leaders, Singh integrates studying global policy issues, I now make sure technology as a substantive part of the to incorporate the cultural qualities of people International Commerce and Policy program. involved in my analyses.” “The multidisci- One focus is how culture and technology plinary education intersect to improve the innovation and competitiveness of businesses and nations. in our Master’s For example, one of Singh’s courses studies how cultural and political institutions allow for in International how YouTube, Uber, Google, and Airbnb use trade to take place. “I am teaching how human Commerce and technology to bolster their offerings in a global beings learn to trust and collaborate with each Policy graduate service economy. other in social and economic life.” program places the Two of the program’s five core courses expose “Just as a religion might help us connect with world of finance, students to broader sociological and cultural ourselves, I’d say that a career in international trade, and interna- issues that affect international commerce. affairs helps students connect with the world in tional development Singh’s goal is to teach students to understand which they find themselves,” Singh says. against a broad The cultural focus in the program provides global backdrop, students with an understanding of “the reasons while offering there are people who feel left behind” by the specific hands-on forces of globalism and their “deep-seated courses in anxieties about the world,” Singh says. strategic trade, development GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, SCHAR SCHOOL project evaluation, OF POLICY AND GOVERNMENT and the new world https://schar.gmu.edu of artificial intelli- [email protected] gence and fintech.” 703-993-8099

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UNIVERSITY OF KENT BRUSSELS SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES GUIDE Interdisciplinarity and Transformative Experience in Brussels Lay Groundwork for Future Leaders

In a September 2020 Daily Telegraph article, PROFESSOR’S MENTORSHIP PROMPTS Becky Slack said she was starting her studies STUDENT TO PURSUE DOCTORATE IN at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of HUMAN RIGHTS LAW International Studies (BSIS) to learn how to Hazel Lincy Ebenezer, of Mussoorie, India, Jeremy Carrette fight fake news. During her short time in the school’s Political Strategy and Communication was drawn to BSIS’s Master’s in Law in Human Dean for Europe program, Slack, a master’s degree candidate from Rights Law because of her fascination with and Professor of Ripley, United Kingdom, already has organized human rights and international affairs. During Philosophy, Religion, her first week in the a 2020–2021 event series, “Politics, Power, and and Culture, program, she met Persuasion.” The series addresses timely topics Brussels School of law professor Yutaka such as maintaining an independent media, the International Studies, Arai, who encouraged University of Kent challenges of disinformation and fake news, her to pursue a strategies to tackle extremism, and doctorate. Now a effective political leadership. doctoral candidate Jeremy Carrette, dean for Europe who serves as a and professor of philosophy, religion, teaching assistant, and culture, says that BSIS supports Ebenezer says that energetic students like Slack who Arai’s support, acces- want to take initiative. “We encourage sibility, and passion for teaching have been critical to her research independence of thought and a capacity into sexual violence, women’s rights, and the to work together, but also individually, divide between India’s civil and criminal law. “I so we’re generating leaders who have never really saw a PhD as something that was the information to build the visions of available to me, but Professor Arai helped me the future.” envision it for myself,” she says. “Interdisciplinarity is at the heart of our mission to educate leaders for the next 50 years who have an BSIS works closely with the university’s School “Interdisciplinarity open mind to the interconnections of of Politics and International Relations and Kent is at the heart of knowledge,” Carrette says. “Courses are taught Law School to offer multidisciplinary classes to by some of the sharpest minds in academia, as students, who select both primary and secondary our mission to well as practitioners who are working in their specializations. BSIS also offers students educate leaders disciplines as these areas are developing.” opportunities for internships, research, and for the next 50 networking at the European Union and NATO years who have and at legal, lobbying, political, and policymaking an open mind Becky Slack agencies in culturally diverse Brussels—the to the intercon- BSIS student and organizer of the event de facto capital of Europe. nections of series, “Politics, Power, and Persuasion.” Carrette says that experience is key to the knowledge. “leadership of the future, which is about Courses are taught your capacity to absorb and engage a set of by some of the complex relationships and to transform in your environment.” sharpest minds in academia, as well BSIS builds on the energy, passion for social as practitioners justice, and knowledge of digital communication that students bring to the school, he says. “Our who are working students represent a new kind of citizen and a in their disciplines new kind of future leader.” as these areas are developing.” UNIVERSITY OF KENT, BRUSSELS SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES https://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels [email protected] +32 2-641-1721

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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY THUNDERBIRD SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT GUIDE Creating Global Leaders for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Take a virtual tour through the new STOPPING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 headquarters of Thunderbird School of Global IN GUINEA Management at Arizona State University, and the educational philosophy becomes clear. The Republic of Guinea has 12.4 million people, yet COVID-19 deaths totaled only 75 by mid- Sanjeev Khagram A circular theater ringed by screens will allow November. Part of that is due to the work of Dean and Director direct communication with 14 Thunderbird Mamadou Diallo, General, Thunderbird offices worldwide, from Geneva and Jakarta economic counselor School of Global to Dubai and Nairobi, with plans for six more to Guinea’s US Management, hubs by 2025. There are also banks of tabletop embassy and a 2020 Arizona State computers and a massive holographic globe. Up Thunderbird graduate. University on the rooftop, there is a pub. Diallo, who completed the Executive Master “Our goal is to be the most global of Global Affairs and and digital school in the world,” says Management program, Sanjeev Khagram, dean and director led the team that general. “Everything we do is to try designed Guinea’s to transition every single student into tracking model, which a global leader. We want them to be reduced the spread of the virus. future-ready.” Khagram says Diallo is the perfect example At Thunderbird, that goal means of the school’s global and digital philosophy ready to manage the Fourth Industrial at work. Revolution, the tectonic changes “We take an amazing mid-career professional brought about by artificial intelligence, and give them a toolkit,” Khagram says. “It’s nanotechnology, genetic engineering, so exciting to see how the experience really and other breakthroughs. Khagram transforms students.” says this preparation requires both special skills and a change in outlook. “Every student “Every student needs a digital, global mindset,” Since then, Thunderbird has graduated more needs a digital, he says. “It enables students to be comfortable than 45,000 alumni, and the opening of global mindset. in the most uncomfortable circumstances, to be the new building in 2021 will mark its 75th It enables agile and able to pivot and to work in teams of anniversary. The school merged with Arizona students to be all kinds.” State University in 2015, and Thunderbird is now home to more than 1,200 undergraduate comfortable At Thunderbird, that philosophy runs deep. and graduate students, half of them from other in the most It was founded in 1946 on a former military countries. With customizable degree programs, uncomfortable air base in Arizona as a school dedicated to courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and circumstances, international trade and global relations. Early executive levels, and an internship rate that tops students lived in barracks and gathered at to be agile and 95 percent, the school produces graduates who the on-base pub (the rooftop facility is a nod able to pivot and work around the world. to tradition). to work in teams “Students are in the digital and global culture of all kinds.” from day one,” Khagram says.

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