2014-2015 THE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER OF THE Rufus Von KleinSmid Claude Buss Ross Berkes James Rosenau Jay Savage Michael Fry Gerald Bender Thomas Biersteker Celebrating SIR 90 Years Robert Friedheim 1924-2014 Jonathan Aronson Steven Lamy Laurie Brand John Odell Robert English FROM THE DIRECTOR CONTENTS SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ALUMNI NEWSLETTER EDITORS: Table of Contents A Note from the Director Linda Cole, Christina M. Gray, by Robert English, Director of the USC Dornsife’s School of International Relations Scot Macdonald ASSISTANT EDITOR: 2..... A Note from the Director Ninety Years of International Relations at USC of State. In the Summer of 2014, Mariya Korotko 3..... Students “Discover China” Program we also launched the new “Discov- NEWSLETTER DESIGN Last year in this space, I mused about why students pick er China” fellowships for Summer Pentagram international relations for a major and what I say to en- and Fall work-study trips to Hong 4..... Profile: Having the Courage to Know, Rebecca Braun courage them: the vital importance of global issues, the Kong and China. Copyright 2014 School of intellectual excitement of analyzing them, and the many • NewR SI Faculty and Research International Relations, Dornsife 6..... Learning from Alumni College of Letters Arts and professional options that follow. There’s no need to re- Recent SIR hires Joshua Aizen- Sciences, University of Southern prise that theme this year, because everybody gets it: IR man, Andrew Coe, and Carol California. All rights reserved. 7..... From Summer Abroad to Career-Launching Internship is USC’s top undergraduate major, with over 800 students. Atkinson will soon be joined by And in this, our 90th Anniversary year, our popularity and Profs. Jonathan Markowitz and The Alumni Newsletter is pub- 8..... Maymester: America’s Pacific Century lished by the School of Interna- programs only continue to grow. Pablo Barbera. And, at this writ- tional Relations, University of Instead, let me describe these sources of pride and sin- ing, we are searching for one more Southern California. This edition 9..... A Deeper Understanding: Students Learn about National Security gle out some highlights from our progress over the past new SIR faculty member--the is expected to reach over 4000 students, alumni and friends 12-18 months. Caught up in the constant demands of Erburu Chair in Ethics, Global- of the School of International 10.... Conferences and Classes our academic-administrative cycles, we don’t always step ization and Development. With Relations. back to view the big picture. When we do, we see how growing numbers of stellar faculty come increas- 11.... Learning by Doing: Glimpse from the Globe impressive that picture is and how rapidly SIR has pushed ing numbers of prizes, grants, and major research Robert English We encourage alumni to contribute news regarding into the top ranks of the nation’s schools of international projects. Just in the past three months, new books their educational and career 12..... Amy Freidheim Roundtable: Money Alone Can’t Buy Happiness relations: For example: have been published by Professors Carol Atkin- progress, published articles, • “Dornsife in DC” Washington Program Dorn- son, Laurie Brand, Brian Rathbun, Mary Sarotte, books and op-ed pieces, for 13..... New Faculty, New Locations sife College has now launched that which many future editions. and Jeffrey Fields. SIR alumni have long sought—an academic- So this is how we are celebrating our anniversary—by Please call, write, fax or email: 13..... SCIR Reaching New Heights year program that builds on our successful sum- raising our faculty, graduate and especially undergraduate Linda Cole, Associate Director mer DC courses toward the goal of a year-round, programs to new heights. Ninety years ago, the School School of International Rela- 14.... Director’s Speakers Series tions permanent base in the nation’s capital. “Dornsife was established under the leadership of Rufus von Klein- University of Southern California in DC” begins Spring 2015 with a core foreign- Smid. Now we mark this milestone not only by saluting Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043 15..... Fellowships and Awards policy focus. SIR alumnus Jeffrey Fields directs those students and faculty whose recent accomplishments phone | 213.740.2139 the program, and other SIR alumni such as Da- put SIR in the headlines, but also with a series of special fax | 213.742.0281 17..... SIR Inaugural Tickner Book Award and China Dreams email | [email protected] vid Livingston are teaching in it. And its exciting 90th-Anniversary events. web | dornsife.usc.edu/sir internship and career-building options are second One was this Fall’s awarding of the J. Ann Tickner 18..... Faculty Awards and Updates to none. Book Prize—a highly competitive new international prize SIR CONTACT INFORMATION Robert English • SCIR and Glimpse from the Globe In a very for best book in the spirit of SIR Emerita Prof. Ann Tick- Director 19.... Bookshelf short time, the Southern California International ner’s pioneering work in IR theory, whose first recipient [email protected] Review has soared into the elite ranks of the na- was Carleton University’s Fiona Robinson for The Ethics 21.... In Memoriam: Peter A. Berton; Andrew Manning tion’s top undergrad IR journals. Its student-ed- of Care. Other 90th Anniversary events include a special Linda Cole Associate Director itors are real professionals, and have made SCIR Spring-semester panel marking 25 years since the Cold [email protected] 23.... Class Notes the country’s first truly international student for- War’s end with former Ambassador to the USSR Jack eign-affairs journal with the publication of articles Matlock and Dornsife Dean’s Professor (and SIR faculty Christina M. Gray 24.... An Inside Look at Egypt’s Military submitted from around the world. Last year, some Assistant Director (Programs) member) Mary Sarotte. Later in the Spring we will also [email protected] of those editors launched Glimpse from the Globe, host leading IR scholar (and former SIR graduate student) 25.... Power Project: Akon Visits USC with ONE a foreign-affairs website that provides first-rate Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago for a Ashley Bonanno reporting and commentary by a staff of student- Distinguished Anniversary Lecture on “International Re- Internship Advisor 26.... On the Cutting Edge: Ukraine and Russia [email protected] correspondents at home and abroad—and that lations Theory and US Foreign Policy.” joins SIR students with contributors from such Please be alert for SIR as well as Dornsife College an- Katrina Miranda universities as Georgetown and Penn. nouncements on these and other 90th Anniversary events. Undergraduate Advisor • International Fellowships and Internships Ev- Please join us when you can, either in Los Angeles or [email protected] Cover shows School of International Relations Directors, top left to bottom right: ery year, SIR students take many USC’s top hon- Washington, DC, and please also consider supporting Annie Lam ors. They also earn prestigious Fulbright, FLAS, SIR—whether that be a financial gift, an internship op- Undergraduate Advisor Rufus Von KleinSmid 1924-1935; Claude Buss 1935-1949; Ross Berkes 1949-1976; James Rosenau 1976- Critical Languages, DAAD, and other interna- portunity, or simply a new idea. Above all, please join me [email protected] 1979; Jay Savage 1979-1981; Michael Fry 1981-1986; Gerald Bender 1986-1991; Thomas Biersteker 1991- tional fellowships. They study in Berlin, Brussels, in celebrating past and present faculty, staff, and especially Luda Spilewsky 1992; Robert Friedheim 1992-1995; Jonathan Aronson 1995-2001; Steven Lamy 2001-2006; Laurie Brand Valencia and Washington; they do research in students of SIR during this milestone 90th Anniversary Graduate and Undergraduate 2006-2009; John Odell 2009-2012; and Robert English 2012-. Rwanda, Havana and Singapore; and they intern year. You are our legacy, and we are hard at work burnish- Advisor in Paris, Mexico City, and at the U.S Department ing tomorrow’s legacy today. [email protected] Cover photos courtesy of University Archives and Dornsife Media. 1 SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ALUMNI NEWSLETTER 2014-2015 2 Innovation: Profile: INSPIRATION: LEARNING FROM EXPERTS Students “Discover China” Program Having the Courage to Know by Christina Gray by Rebecca Braun inequality and dispossession felt by northern Muslims far The School of International Relations at USC was founded in I’m not a journalist. I’m not sitting in on high-level meetings. from the economic and governmental centers. The Nigerian a spirit of educational innovation and path-breaking leadership. My Internet is not fast enough to allow me to do effective re- government has failed to deal with this crisis militarily. An Nine decades later, the tradition is alive and well, and the new search, so I’m not an expert on events in Central Africa. But I Economist article criticized Nigeria’s army for “losing a brutal Madam Hui Shek-Chun Discover China Scholarship program is do live in Cameroon, and I read late editions of The Economist, fight in the country’s north against Boko Haram…[and] fail- evidence of that. Time and newspaper articles sent by my wonderful Grandma, ing to stem oil thievery on a gargantuan scale in the south.” and that counts for something. What I’m saying is — DIS- The Nigerian government has also failed to tackle the The Summer 2014 Discover China scholars have submitted glow- CLAIMER — don’t take my word as gospel. Boko Haram issue on a general level, because how could the ing reports upon their return. Amira Perryman (IR, 2016) and Cameroon is surrounded by countries with problems: Ni- public support an organization that shuts down their schools, Roque Valiente (International Relations and Global Business, geria, Chad, Central African Republic (CAR), Congo, Ga- kills their neighbors, kidnaps their children, and threatens 2015) received funding through the program to intern in a Chi- bon and Equatorial Guinea.