SPONSORED SECTION Graduate School Forum Showcase: International Affairs in an Age of Global Crises rom the pandemic to the protests to the presidential election, recent events demonstrate Fthat leaders need to be ready for anything. The policy choices they make matter. While no one can account for every possibility, of policymaking. Ask how the program tries to mastering the elements of international affairs anticipate changes in the way people will work and and policy prepares future leaders for such crucial live in the future. Look at how they bring emerging moments. voices into the conversation. Discover in what ways Training in international affairs and policy students challenge traditional ideas and formulate develops the ability to recognize the cultural, new ones. Examine how the school works to cultivate economic, social, and political forces at work in leadership qualities in students, as well as skills. the world. It challenges students to build com- Adaptability and contingency planning are vital munication, leadership, and teamwork skills. to a global career. International affairs graduates An interdisciplinary curriculum and a diverse master underlying principles of an ever-changing community of people integrate differing ideas. world to prepare for the future—whatever it holds. Graduates distinguish themselves by their flex- ibility and adaptability. They can separate facts By Carmen Iezzi Mezzera from opinions. Executive Director As you begin your search for a master’s program, Association of Professional Schools of International consider how schools look at the future of inter- Affairs (@apsiainfo) national cooperation and emerging mechanisms ForeignAffairs.com/GraduateSchoolForum SPONSORED SECTION Contents American University UC San Diego School of International Service (SIS) ......... 4 School of Global Policy and Strategy ......... 9 Cooperation in Crisis Dangerously Divided: A Look at Racial Tamar Gutner Disparity in the United States Zoltan L. Hajnal NYU School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs ...................... 5 Georgetown University Preparing Global Affairs Leaders to Address an Walsh School of Foreign Service .............. 10 Uncertain Future The Walsh School of Foreign Service: Carolyn Kissane Leading at a Moment of Global Challenge Joel S. Hellman Seton Hall University School of Diplomacy and Waseda University International Relations. 6 Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies ..... 11 Navigating the New World Order Requires The Asia-Pacific and Leadership in a Expertise in Global Health and Security Post-Pandemic World Yanzhong Huang David Leheny University of Kent University of Notre Dame Brussels School of International Studies ...... 7 Keough School of Global Affairs .............. 12 Advanced International Studies in the Creative Global Education and Engagement Capital of Europe with Leading Academics Tracy Kijewski-Correa and Steve Reifenberg and Experienced Practitioners Jeremy Carrette Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship Texas A&M University and Public Affairs ............................. 13 The Bush School of Government Principled Leadership in Uncertain Times and Public Service ............................. 8 Michael J. Williams Training in Comparative and Rigorous Analysis for an Interconnected, Changing World Jessica Gottlieb Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies .......................... 14 The Changing World of International Affairs Narges Bajoghli 2 SPONSORED SECTION IE School of Global and Public Affairs ........ 15 Tufts University Training the World’s Future Leaders Alongside The Fletcher School ........................... 20 Prestigious Global Partners Interdisciplinarity and Crisis Management Susana Malcorra Rachel Kyte Fordham University Stanford University Graduate Program in International Ford Dorsey Master’s in Political Economy and Development ......... 16 International Policy ........................... 21 Understanding Global Economic Issues Preparing Leaders to Be Effective in Changing Through an Interdisciplinary Lens and Uncertain Times Henry Schwalbenberg Francis Fukuyama Princeton University The George Washington University Princeton School of Public and Elliott School of International Affairs ........ 22 International Affairs ........................... 17 The Elliott School Welcomed Me Princeton in Service to the Nation and Humanity Nobuko Maybin Eric Johnson and Ken Sofer University of Washington Thunderbird School of Global Management The Henry M. Jackson School of Arizona State University ...................... 18 International Studies .......................... 23 Global Leadership for the Making a World of Difference in Uncertain Times Fourth Industrial Revolution Leela Fernandes Sanjeev Khagram Public Policy and International Affairs Diplomatic Academy of Vienna Program (PPIA) ................................ 24 Vienna School of International Studies ...... 19 Training the Next Generation of Policy Leaders: Fostering International Cooperation in A Discussion about PPIA Times of Multiple Crises Gilbert Collins Patrick Müller 3 SPONSORED SECTION Tamar Gutner SIS Professor Director, Online Master of Arts in International Relations School of International Service American University Cooperation in Crisis How does American University’s School The School of International Service is constantly of International Service (SIS) view adapting. Our students benefit from an interdisciplinary international cooperation? faculty of over 120 professors, ranging from theorists In 1944, at the end of the Bretton Woods Conference who help us to understand broad patterns and larger establishing the International Monetary Fund and the perspectives to practitioner-scholars who have advised, World Bank, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau devised, and implemented policy. All work to keep an Jr, gave a closing address that resonates today. “There is a environment of inclusivity foremost in the curriculum curious notion” that people from different countries cannot and in the classroom teaching and learning experience. work together without sacrificing their national interests, Students can learn leadership skills from a history class or Morgenthau said. He argued that the negotiators recognized a class that examines institutions of foreign policy-making. the opposite: “… the wisest and most effective way to They can take a class that teaches negotiation techniques, protect our national interests is through international monitoring and evaluation strategies, and intercultural cooperation.” communication skills. They can take part in a practicum Schools such as SIS were created to prepare students where student teams partner with outside organizations. to become leaders in an uncertain world, where complex They can even take advantage of all of these options problems do not respect national boundaries. Our mission through an online degree program. is no less important today than it was decades ago. As policy-making adapts to a post-pandemic What skills are needed to help students world, and we all struggle to discern the prepare to manage global crises in evolving roles of institutions, what can we uncertain times? How does SIS instill these not afford to forget? qualities in students? The role of international cooperation has never been more Students at SIS learn how to think, analyze, question, vital. The pandemic has produced sealed borders, set understand, and act. They learn ethical perspectives that back globalization, and increased instability worldwide. will guide them as they become citizens—and leaders—of We cannot even be sure about all the ripple effects it will the world. These fundamental skills are as essential today trigger. We can be sure that global leaders are essential. as they ever were. Leaders must be nimble, be capable of Morgenthau’s advice should not be forgotten: “To seek the responding to the unexpected, and hold a vision of what achievement of our aims separately through the planless, the future might look like and ideas on how to get there. senseless rivalry that divided us in the past, or through the The issues may change over time, and some are more outright economic aggression which turned neighbors complex than others, but fundamental skills are always into enemies, would be to invite ruin again upon us all.” applicable. Our students also learn many other types of skills from their courses and skills institutes. These can include data visualization techniques, strategic planning, grant writing, and research methods. 4 american.edu/sis | [email protected] | 202.885.1646 SPONSORED SECTION Carolyn Kissane Academic Director and Clinical Professor NYU School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs Preparing Global Affairs Leaders to Address an Uncertain Future he NYU School of Professional Studies Center for building our energy, climate security, and sustainability TGlobal Affairs (CGA), was launched 15 years ago to offerings in response to the climate emergency and address new and emerging global challenges. CGA offers the need for a cleaner and more decarbonized energy dynamic and innovative curricula that provides students transition. with the knowledge, skills, and network to thrive in an At the CGA, we work together as a faculty and as a uncertain world. Its flagship, MS in Global Affairs, was team to address racism and the ways in which we can work among the first programs of its kind to address global towards social justice. The Black Lives Matter movement challenges