George Washington University’s Elliott School by Estreetbeat

Martha Finnemore new Professor

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:05:31 +0000

Martha Finnemore is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on global governance, international organizations, ethics, and social theory. She is the co-author (with Michael Barnett) of Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics, which won the International Studies Association’s award for Best Book in 2006. She is also author of National Interests in International Society and The Purpose of Intervention, which won the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award as “the best book published on government, politics, or international affairs” in 2004. Her most recent book, Who Governs the Globe?, was published by Cambridge Press in 2010. Her articles have appeared in International Organization, World Politics, Annual Review of Political Science, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and elsewhere. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Brookings Institution and Stanford University, and has received fellowships or grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the United States Institute of Peace.

More infos on the GWU site.

IERES 50th Anniversary Discussion

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:43:23 +0000

The EU at the Crossroads: Political and Economic Perspectives

The Making of Europe
Theo Christov, Assistant Professor of Honors and History, GWThe Euro Crisis
Henry Farrell, Assistant Professor ofHonors and History, GWRecent and Coming Elections (France, UK, Germany)
Harvey Feigenbaum, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GW

The EU and its Neighborhood
Michael Sodaro, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GW

Financial Implications of the Euro Crisis
Sheherezade Rehman, Professor of International Business and International Affairs, GW

Migration and European Politics
Kimberly Morgan, Associate Professor of Political Science, GW

Please join us for an evening discussion with GW’s leading European scholars. The presenters will offer brief overviews of their topics and then we will open the floor for questions from the audience. The panel will examine the origins of Europe and then look at the difficult political and economic questions that call into question the future of the European Union.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
6:00-6:30 Reception
6:30-8:00 Panel Discussion
Alumni House
1918 F Street NW

RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/EUCrossroads
Sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Upcoming Events

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:17:26 +0000

Monday, November 14
U.S. Public Diplomacy and Democratization: From the Spanish Case to the Arab Spring

Monday, November 14
Nuclear Policy Talks: Project Azorian Risk vs. Gain: the CIA Attempted Recovery of a Soviet Ballistic Missile Submarine

Monday, November 14
The Kremlin and the Russian Extreme Right in the New Century: Moscow’s Anti-Western Turn under Vladimir Putin

Monday, November 14
Global Gender Forum: Women’s Assets: Why They Are Important and How to Measure Them

Monday, November 14
Why Afghanistan is Worth it: A Conversation with the Ambassador from Afghanistan, H.E. Eklil Hakimi

Tuesday, November 15
CANCELED: The New Global Consensus: Changing Values and their Impact on Approaches to Development in China, Tibet, and Africa

Tuesday, November 15
GW All Alumni Networking Night

Wednesday, November 16
Security Policy Forum: U.S. Military Interventions

Wednesday, November 16
Chinese and Japanese Investment in South and Southeast Asia: Case Studies of the Automobile and Electronics Industries

Wednesday, November 16
The Middle East Policy Forum The U.S. and the Arab Spring: An Arab Perspective

Wednesday, November 16
2011 Elliott School Faculty Book Party

Wednesday, November 16
A Night with Frank Mugisha

Thursday, November 17
Conversations with Scholars: The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Culture in Choson Korea, 1391-1910

Thursday, November 17
Finding Your Fulbright: An Info Session and Alumni Panel

Thursday, November 17
Asian Film Series: The Beginning of the Great Revial (China)

Thursday, November 17
The Jordanian Ambassador to the United States: A Discussion on U.S.-Jordan

Friday, November 18
Shadow of the Past: Diverging Views on Taiwan’s Future

Friday, November 18
Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias: A Conversation with Ariel I. Ahram

Monday, November 21
Russia’s Public Chamber: Civil Society Representation and Public Policy Decision-Making

Monday, November 21
Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries

Monday, November 21
China, Russia, and the Existing World Order: Seeking to Overthrow the Status Quo or Merely Pursuing Advantage within It?

Tuesday, November 22
Migrants in Multiethnic Slovakia: Contemporary Problems and Historical Roots

The new wave – bachelor degree online

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:56:12 +0000

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Don’t waste longer your time to find some solution, that is right for you. You can choose from nearly 250 online schools like:

.) Colorado Technical University
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.) George Washington University

You see, also our University give you the choice, to make your bachelor degree online. It not necessary to go to the university all days, monday to friday. The George Washington University is ranked in the top 35, nationalwide in the US and the online program offers:

.) education
.) management political
.) graduate schools of business

Don’t forget, The George Washington University, in Washington DC, offers the first professional school of politics, its a amazing part of the university.

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.) Master of Professional Studies in Political Management
.) Master of Professional Studies in Strategic Public Relations
.) Master of Arts in Educational Technology Leadership
.) Master of Professional Studies in Security and Safety Leadership

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.) Bachelor of Science in Police Science

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The 18th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities: Medicine, Mental Health and Childhood in Korea, Past & Present

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:39:03 +0000

Young-Shin Kim, MD, PhD, MPH, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale University Child Center

Jin-Kyung Park, PhD, University of Toronto

Sheena Nahm, PhD, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA

Roy Richard Grinker, PhD, The George Washington University

Elanah Uretsky, PhD, The George Washington University

In this colloquium, top scholars in Korean studies will focus on the history of medicine and mental health in Korea, especially in relation to reproduction and childhood. Speakers will discuss how, in the Japanese colonial period, biomedical research in Korea on reproduction and women’s health was conducted as a political tool for the empire; the role of the media in the 20th and early 21st century in decreasing the stigma of mental illness; and the growth of psychiatry, psychology, counseling, and cutting edge research on human behavior.

* Saturday, November 6, 2010
* 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
* Harry Harding Auditorium, Room 213
* 1957 E Street, NW

* Please send RSVP to: kimrenau@gwu.edu (Please include your name, affiliation, and contact information)
* Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Negotiating with Iran

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:11:32 +0000

Ambassador John Limbert, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Ambassador John Limbert, a career Foreign Service Officer, shares his extensive experience in Middle Eastern diplomacy and discusses his new book, Negotiating with Iran.

* Wednesday, October 27, 2010
* 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
* Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
* 1957 E Street, NW

* Please RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/2cs93lm
* Sponsored by the Middle East Policy Forum, which is presented with the generous support of ExxonMobil.

The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:46:19 +0000

The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

This event is part of the Trade and Development Workshop Series.

* Tuesday, October 19, 2010
* 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
* Kendrick Conference Room, Room 321
* Monroe Hall, 2115 G Street, NW

* Please send RSVP to: iiep@gwu.edu
* Sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Institute for International Economic Policy

White House

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:45:27 +0000

Ed Henry, Senior White House Correspondent, CNN

Joe Lockhart, Former White House Spokesman

The speakers will examine politics and media spin from their unique perspectives both behind and in front of the podium.

* Thursday, October 14, 2010
* 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM
* City View Room, 7th Floor
* 1957 E Street, NW

* Reception 6:15 – 6:45 PM; Program 6:45 – 8:00 PM

Sponsored by The Elliott School of International Affairs and the School of Media and Public Affairs

Ross School in NY

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:10:53 +0000

Ross Global Academy Charter School is a great school for students in grades K-8. It is opened on September 6, 2006 in the historic Tweed Courthouse as a collaboration of NYU and The Ross School. Their aim is to serves students from a variety of cultural backgrounds and with varied learning styles while cultivating each of them an engagement in life-long learning and well-being that they will carry forward throughout their lives.

What Ross Global Academy offers to the students is a holistic education to enable them to view the world as a borderless world and prepare themselves with the skills that are important for them to be successful in the 21st century.

Apart from that, Ross Global Academy teaches their students how to think critically and creatively, respect other cultures, develop leadership, using the available technology today, living a healthy live and the most important thing is to have passion for learning.

They offer a good quality and well structured global curriculum to the students to reach their leaning goals with a systematic interdisciplinary instruction by using the cultural history as their medium of instruction. The core curriculum they offer are math, literacy, science, and social studies which are collaborated with other disciplines like technology, health, and arts programs.

They also offer small class sizes of approximately 20-24 students which is a conducive learning environment. To reach the mission, they have a longer school day which is from 745am to 430pm with earlier dismissal on Friday. They have their own school uniform and code of conduct. They also encourage family involvement by organizing parent conferences from time to time.

In conclusion, Ross Global Academy is a very good school which offers a well organized curriculum in order to meet their goals with several well structured programs for students to learn in a good way.

GWU Military Program

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:44:01 +0000

The GWU (George Washington University in Washington) University of Medication and Well being Sciences (GWU/SMHS) worked since a lot of years using the United States Navy and the United States Army to supply agreement diploma programs in a selection with health care sciences areas in order to proactive responsibility military. The GWU/SMHS romantic relationship while using Navy times back again to the mid 80’s when GWU/SMHS started offering degree software in State-of-the-art Hospital Corps College, Medical Laboratory Technician, Nuclear Medication Technologies, Oral Biology, Physician Assistant, Radiologic Technologies, and Undersea Medical Technological know-how. The GWU/SMHS relationship with all the Army formally started inside the mid-1990’s with a degree program in Healthcare Laboratory Technological know-how and, later, Cytotechnology. Credits for military well being attention workout are awarded in mix with standard Military schools college credits to
construct an academic program which leads to Associates in Science, Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Wellness Sciences. A large number of soldiers and sailors have got participated in these software programs above the many years and successfully completed one or far more degree software. In current many years, the Well being Sciences programs possess continued to expand our degree choices to military personnel who possess completed prior workout in well being care fields. We have got designed specific contract choices using the Army, the Navy, as well as the Tri-Service software programs. We as well provide specific distance finding out programs leading to academic degrees for military people with preceding practice in health care fields. Well being Sciences remains committed to meeting the educative needs of the armed forces for the lengthy term.