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Cover: America's Role in the World Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) has released its latest working group report, "America's Role in the World: Foreign Policy Choices for the Next President. The Report is available in pdf format.

This report identifies critical foreign policy choices that will face the next president of the United States. The working group included individuals who had worked in Republican and Democratic administrations. Unlike other reports, ISD's does not offer specific prescriptions for dealing with these issues, rather it offers a comprehensive agenda of issues that will require attention and, therefore, on which candidates in the 2008 elections should be forming views and taking positions.

ISD Issues New Report

Diplomacy and SecurityDiplomacy and Security in the Twenty-first Century, by Janne E. Nolan. Dr. Nolan, project chair, led a working group discussion of four cases of diplomatic initiatives aimed at containing problematic nuclear developments among distinct regional powers -- North Korea, India/Pakistan, Libya, and Iran -- investigating how U.S. policymakers and intelligence officials have supported (or failed to support) these efforts. [Report pdf]

Junior Fellows Applications

The application period for 2009-2010 ISD Junior Fellowships has started. This program provides BSFS and MSFS students two semesters of independent study under the direction of Institute associates and staff. Each fellowship offers three academic credits and a $3,100 tuition stipend. For additional information, click the button for Academics, then the link for Junior Fellows in Diplomacy. The fellowship announcement is available in pdf form.

Paula Newberg Appointed Director

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Dean Robert L. Gallucci announces the appointment of Paula R. Newberg as the Marshall B. Coyne Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD).

Newberg comes to ISD as a scholar and practitioner with wide-ranging experience in multilateral and nongovernmental organizations. She specializes in issues of democracy, human rights, and development in crisis and transition states, and has served as a Special Advisor to the United Nations in various regions, including multiple postings in Afghanistan. Newberg has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and held a senior associate position at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she co-founded its Democracy Project and chaired the South Asia Roundtable.

Newberg taught at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University for many years, and she publishes extensively on issues including law and constitutionalism in Pakistan, insurgency and human rights in Kashmir, and international assistance to war-torn Afghanistan. A graduate of Oberlin College, Newberg received her doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago. She succeeds Casimir A. Yost, who stepped down in 2008 after 14 years at the helm of ISD.

Since 1978, ISD has been the School of Foreign Service's link to the foreign affairs practitioner. Its resident and non-resident associates, who are U.S. and foreign government officials and other foreign affairs practitioners, are affiliated with the institute for a year or more. Institute associates teach courses, organize lectures and discussions, and mentor students at the School of Foreign Service. The institute's larger constituency is the broader academic and policy community. Publications and case studies are available online.

Burden of Strategy

Burden of StrategyIn this ISD Report, James DeHart presents three choices for the next U.S. administration on NATO enlargement. A career Foreign Service officer, Mr. DeHart was a Rusk Fellow at ISD during the 2007-08 academic year. [report]

ISD Announces the 2008-2009 Associates and Fellows

The Institute is pleased to announce the 2008-2009 class of Associates and Fellows. They hail from U.S. government agencies, Department of State, the Department of Defence -- U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Joing them are diplomats-in-residence from the People's Republic of China and Korea. Gaurav Mishra, from India, joins as the ISD Yahoo! Fellow. Biographies are provided on the ISD website.