A Warm Welcome
SIR is delighted to welcome our newest chapters: State University of New York, Oneonta and The University of California, Berkeley!
Q&A with Senior NATO Leader
Atlantic-community.org is the Open Think Tank on Foreign Policy with more than 7000 members. After the positive response from their previous Q&A session on “Women, Peace, and Security” with Ambassador Grabar-Kitarovic, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, they are now accepting questions for their next Q&A session about ”Security Despite Austerity” with Adrian Kendry, NATO’s Senior Defense Economist. If you or …
Passing of William Olson, Founder of Sigma Iota Rho
Dr. William Clinton Olson, Noted Author, Educator, And University Administrator, Dies at 92 By Peter M. Olson NATO Legal Advisor and principal legal adviser to the Secretary General and the NATO civilian headquarters in Brussels William C. Olson, of Gaithersburg, MD, passed away peacefully after a long illness at home on Friday October 26, 2012, surrounded by his family. …
Global Security Risk Project
Would you like to read what the University of California’s students of Global Security Risks would say about a current or future risk to international relations? These students are trained to analyse risks to international security from root causes, to assess risks, and to control risks, from the international (diplomatic) level down to the operational and site/physical, from natural hazards …
Korean Studies and International Relations
President of SIR, Dr. Frank Plantan, was recently invited to speak about Korean Studies and IR on the television program Higher Education Today with Steve Goodman. The video can be accessed via www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0JuBV11VI or by clicking here.
Opportunity for students in Asia and US
Carnegie Council’s Trans-Pacific Student Contest, “Ethics for a Connected World” September 6, 2012 Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its first Trans-Pacific Student Contest, a unique experiment in U.S.-Asia collaboration. The contest is part of Ethics for a Connected World, a three-year global education project to mark the Council’s 2014 Centennial. Winners will receive a trip to New York City. The contest …
SIR Member Publication
Congratulations are due to Ms. Marwa Ibrahim – recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, Epsilon Chapter of SIR – for her accomplishment of being published. An abridged version of her thesis will be featured in forthcoming issue of The Chronicles, the periodic publication of American University Cairo’s Economic and Business History Research Center (EBHRC). The Chronicles is accessible with the following link: http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/ebhrc/publications/Pages/TheChronicles.aspx. …
2012 Foreign Affairs Essay Contest
Sponsored by APSIA – The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs Foreign Affairs publishes articles by today’s leaders and thinkers that tackle the most pressing issues in international relations. We want to give tomorrow’s leaders the opportunity to demonstrate innovative thinking on the issues that shape their world. In the third annual Foreign Affairs Essay contest, one undergraduate’s essay …
