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Students participating in the Advanced Certificate in Inequality Analysis program visited the CEU campus for a series of lectures and classes, including an address by Dimitri Papadimitriou.

Bard College Dean of International Studies and BGIA Academic Director James Ketterer discusses the possibility of an agreement with the Taliban and a drawdown of U.S. troops.

“Despite growing interest and investment, countering unmanned aircraft remains a significant challenge given ... the rapid evolution of drone technology.”

Two Bard College students were awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State. Getzamany Correa, a Global and International Studies major, will be studying at Central European University in the Department of International Relations in Budapest, Hungary. Biology major Elizabeth Thomas will be studying at the University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, Netherlands. Correa and Thomas are two of 844 American undergraduate students from 335 colleges and universities across the United States to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the spring of 2019.

The Congressionally funded Gilman Program broadens the U.S. student population studying and interning abroad by providing scholarships to outstanding undergraduate Pell Grant recipients who, due to financial constraints, might not otherwise study abroad. Since the program’s establishment in 2001, over 1,300 U.S. institutions have sent more than 28,000 Gilman scholars who represent the rich diversity of the United States to 145 countries around the globe.

“The Gilman Program aims to make study abroad, and its career advantages, more accessible and inclusive for American students. These diverse American students gain critical skills overseas that expand their career options and ability to make an impact in their home communities,” said Heidi Manley, the Chief of USA Study Abroad at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  She notes that the program particularly focuses on supporting first-generation college students, students in the STEM fields, ethnic and racial minority students, students with disabilities, students who are veterans, students attending community colleges and minority serving institutions, and other populations underrepresented in study abroad, as well as broadening the destinations where scholars study or intern.

The Gilman Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
 

Two Bard College students were awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State. Getzamany Correa, a Global and International Studies major, will be studying at Central European University in the Department of International Relations in Budapest, Hungary. Biology major Elizabeth Thomas will be studying at the University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, Netherlands. 

Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, and the Wall Street Journal’s Global View columnist. He is the author of several books: Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001), winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize and nominated for the 2002 Arthur Ross Book Award; Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (2004); and God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (2008). He is a contributing editor to and writer on international affairs for the Los Angeles Times; he also writes articles, book reviews, and op-ed pieces for Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and other magazines and newspapers. Mead was a finalist for the National Magazine Award (essays and criticism) in 1997, and was a President’s Fellow of the World Policy Institute at The New School from 1987 to 1997. In 2012, the Foreign Policy Research Institute awarded him its Benjamin Franklin Prize for his work in the field of American foreign policy. Mead is a founding board member of New America, and also serves on the board of Freedom House.

A leader in liberal internationalism is about to turn its back on the world, writes Professor of Political Studies Omar Encarnación.

Professor Tcherneva explains Modern Monetary Theory and writes that PAYGO is based on a fallacy: “Government funding is voted into existence every time Congress appropriates a budget.”

The justices will consider a number of Donald Trump’s most controversial policies, including the rollback of DACA, the asylum ban, and the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 census.