Background
The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s
(IGCC) at the University of California, San Diego, is pleased to host
the 2008 Study of the U.S. Institute on U.S. National Security. Our
intensive, interdisciplinary program focuses on
U.S. national security policymaking and how the events of 9/11 have
altered this policy landscape and process. This program is funded through
a grant from the U.S.
Department of State’s Bureau
of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Study
of the United States Branch, which seeks to promote a better understanding
of the people,
institutions, and culture of the United States among foreign scholars
and professionals.
Each winter, IGCC and UCSD are host to eighteen distinguished foreign
scholars and professionals to examine "U.S.
National Security Policymaking in a Post-9/11 World" by focusing
on four broad thematic areas:
- Foreign Policy, National Security, and the Opinion-Forming Process;
- Terrorism and National Security;
- U.S. Foreign Policy and Regional Security, and;
- One World: Globalization, Technological Leadership, and Non-traditional
Security
A four-week academic residency at UC San Diego precedes a two-week
study tour to policy and cultural centers in California and Washington,
D.C.
Under the leadership of Dr. Susan Shirk, the program’s academic
portion features distinguished faculty and professionals from the campuses
of the UC system and from across the country, and employs an innovative
combination of lectures, freewheeling roundtables, case studies, debates,
a simulation, and community discussions to enhance interaction and
to further understanding of the diverse issues being examined. It blends
academic research and the experience of policy practitioners. The curriculum
is interdisciplinary, incorporating political science, economics, international
relations, military policy, communications, and technology policy.
A core feature of the program is the active involvement of fellows
as speakers in the formal sessions.
An essential goal of the program
is to encourage and facilitate interaction among program fellows,
UC and visiting faculty, the UCSD community,
and the broader U.S. public, with the expected result that fellows
will gain and disseminate in their home country a deeper, more sophisticated
understanding of the United States and the U.S. policymaking process.
It is also our intention that this program will help facilitate the
formation of new relationships among fellows and U.S. faculty and
professionals.
For additional
information
on the IGCC Program on U.S. National Security, contact the Program
Manager, Dr. Raymond Clark.
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