BRIEFING

• Message from the Dean
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• The Elliott School had another terrific year in 2006. One of our main academic initiatives is our new M.A. program in Middle East Studies, which the GW Board of Trustees approved at its meeting in May 2006.
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• Faculty Notes
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• Joanna Spear Associate Professor of International Affairs, has been named the new Director of the Security Policy Studies Program.
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• Alumni Notes
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• Randall Fort (BA ’78) was nominated by President Bush in June 2006 to be the new assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research at the Department of State.
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• Past Events
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• On November 20, the GW Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program hosted Ambassador Gustavo Guzman from Bolivia who spoke about Bolivia’s Cultural and Democratic Reform. The lecture, delivered in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English, was co-sponsored by the Elliott School’s Ambassadors Forum, the Center for Latin American Issues and the Washington Office on Latin America.
• On October 26, Elliott School experts Kirk Larsen, Mike Mochizuki and David Shambaugh participated in a panel discussion entitled “Dealing with Nuclear North Korea: Views from Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo.” Sponsored by the Masters in International Affairs Program and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and moderated by Ambassador Karl Inderfurth, the program before a standing room only audience focused on UN Resolution 1718 and the reaction and policies of North Korea’s neighbors.
• On October 17, Ambassador Charles L. Pritchard, president of the Korean Economic Institute, delivered a lecture titled “Nuclear North Korea: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It.” Pritchard served as ambassador and special envoy for negotiations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and U.S. representative to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization in the administration of President George W. Bush from April 2001 until September 2003.
• On October 12, Adam Hochschild delivered the annual Elliott School lecture for recipients of the Lionel Gelber Book Prize. Hochschild’s book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, which won the 2006 Gelber Prize, covers the British struggle to abolish slavery. He is the first repeat winner of the Gelber Prize, having first won it in 1999 for King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. The Gelber Prize was established in 1989 to promote public debate on global issues by expanding the readership of important non-fiction books on international affairs.
• On September 20, John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs, delivered a faculty lecture titled “Outer Space: The Next Frontier for International Affairs.” Logsdon discussed how space activities directly relate to superpower competition, national security, military power, economics and institution-building.

In this Fall/Winter issue:

The Elliott School Strengthens Middle East Studies Nathan Brown to Direct B.A. and M.A. Programs. More...

Elliott School Spotlights Distinguished Women in International Affairs Paula Dobriansky and Dana Priest Featured. More...

Elizabeth Chacko Named 2006 District of Columbia Professor of the Year More...

Alumni Profile: International Council Chairwoman, Diana Henriques, Publishes Major New York Times Series on Church-State Relations More...

Highlights

Amb. John Miller, expert in human trafficking, joins the Elliott School in January as a research professor of international affairs. More...
Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian to join as a visiting scholar. More...
IERES wins a $50,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for its Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research. More...

Presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan Address GW Audiences

In September 2006, The George Washington University hosted Presidents Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. Their visits to campus, occurring within a few days of each other, focused on the challenges of democracy building, economic development and terrorism. More...

Academic Advising Upgrades Services

The Office of Academic Advising and Student Services continues to improve its services for the Elliott School’s 2,700 students. More...

China Policy Program Co-sponsors Conferences on China and Europe

The Elliott School’s China Policy Program partnered with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the Institute of European Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to convene a conference on “China & Europe: Integrating Continental Powers” in Berlin last summer
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