Rose Gottemoeller Takes Office as NATO Deputy Secretary General
Elliott School alumna Rose Gottemoeller (MA '81) took up her post as NATO’s Deputy Secretary General – the Alliance’s second most senior international civil servant – on Monday, October 17, 2016....
Duke Kunshan Accepting Applications for Professional Degree in Environmental Policy
Duke Kunshan University is accepting applications for a new international master’s degree in environmental policy (IMEP) which will begin in the fall of 2017....
University of Pittsburgh Professor Authors New book on Cyber Security
Prof. Phil Williams is a leading authority on international organized crime....
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The South China Sea Decision and "protecting room for peaceful negotiation"
This July—a week after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued what John Ciorciari called “a sweeping repudiation of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea,” Ciorciari wrote an op-ed for China-US Focus titled, “Reverberations of the South China Sea Decision.”...
Washington Monthly Names UC San Diego the Nation’s No. 1 Public University
Campus also ranked the 13th in the region for offering students the ‘best bang for the buck’...
School of Global Policy and Strategy Launches New Master of Chinese Economic and Political Affairs
The School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego will now offer a Master of Chinese Economic and Political Affairs, solidifying it as one of the premier locations to gain expertise in China and United States-China relations....
UC San Diego Named World’s 14th Best University for Fourth Consecutive Year
Rankings cement UC San Diego’s standing as a global academic powerhouse...
China 21 podcast tackles US-China trends in candid fashion
GPS’s 21st Century China Program began a new podcast that features conversations between top policymakers and academics...
Penn State Professor McClennen on 'how the media—yet again—botched the election'
The challenges to keeping politics focused on facts rather than superficialities has a long history, but it would be fair to say that our current election has favored gossip over substance in wholly new ways....
Penn State SIA director’s research among most cited in four leading journals
Articles by Scott Sigmund Gartner, director of the Penn State School of International Affairs, are presently listed among the most-cited papers in four of the top international affairs journals....
Professor Leverett: What's really at stake in South China Sea ruling against China
This week’s ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration endorsing the Philippines’ claim that China’s interpretations of South China Sea maritime boundaries violate the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is being hailed in Washington as a salutary exercise in rules-based international governance—and as validation for resolute U.S. policy. But conversations with Chinese academics, analysts, and officials suggest that the outcome may trigger backlash....