Global Development Program

Program Overview
The Global Security & Development Program (GSDP) seeks to enhance participants' understanding of the issues, institutions and procedures involved in security & development, and to build professional skills needed for career opportunities. In a period of rapid global change, national/international security and emerging markets/developing nations are central economic and political concerns. The GSDP will deal with the conceptual, policy and practical dimensions through a combination of courses and supervised internships.

The program will help participants to:
(1) analyze the several broad elements of globalization that will affect security, emerging markets and developing countries;
(2) gain knowledge of rules, procedures, policies, institutional approaches through contacts with officials and experts in national/international security, trade/investment, and economic development and/or officials and experts in conflict resolution, transitional justice and support for democratization;
(3) build professional skills through supervised internships, and
(4) network for career opportunities through course work, internships, and related meetings organized for the class as well as personal contacts facilitated by the program.

Seminar Component
Courses will be offered jointly by the International Relations Program of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh, and the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver. All courses will take place at Syracuse University's Paul Greenberg House in Washington, DC from 6:00pm - 8:45pm, except Zimmerman's Proliferation Issues course which will meet from 5:00pm - 7:00pm. In addition, a Distance Learning course taught by John Mathiason, International Public and NGO Management, is also available (contact Maxwell's IR Program for more information).

Fall 2008 course schedules and descriptions are given below. See 2007 course descriptions and syllabi which will be updated for 2008 soon, if they haven't been updated already. Please note that these schedules are tentative and may be changed later - more information coming soon.

Defense Challenges for the 21st Century
2007 Course Syllabus
U.S. national security strategy and policy face great challenges in the 21st century. Political, military, legal, and economic factors will affect both strategy and policy. This course will assess those factors and their effects on possible solutions to those challenges. The course approaches national security from both military and government-wide prospectives and addresses the executive branch, the congressional, and the global environments.
The professor will emphasize a practitioner's approach to issues and will use lectures, readings and original source documents, class discussions, and guest speakers from the national security community. Students will deliver short written papers, mostly in the form of one-page memos, and will undertake group assignments leading to oral class presentations. The primary focus is on contemporary issues and events, but the instructive value of history is also prominent throughout the course. For students who wish to take this course, prior knowledge of or study in national security is strongly recommended but not required. This course will help students with foreign policy and security studies concentrations prepare for the evolution and challenges of coming years.
This course will be taught by James Keagle. Click here for bio of Keagle. A course syllabus will be posted soon.
IRP 715 Section M006, Class #: 18470

Financial Issues in Development New course!
Syllabus Coming Soon
This course will focus on issues related to global financial stability and regulation, the evolving role of the International Financial Institutions and selected issues with high importance for global financial relations, including food security, and energy availability. Although this is a policy course, students should expect to learn a good deal of economics and finance in the process of learning about these development problems and policies. These will be important intellectual tools as the future policy discussions on development will likely continue to focus more and more on finance and thus require more knowledge of finance than in the past. This course will be less narrowly technical, more policy oriented, bordering on political economy, but nonetheless appropriate for students concentrating in global markets, development, finance and trade.
More information coming soon. Adjunct Professor TBA
IRP 715 Section M001, Class#:14740

Proliferation Issues New course!
Syllabus Coming Soon
This course will be taught by Peter Zimmerman, the former Chair of Science & Security in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London and Director of the KCL Centre for Science & Security Studies. Before moving to London, he served as the Chief Scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Democratic Chief Scientist. His responsibilities at the Senate included nuclear testing, nuclear arms control, cooperative threat reduction and bioterrorism. Click here for a brief bio of Dr. Zimmerman.
This seminar will focus on nuclear proliferation, both in terms of traditional great power efforts to reduce stockpiles, and the dangers of terrorists obtaining fissile materials or actual bombs. The course will also touch on bio-chemical weapons. This course would appeal to students seeking careers in foreign policy, national security, intelligence and related fields.
More information and a syllabus will be posted soon.
IRP 715 Section M003, Class#:14875

Achieving the Millennium Goals: Progress and Challenges (working title) New course!
Syllabus Coming Soon
Taught by Melinda Kimble, Senior Vice President at the UN Foundation in DC, this course will focus on fostering the United Nations' millennium goals, including such issues as health, population, gender, and the environment as they relate to development, conflict resolution, humanitarian relief and social change. The seminar will bring in practitioners, policy makers and foundation/NGO/IGO experts to meet with the students, and include a mix of team and individual projects to help build professional skills. This course would be valuable to those interested in the so-called global issues, including public health and population, the environment, conflict resolution, and in the role of IGOs and NGOs
As a Foreign Service Officer and senior official in the Department of State and in her current role at the Foundation, Ms. Kimble has dealt with this mix of concerns in diverse ways. She has practical and policy experience, and in-depth knowledge of the roles and relations of the UN, its independent agencies, related NGOs, foundations and the U.S. Government. Click here for a brief bio of Melinda Kimble.
More information and a syllabus will be posted soon.
IRP 715 Section M009, Class#: 25116

Global Development Policy and Practice
2006 Draft Syllabus
This course will be taught by Janet Ballantyne and Frank Young. Ms. Ballantyne has retired from her position as Vice President and Leader for Strategic Planning and New Business Development at Abt Associates, Inc., a major non-governmental global development project management and consulting firm, and is back at USAID as a senior advisor to Henrietta H. Fore, the new Administrator/Deputy Secretary of State. Frank Young is Vice President for Strategic Planning for Abt Associates Inc.’s International Line of Business, specializing in economic growth markets and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The course will cover a range of issues related to major development challenges ranging from debt forgiveness and the Millennium Challenge goals, to health impacts on development, the problems of corruption and the lack of transparency, financial strategies, prioritization of development goals and long-term planning, the roles and relationships of national-level development agencies, donor governments, international financial institutions, trans-national NGOs and private business. This course will be especially valuable for those considering careers in U.S. government development agencies or those of other governments, in IFIs, UN agencies, and in non-governmental organizations involved with development. Syllabus will be posted soon. Click here to view a brief bio of Mr. Young.
IRP 715 Section M005, Class#: 15033

Trade and Economic Negotiation New Course!
2008 DRAFT Course Syllabus
This course, taught by Eliza Patterson, an international trade attorney and former adviser to the GATT and Overseas Development Council, centers on a major trade or economic negotiation simulation. Through varied case studies, special exercises, and with the assistance of trade experts, the seminar exposes the class to major issues, contending positions and values at play internationally. The course is particularly useful for those considering careers in international trade, business, markets and finance. Ms. Patterson, a JD with wide experience as an adviser to the GATT and the ODC, has served as international affairs adviser to the NY-NJ Port Authority.
IRP 715 Section M002, Class#: 14825

Post-Conflict Reconstruction - Section 1
2007 Course Syllabus
This seminar will cover a range of dilemmas for the U.S. government and other governments and non-state actors in responding to the need for stabilization and reconstruction of nations or regions in conflict. This will include issues of peacekeeping, transitional justice, economic development, and nation building. This section, with comparative treatment on a global basis, will be taught by Stephen Lennon, a practitioner in post-conflict political transition and stability operations. Mr. Lennon is the Asian/Near East Team Leader for the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI), and currently oversees OTI transition programs in Pakistan, Lebanon, and

Nepal

. In an era of preventative war, terrorism and aggressive peacemaking, how stability and peace are consolidated after violent conflict is particularly important to understand. War-to-peace transitions are intense, complex events where political, social and economic reference points are in continual motion. Intervening states often enter transition environments dangerously naïve to the difficulties of these settings – and dangerously unprepared to provide constructive assistance. Yet at no other time in history have the post conflict transition skills of western assistance organizations been in such demand. And at no other time have the weaknesses of the enterprise been so evident. Students in this course will acquire the skills that are necessary to understand, navigate and pursue a career that requires work with post-conflict transition environments. There will be a special emphasis on practical knowledge that will be useful to students continuing or anticipating work in the field. This will be framed with reference to the dominant literature and debates about the future of post-conflict intervention. The course is appropriate for current and aspiring professionals in the military, diplomatic corps, academia, development and humanitarian communities. Click here to view a brief bio of Mr. Lennon.
IRP 715 Section M007, Class#: 17489

Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Spotlight on Africa - Section 2
2007 Syllabus
A second section of this course will be offered, and will focus on issues and dilemmas of post-conflict reconstruction in Africa, with some comparisons with cases in other regions. A brief description of this section is given below:
Conflict Mitigation and Development Promotion in Africa's Fragile States:
Lessons and Prospects
This course will examine the tradeoffs involved for a donor in allocating scarce resources those African countries referred to as “fragile states.” We will examine this from the standpoints of bilateral and multilateral donors or UN operating units in a developing country, and will also examine alternative positions from the standpoint of nongovernmental actors. Are there promising approaches that donors can adopt to reduce conflict and promote development, even in countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, and Burundi? If so, what do we know about lessons learned and best practices?
This course will focus on real world alternatives, looking at resource distributions as they presently exist. What are the tradeoffs, and how do these play out with differential pressures from donor headquarters, from within the country, and elsewhere? How great is the divide between how donor resources should be – and how they actually are – allocated? In this context, we will also discuss donor coordination, sector-wide approaches (SWAPs), and the effect of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and its accompanying process in ensuring more coordination and better development outcomes (or not).
The methodology of this course is to examine specific countries and issues both across and within sectors, such as health and economic growth. The goal of this course is to present you with the issues that on-the-ground agency heads face in developing countries today and the decisions that they make, thereby providing a practical basis for how to think through such issues. The overall structure of the seminar appears in the readings section below, but the specific emphasis of the class will be developed during the first session according to the interests of participants.
This course is being taught by Tony Gambino, former mission director for USAID in the Congo. More information, including a 2008 syllabus, will be posted online shortly.
IRP 715 Section M008, Class#: 17490

Internship Component
IRP 715 Section M004, Class#: 14885

Students can earn up to three credits working (usually unpaid) as an intern for an agency or organization that focuses on issues of global development or global security.

This course will be led by Michael Schneider, Ph. D. in International Studies (School of International Service, American University), who is currently the Director, Maxwell-Washington International Relations Programs. The Global Internship requires consent of the International Relations Program.

Work Authorization for International Students - please read!!!!

It is critical that international students on an F1 or J1 visa work with representatives at the Slutzker Center for International Services (SCIS) to obtain work authorization prior to leaving campus.

Obtaining work authorization is the responsibility of the student (that means YOU!) and not the responsibility of SCIS or the IR program. If you do not take this responsibility seriously you will jeopardize your immigration status.

For more information on work authorization for students on an F-1 or J-1 visa, please visit:
http://international.syr.edu/practical_training.htm

Fall 2007 Global Security & Development Program Team - Congratulations!!!!
Francesca Alesi, Foundation for Middle East Peace and the Middle East Institute
Sonia Arenaza, ACCION International
Kirsten Bontrager, USAID
Sean Bowditch, National Public Radio, All Things Considered
Sara Buyuk, Committee on Homeland Security
Shoshana Cohen, National Geographic Society
Todd Fine, Center for Defense Information
Joshua Hedges, Fund for Peace
Brian Kaper, Marine Intelligence Agency
Suprita Kudesia, Citizens for Global Solutions
Christopher Mulkins, U.S. Department of State, Legislative Affairs Bureau
Manuel Pauser, Hill & Knowlton
Bradley Pope, Fund for Peace
Sumithra Rajendra, CSIS
Maria Redini, World Bank
Kunsang Rinzin, International Campaign for Tibet
Beatriz Robles, TBA
O'Brien Simasiku, Abt Associates
Lawren Sinnema, EcoVentures Internaitonal
Andrew Sweet, International Crisis Group
Adam Tewell, Center for International Private Enterprise & the US Dept. of HHS
Carlos Torres Jimenez, International Republican Institute, Latin American Affairs Division
Luyao Wang, US-China Business Council
Michelle Wende, US Environmental Protection Agency

Fall 2004 Global Development Program Team:
       Larissa Davis - Dept, of State, Bureau of Int'l Org Affairs,
           Office of UN Political Affairs
       Brent Eastman - Department of State, Bureau for Nonproliferation
       Marco Kirby - Lasa Monroig & Veve, Attorneys at Law
       Michelle Koscielski - Global Ageing Initiative, CSIS &
           Overseas Private Investment Corporation
       Marco Konings - Search for Common Ground
       Megumi Makisaka - Polaris Project
       Tomas Mandl - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and
            U.S. Food and Drug Administration
       Sonya Reines - Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy & Search for Common Ground
       Paul Yoo - Global Giving
     Welcome Fall 2004 GSPIA Colleagues: Jaime Andres Garron; Gohar Ghantarchyan; Kyle R Lamborn; Luciano S Lima; Alok Nepal; Andrew J Whalen; Jessica A Robinson; David J Grimes; and Bryan Mazzolini

     Fall 2003 Global Development Program Team select Maxwell student internships:
       Edgar Hutte - CATO Institute
       Sarah Ishaque - World Bank
       Mana Takasugi - Search for Common Ground (Read internship report)
       Hyobin Lee - Development Gap
       Chaula Kothari - Monterrey Institute, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
            -continued on at Ashoka (Read internship report from position at Ashoka)
       Missy Rock - Center for Economic & Policy Research
       Arumi Kim - Department of State
       Maira Vaca - Center for Strategic and International Studies
       Mariah Preston - Family Health International
       Naila Ahmed - Amnesty International
       Viktor Bojilov - Management Services International
       Jitu Sardar - Department of State, EUR/PD
       Armand Cucciniello - Center for Strategic and International Studies
       Michael Haralambakis - Department of State - EUR/PD

View where we have had students intern in Washington, DC in the past:

Calendar of Events

Tues. 9/2, 5-6 p.m.: Program Orientation at Greenberg House
Classes begin this week!
Fri. 9/28, 6-8:30 p.m.: Maxwell-GSPIA-GSIS Party???
11/24-11/28: Thanksgiving week (Monday classes held, all others cancelled)
12/8-12/11: Last week of classes!

Program Location & Costs
All courses will be held at the Syracuse University Paul Greenberg House, a townhouse which is located at 2301 Calvert Street, NW (Woodley park Metro Station). The townhouse consists of a reception area on the first floor, a large seminar room with a Picture Tel videoconferencing unit and a food service area on the second floor, a large seminar room on the third floor with additional space for the International Relations office suite, and other offices on the four floor, along with a small seminar room.

In the IR office suite, students have access to multi-media computers that are connected to the Internet by a high speed T1 line bringing broadband communication capacity and greater flexibility to our programs. The computers have desk-top video conferencing capabilities and a laser printer. On Thursday mornings a continental breakfast of bagels, juice and coffee provide a time when students can get acquainted and share ideas and experiences. Light refreshments are also provided during afternoon and evening classes.

The seminars will begin during the week of Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008. Courses will follow the Syracuse University Academic Calendar. The program orientation will be held for the first 45 minutes of class on Tuesday evening, from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Greenberg House. Syracuse students will pay Syracuse University graduate tuition, plus an administrative fee of $338. Syracuse students will also pay Syracuse University tuition for all credits taken during the program.

Here is a preliminary estimate of costs for the semester. Please note that costs are subject to change, and are based on estimated 2007-2008 tuition costs:

*Please note that joint JD/IR students must pay law school tuition for any credits that they take through the IR program. This includes credits taken on global programs such as the Global Development Program in DC.

**Please note that students will not be located on Syracuse University's campus and, therefore, will not benefit from services provided to students on campus. As a result, there is one fee for full-time graduate students that will be waived for student's participating in the program in Washington. This fee waiver is described below:

Once students have registered for the Global Security & Development Program courses, the Global Programs Coordinator will request that this fee be waived for each Syracuse University student participant. Please note that as a participant in this program you will not be eligible for a waiver of the Graduate Student Activity Fee of $38.

Housing
Neither Syracuse University nor The Maxwell School provides housing for graduate students participating in the Global Security & Development Program in Washington, DC in the fall. However, we have developed a list of resources that you can use to identify housing options.

Washington DC Housing Resources

Prior to making any financial commitment for a housing arrangement, you should work closely with the Global Programs Coordinator, to ensure that the housing you are considering is in a safe and convenient location. Nell is a native of the Washington, DC area and is very familiar with the city and surrounding suburbs.

We recognize that the costs of living in Washington are higher than some other metropolitan areas, and so we offer a limited number of graduate assistantship positions that provide a few lucky students with the opportunity to earn a few bucks on the side. These positions help us serve you better, and in return we try to help you off-set your costs. Those eligible for these positions have so indicated on their applications already. If decisions have not been made by the time of the orientation, you can expect to hear from us soon thereafter.

All Graduate Assistants will report to Melissa Morton at the Paul Greenberg House. For more information, please contact the Global Programs Coordinator at global@maxwell.syr.edu.

Due to the limited number of assistantships that we can award each semester, we highly recommend that students take advantage of the multitude of outside sources of funding to help support their stay in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit the following website that highlights a number of relevant funding opportunities.

Washington, DC is America's number one tourist destination and has terrific recreational opportunities. For starters, there's the Mall with its monuments, free concerts, craft fairs, parades, festivals, kite flying contests, and more.

The Smithsonian Institution combines 18 different museums, including Air & Space, the Holocaust Museum and the National Zoo.

In the Woodley Park and Adams Morgan neighborhoods there are scores of art galleries, theaters, concert halls plus many movie houses. For special events each week in DC, please refer to the Washington Post's Weekend section.

Young singles set the pace in Washington--which makes for a bustling nightlife and bar scene. For Washington nightlife, and other local activities see The Washington Post and The City Paper.

Woodley Park itself has great ethnic restaurants and sidewalk cafes, and there are 200 more within walking distance. If you're an outdoor person, Rock Creek Park passes through Woodley Park and it's well-maintained bike path leads 25 miles up to a scenic lake in Maryland or 20 miles down along the Potomac River to Mount Vernon.

You can also rent a canoe at the Georgetown waterfront or play volleyball on the Mall. In fact, there are many team sports played on the Mall including volleyball, ultimate frisbee, kickball, and flag football. To find out more information on how to join a team, visit www.Our-DC.com.

You can also jog, hike or bike the C&O Canal towpath that runs 185 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland, or the Capital Crescent Trail, a old train track that has been converted to a paved trail that runs from Georgetown up through Silver Spring, MD.