Is EXPLO Foreign Affairs For Me?
As an EXPLO Foreign Affairs Fellow, you'll experience first-hand what it's like to have the power to make decisions that cross international boundaries — and what it's like to deal with the consequences and ramifications (intended or otherwise) of the policies you've put into play.
Ready to start solving the world's problems? We are the program you've been looking for.
Making Modernity Work
“We are living, so we are told, through an ideological crisis,” writes Gideon Rose in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs. Find out more about Dr. Rose's views on Making Modernity Work.
International Insight
You'll receive guidance and insight from the brightest in the foreign policy field, from United Nations diplomats to NGO staffers, and will get the chance to find out how your ideas — and your proposed actions — might work on the policy stage. It's a chance few get — but we know that if you've gotten this far, you're ready to take up the challenge.
Global Problems, Global Solutions
Do you look at the world on a larger scale? When you think of issues such as free trade, environmental sustainability, and forced migration, do you take on each problem individually — or do you see them as inherently interconnected and a part of the whole?
The world of international relations requires a special kind of person: someone who is capable of entertaining disparate viewpoints, acknowledging the possibility of multiple truths, and working with a wide variety of individuals, governments, and institutions to foster — and reach — a common goal. It needs someone with a quickness of mind, a balance of vision and pragmatism, and an openness of spirit. And, of course, a passion for tackling issues on a global scale. So if you're looking to study and understand international issues — and collaborate to create global-sized solutions — then EXPLO Foreign Affairs is the program for you.
The Real Work of Running the World
Run jointly by EXPLO and the staff of Foreign Affairs, EXPLO Foreign Affairs is not a program for the armchair theorists, the biased observers, or those that prefer to remain mildly informed. Diplomatic missions, policy decisions, and real-world global consequences will have you rolling up your sleeves and working together to create innovative and viable solutions to problems that affect everyone from the poorest to the wealthiest among us.
We'll simulate an international crisis — and you'll become the domestic and international decision makers responsible for creating policy outcomes that work to further your nation's interests and the common good.
Learning by Doing
One thing that makes EXPLO Foreign Affairs so unique is the emphasis we placed on real world applications. You won't be sitting through hours of lectures. Instead, as a budding professional in your field, you'll be learning by doing.
This course will combine classroom sessions, guest appearances by leading scholars and practitioners, a multi-day simulation of a foreign policy crisis, and a field trip to New York to visit the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions. Through seminar discussions, reading assignments, and guest appearances, you'll learn about the history and current structure of the international system and be introduced to the major issues on the American foreign policy agenda. And you'll come away with a unique understanding of what foreign policy actually involves and why it matters, as well as an overview of various career options relating to global issues.
According to the Professional
With Dr. Gideon Rose, Editor of Foreign Affairs, and his staff at the helm, you'll spend each day discussing policy decisions, meeting with foreign policy experts, and traveling to the seats of international diplomacy and power. According to Dr. Rose...
"The world today is more connected than ever before, with the flows of globalization linking social, economic, political, and security threads into a complex tapestry. The United States sits at the center of the system, as the strongest, richest, most influential power in history. And yet the liberal global order that Washington has spent a century developing and nurturing is under renewed pressure, with terrorism, regional competition, economic crisis, and other dangers looming. Can the next generation of American policymakers manage to hold things together and take the world to new heights, or will American and Western decline trigger chaos or renewed conflict? No issues are more important, no time is too soon to start learning about them, and there is no better way to do so than through this introduction to American foreign policy taught by the staff of Foreign Affairs."
