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Alasdair Young

Dr. Alasdair Young Elected Vice-chair of the European Union Studies Association for 2013-15

Binita Patel

Patel Receives Possible Woman Foundation International Scholarship

May 6, 2013 — Binita Patel, a student majoring in International Affairs and Modern Languages, is a recipient of a Possible Woman Foundation International Scholarship.

Challenges of Mass Transit Event

INTA Investigates Challenges of Mass Transit

May 2, 2013 — Dr. Ing. Raul Delgado Sayan, president of the CESEL S.A. engineering firm in Peru, was the guest speaker at an event on mass transit organized by Moraima Guzman-Bambaren and Nick Varner, graduate students in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. The event was held March 27 in the Bill Moore Student Success Center.

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Alumni Profiles

Kristin Lundberg

Kristin Lundberg

BS IAML 2006

Kristin Lundberg's current post as a foreign affairs officer at the State Department required 14 interviews over the course of two days for one of only a few hundred fellowship slots coveted by nearly 700 finalists.  She had roughly a 5% chance of getting the job at State, but succeeded.  She works in CO.NX (pronounced “connex”), an office within the Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) at the U.S. State Department. IIP is the State Department’s public diplomacy (PD) communications bureau, leading it's support for U.S.

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2012 Sam Nunn Policy Forum

INTA's Dr. Jenna Jordan Referenced in the New Yorker—May 6, 2013

"It is also far from clear that killing leaders is even a reliable means of disrupting terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. Jenna Jordan, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Aaron Mannes, of the University of Maryland, have separately reviewed dozens of past campaigns by governments to destroy terrorist organizations and found that culling leaders works in some instances—especially when terrorist groups are young and small—but not in others. The approach is particularly ineffective against religious organizations, which tend to regroup and escalate violence in response to such efforts."

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