The Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs inaugural semester began one week before the attacks of September 11, 2001, events that brought international affairs into the daily lives of New Yorkers. In these programs, faculty and students work together to define and explain the new realities of the 21st century, which requires a new approach to mobility and migration, the global economy, politics and culture, and relations between the Global South and the Global North.
The International Affairs programs challenge students to think critically and deeply about urgent global challenges, such as social and economic rights, urban and community development, new media and technology, environmental justice, migration and refugees, international law, conflict, and peacebuilding. Our curricula combine historical and theoretical foundations, training in methods, and specialization in a thematic area of international affairs.
International Affairs faculty represent a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds. Hailing from countries including Argentina, Japan, South Africa, Russia, India, Latvia, Germany, Mexico, and the United States, these scholars bring region-specific experience in contemporary global issues and professional organizations to the classroom.
The Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs are vibrant hubs of critical, heterodox, and innovative research. Following in the footsteps of John Dewey, the International Affairs programs are committed to combining engaged practice with cutting-edge scholarship on pressing contemporary issues.
Our International Affairs students take full advantage of New York City's incomparable resources in the field. The city's extraordinary range of international NGOs, intergovernmental institutions, and global companies provides unique opportunities for student research, internships, and practicums.
When you apply to the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, you take the first step toward joining an internationally diverse community of scholars and practitioners who are working to address complex global challenges. We look for students who have a clear sense of purpose, leadership potential, maturity, and a critical eye toward global studies. Our admission team is available to help you find an academic path that will make you grow exponentially on a professional and personal level.
Named among the top international affairs programs by the Foreign Policy Association, our Graduate Programs in International Affairs are distinctive in The New School tradition: critical, engaged, and truly global.
At The New School, international affairs is defined broadly, as processes, interactions and institutions that shape economy, society, politics and culture. Our distinctive academic approach is rooted in critical social enquiry and engaged learning with a commitment to the values of global solidarity. Learn more about our graduate degrees and programs.
Our 42-credit degree with a structured core curriculum and concentrations that let you specialize in cities and social justice, conflict and security, development and global justice, governance and rights, or media and culture.
To change the world, start with changing the perspective. In the Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, students and faculty explore new thinking to address the urgent crises of exclusion, inequality, displacement, authoritarianism, environmental destruction, and more.
No matter where they work, our alumni combine critical thinking skills with a commitment to global solidarity to find creative solutions to global challenges. Our students have gone on to work in public service, nonprofit institutions, businesses, and academia on issues related to urban development, human rights, environmental policy, migration and refugees, security, gender equality, and more.
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The Fifth Edition of this comprehensive and well-organized book continues to delve into the multidimensional aspects of international relations, taking into account the present undergraduate and postgraduate curricula of different universities.
The book gives a panoramic view of international relations and is not only a useful guide for students and teachers of International Relations, Political Science, History but also for those aspiring for various competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, and Civil Services examinations.
I am a political scientist, with research interests in urban security and policing, risk and surveillance studies, critical international relations, and critical security studies. Methodologically, my work combines fieldwork and ethnography with historical and archival work. In addition to international relations and political theory, I also draw from anthropology, criminology, sociology and cultural studies.
SG: Broadly, my research is on borders, on questions of mobility and the militarization of borders in South Asia. I examine how the control of borders and national territory relate to ideas of belonging and citizenship, and I have focused my research on the India-Bangladesh border.
SG: In my work, I physically go to the borderlands, to both sides of the borders, and study popular discourses. I seek to understand lived experiences, but also to achieve a degree of critical distance on both sides.
We need to recognize that these are densely populated borders, across which policing has varied since the late 1940s. I seek to center the experiences of the border in these borderlands, and to get us to understand the border in a new way. But I also hope to de-exceptionalize the border, and avoid fetishizing it. Ethnography tries to focus on why the border is significant, but also on other kinds of concerns: agrarian concerns, questions of livelihood, and questions of identity.
RV: A lot of the undergraduate and graduate students who visit this website are often curious to hear about what fieldwork involves. What kind of fieldwork do you do, and what does this look like?
SG: The India-Bangladesh border is increasingly militarized, with a large and visible police presence. I faced a lot of surveillance while conducting my fieldwork. My presence as an outsider attracted scrutiny in different ways. I stuck out as an Indian on the Bangladeshi side of the border, and as an urban middle class Bengali on the Indian border villages.
The discourse we hear is about Bangladeshis crossing to India, but there are more nuances. People also move in the order direction, and the border and its policing influences the mobility of all types of people, and not necessarily those trying to cross the international border themselves. It shaped the routes people chose to take, and even the markets for commodities like vegetables.
I also conducted a few interviews with security forces, particularly on the Indian side, who occupy the increasing number of checkpoints and controls in these areas. Often, their responses would bring up other questions. Experiences of duty would be described in relation to other borders, revealing a larger geography of national security. Combining the experiences of residents and soldiers allowed me to write a biography or a history of the border through individual, personal histories.
SG: I worked for a few years in anti-human trafficking organizations, related to migration and cases of extra-judicial torture. I came to Yale grounded in this work and in a feminist, human rights background, and was interested in designing a project that would ask questions that borderland residents would ask, rather than assuming certain statements to be axiomatic. I felt a rights-based language often failed to capture this.
I am a post-doc at Brown now, and my main focus is finishing my first book based on my dissertation. It will be an ethnography of transnational life experienced in borderlands shared by India and Bangladesh, one that centers a story of transnational connections but also transnational inequality and its relationship to militarization.
She holds graduate degrees in development economics from the University of Oxford and in international relations (MSFS) from Georgetown University, and she has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Victoria in Canada.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theories and recent debates on international political economy (IPE). It illustrates the theoretical ideas of the discipline and provides an in-depth understanding of regional and global political economy.
The book focusses on the functioning of states and the economy within the perspective of world politics. It explores the theories realism, liberalism, liberal interdependence, hegemonic stability and dependency vis--vis the contemporary global economic and political scenario. It provides a historical overview of the developments in the field and study of IPE, institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization; the effects of globalization; the movement of capital; and the contested relationship between human development and democracy. The book examines the effects of neoliberal policies on the functioning of states and highlights the challenges and dilemmas of prioritizing development especially for developing countries. The author also looks at regional formations like the EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, SAARC, APEC and BRICS and their contributions to political and economic cooperation and trade.
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