International Relations News
Open GA Positions for 09-10: Apply by Friday, September 4, 2009
Maxwell's International Relations Program has Several Open GA Positions Available
MA-IR students who would like to be considered for one of four open GA positions in the IR office are encouraged to apply by Friday, September 4, 2009. Please e-mail your resume and cover letter to Nell Bartkowiak, Associate Director of Graduate Studies, at nsbartko@maxwell.syr.edu. Candidates may be interviewed before being selected. Position descriptions are available in the attached document below. Questions on these positions should be directed to Ms. Bartkowiak. Good luck!
IR GA Opps 0910
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday June 23, 2008
Maxwell School’s International Relations Program Names New Chair
Ambassador Donald Planty Brings 30 Years of U.S. Foreign Service Experience to the School
Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs announced today that it has chosen Ambassador Donald Planty as the next leader of its International Relations program. Ambassador Planty, a native of Lowville, New York, will assume his new role effective August 2008.
Planty served in a variety of posts and in a range of geographic locations during his tenure with the U.S. State Department, including in the embassies in Panama, Chile, Mexico, the Holy See in Rome, Spain, and Norway. In his final posting, he served from 1996-99 as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala. During that time, he helped Guatemala end its 36-year-long armed internal conflict by assisting both the government and the guerrillas to reach agreement on a permanent and lasting peace through a United Nations mediation process. In recognition of his efforts, he received the Order of the Quetzal, Grand Cross – Guatemala’s highest civilian honor. He was also presented with the U.S. Army Civilian Service Award, the highest civilian award bestowed by that Service. Since retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Planty has maintained a successful consulting business focused on Latin America.
“We are extremely pleased to have attracted a foreign policy practitioner of Ambassador Planty’s experience, competence, and dedication,” said Maxwell School Dean Mitchel Wallerstein. “His substantial ‘hands-on’ international experience, as well as his management expertise, prepares him well to lead the Maxwell IR program to an even more prominent role in the field. He also will be an excellent role model and mentor for SU’s IR students, both graduate and undergraduate, as he applies his career experience to educating future leaders for the international sector.”
The Maxwell School’s graduate International Relations Program, which was recently named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the nation’s top-ten IR master’s degree programs, combines a broad academic experience with training aimed at preparing students for international positions in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. The program attracts students from around the world and draws its faculty from among the School’s departments of political science, economics, public administration, anthropology, history, geography, and sociology.