GW Professor in the Spotlight IERES Director Marlene Laurelle Draws Attention to Ukraine
In a recently published New York Times op-ed, Dr. Marlene Laruelle explores the brewing domestic political crisis in Russia and describes a country starkly divided. “In the wake of a stunning counteroffensive in which Ukrainian forces reclaimed over 1,000 miles of territory, Russia is uneasy,” says Laruelle.
2022 Elliott School Photo Exhibition
September 23,2022
We are showcasing the winners of our annual Photo Exhibition. The images we selected reflect the diversity of the countries and cultures students are experiencing this summer; from food to festivals, politics to people
Students Place Second at Schuman Challenge
GW competed in the Schuman Challenge at the European Union mission and came in second place out of 22 competing schools. The team featured Anisha Sahni (senior, double major in political science with a public policy focus and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality...
Elliott School M.A. Candidate and Rosenthal Fellow Will Work for House Foreign Affairs Committee This Summer
Medha Prasanna has spent the bulk of her graduate studies at George Washington University learning about international organizations as well as Asian history and politics. But this summer, she will spend her time on Capitol Hill working for the United States...
A Week at Elliott
Each semester the Elliott School hosts dozens of diverse events featuring distinguished speakers from all aspects of the international affairs community, all free to students and often open to the public and to the media. In just one recent week alone, the Elliott...
50 years later: Richard Nixon’s Historic Visit to China
Two Elliott School faculty members who are leading international experts on U.S./China relations offer commentary on the 1972 foreign affairs breakthrough. President Richard Nixon made one of the most significant foreign visits in the history of the United States 50...
Alumna Learned Important Lessons as Member of GW Debate and Literary Society
As she gathered with her debate teammates at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, where Martin Luther King Jr. once perused the corridors as a student, George Washington University alumna Hailey Knowles, B.S. ’21, realized her ears would be the best asset that day instead of...
GW Elliott Launches Fund to Increase Access and Promote Equity
An innovative initiative at the Elliott School will soon provide significant new resources for students, advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in international affairs education by increasing access for students with financial need. The initiative, the...
Your Next Podcast Listen
What podcasts are Elliott School students listening to? An informal survey turned up both international affairs standbys as well as other podcasts that provide a humorous or non US-centric analysis for your next listen. So, if you are looking for more international...
GW Elliott to Honor Retiring Professor Edward “Skip” Gnehm
Shortly after noon on March 2, 1991, an honor guard in Kuwait City greeted Ambassador Edward “Skip” Gnehm Jr., newly appointed to head the United States’ diplomatic mission in Kuwait. The Gulf War had ended less than a week earlier. Before the new ambassador could...
Elliott School Faculty are Leaders in Effort to Understand Need for Data Governance
Americans created the internet and the business models that supports many of the services that kept the US and global economy vibrant during the pandemic, and data underpins those services. However, policymakers are in the early stages of governing data at...
GW Senior Takes Part in COP26 Conference, Seeks to Be Driver of Change
PHOTO STUDENT Francesca Edralin Growing up in an affluent New Jersey suburb of New York City, George Washington University senior Francesca Edralin believes many in the U.S. are in a bubble regarding climate change because they don’t necessarily see the effects of it...
GW Elliott to Honor Retiring Professor Edward “Skip” Gnehm
Shortly after noon on March 2, 1991, an honor guard in Kuwait City greeted Ambassador Edward “Skip” Gnehm Jr., newly appointed to head the United States’ diplomatic mission in Kuwait. The Gulf War had ended less than a week earlier. Before the new ambassador could...
Faculty Reflections on COP26
31 OCT – 12 NOV 2021 GLASGOW COP26 ELLIOTT SCHOOL FACULTY REFLECTIONS In 2018, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Climate change is moving faster than we are.” The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) taking place now—...
Youth Observer to the United Nations is Elliott School Senior
Tasked with finding the next Youth Observer to the United Nations, an interviewer asked applicant Cynthia Yue, a George Washington University senior international affairs major, what superpower she possessed. Growing up in Tennessee as a first-generation American and...
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