Foundations of American Statecraft is a series of multi-week certification courses, designed to be a tool for mid-level staff in Washington, D.C. to credential themselves as they seek to move into higher-level policy roles. Our goal with Foundations of American Statecraft is to create a tool that presidential administrations, congressional offices, public-policy organizations, and allied businesses can rely on to assess policy alignment and fluency.
Each course centers on one theme like foreign policy, immigration, trade, technology, and more. These programs are developed in close consultation with allied organizations and a committee of policy experts.
Applications are closed. The program will begin at the end of May.
Our first 10-week program, “Conflict, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy,” ran from early April to June of 2022. Students participated in over two dozen evening seminars on foreign policy history, theory, real-world case studies, and surveys of the contemporary geopolitical landscape.
This program on “Conflict, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy” returns for its second season this spring with senior government officials, academics, and policy experts helping shape the curriculum, structure, and examination the course will entail.
Students will participate in ten, 3-hour long, evening seminars delivered by subject-area experts. With a wide-ranging curriculum presented over dozens of seminars, participants will be immersed in foreign policy history, theory, real-world case studies, and surveys of the contemporary geopolitical landscape.
At the end of the program, participants will be tested on their policy fluency. All participants will be awarded a $500 stipend if they complete the program in good faith. Participants who subsequently pass the examination will be awarded an additional $500 stipend, totaling $1,000.
FOUNDATIONS COMMITTEE
This program has been developed in consultation with some of the leading foreign policy thinkers and practitioners working today.
Alexander Alden
Jon Askonas
William Ruger
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