National Security Network – Spring Internship (Washington, DC)

The National Security Network is a new organization that promotes pragmatic and principled foreign policy to ensure a secure and prosperous future for the United States. The Network brings foreign policy and national security experts together, gathers the best ideas, clarifies the message, and distributes the ideas across the country.

The Washington, D.C. office is currently looking for interns to work on all aspects of the organization including policy, state outreach, communications and fundraising. The intern will work closely with the Executive Director, Policy Director and Communications Director.

The Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution is seeking one part-time intern to assist Senior Fellow Stephen Cohen and his staff with activities related to South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan, for the spring of 2009. The position is unpaid. The intern’s duties will include:

1. Organizing events, including roundtables, public lectures and conferences

2. Tracking regional media

3. Providing administrative support

4. Assisting with research and writing, including fact-checking and editing manuscripts

Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Candidates should ideally have administrative experience, organizational skills, and strong research and writing abilities. A background or demonstrable interest in India and/or Pakistan, a familiarity with security issues, and an academic background in international relations, political science, history or a related subject are highly desirable, although not required.

Call for Papers (next issue 20 May 2009)

The Central European Journal for International and Security Studies (CEJISS) welcomes scholarly contributions for upcoming issues of the journal.

CEJISS is a peer-reviewed journal committed to exploring the scholarly opinions, theories and ideas of experts and academics interested in five general subject-areas:

- International, European and Regional Security
- Political Theory related to International or European Relations/Security
- International and European Political Economy
- International, European and Regional Organisations
- Area Studies Related to International or European Relations/Security

Description:

The Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy (abbreviated name BTC) was established jointly by China’s Tsinghua University and the United States’ Brookings Institution and is located at the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. The Center is devoted to researching Chinese public policy issues and organizing policy roundtables, public lectures, private forums and discussions. The Center has also enjoyed many successes in its research, and has become an international forum and platform for international exchange and discussion. In support of China’s ongoing reforms, the BTC provides research of quality, independence, and impact.

Editorial Intern

Looking for a place to have your own voice heard? At the Diplomatic Courier magazine we have internship opportunities for students interested in foreign policy, international relations, conflict resolution, diplomacy, and international negotiations. Interns will have the chance to contribute to the Web site, the blog, and the print version of the magazine, while building important publishing points for their resume in the process.

The interns work directly with the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team of the Diplomatic Courier to update the blog, update the content of the website, and to assist with other writing and editing tasks involving the print version of the publication.

Editorial Intern

Looking for a place to have your own voice heard? At the Diplomatic Courier magazine we have internship opportunities for students interested in foreign policy, international relations, conflict resolution, diplomacy, and international negotiations. Interns will have the chance to contribute to the Web site, the blog, and the print version of the magazine, while building important publishing points for their resume in the process.

The interns work directly with the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team of the Diplomatic Courier to update the blog, update the content of the website, and to assist with other writing and editing tasks involving the print version of the publication.

This is an uncompensated internship.

The mission of the Institute is to assess the emerging security environment, develop new strategic concepts and integrated strategies to manage complex challenges, and advance strategic thinking for the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Combatant Commanders, other components of the National Defense University and Joint and Professional Military Education, and the broader national security community across the whole of government. The mission calls for outreach activities to inform the security debate in the United States and abroad.

This year's Women's Foreign Policy Group's Annual Luncheon will take place on September 29th at the Four Seasons in Washington, DC and will feature a keynote address from Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Program. Lara Logan, CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, will moderate the luncheon's Q&A session. The WFPG is looking for volunteers to help out both on the 29th and with preparations.

We are seeking immediate help at our offices in Dupont Circle this week: times would be this evening (9/3), tomorrow, and tomorrow evening (9/4) and Friday (9/5).

If you are interested and can make it this week or would like to help out closer to the event, please call Sara Barker at 202-884-8096.

2008 WFPG FALL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, DC


WFPG believes that in a world with a growing number of conflicts and hot spots it is crucial to ensure that women’s voices are heard and women leaders are fully engaged in finding new approaches and solutions. WFPG is committed to global engagement and the promotion of leadership, visibility and participation of women in international affairs. The Women’s Foreign Policy Group advances women’s leadership and highlights their contributions through international issues programs with women leaders as speakers and leadership development activities, including mentoring and internships.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States seeks an energetic, detail-oriented, creative individual to assist with all aspects of the German Marshall Fund’s Partnership Office. At GMF, the Partnership office is responsible for fundraising from outside sources (Foundations, Corporations, and Governments) for GMF core programming.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is an American institution that stimulates the exchange of ideas and promotes cooperation between the United States and Europe in the spirit of the postwar Marshall Plan. GMF was created in 1972 by a gift from Germany as a permanent memorial to Marshall Plan aid.