GOVT 85.49 Applied Foreign Policy Analysis

Focusing on the challenges of European security, this seminar will provide students with the opportunity to research and produce policy analysis at a professional level. The seminar will be a setting that mimics the real-world practice of policy analysis, a demanding craft that requires drawing inferences from limited information, under time pressure and data constraints, generating a diagnosis of a policy challenge and recommending a solution. My presumption is that your coursework so far at Dartmouth will have given you formidable analytical skills. Our job will be to put them to work in producing compact, analytically- and data-rich studies that generate concrete policy recommendation and communicating those findings orally. Each student will take on a different challenge in European security policy.  Students will seek out relevant expertise and resources in government agencies and think tanks in the USA and Europe.  The seminar will involve required attendance at relevant talks, workshops and seminars that are relevant to European security.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT or SOC

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Department-Specific Course Categories

Government