The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Established 1933
Type Private
Dean Stephen W. Bosworth
Postgraduates 450
Location Medford, MA, USA

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also referred to as The Fletcher School, is the oldest school in the United States dedicated solely to graduate studies in international relations. It is one of the eight schools and colleges comprising Tufts University. The Fletcher School, along with the School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering, occupies the university's main campus in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts. In 2008, the school enrolled approximately 450 full-time students (excluding Ph.D. candidates not enrolled in courses) and employed 30 tenured or tenure-track faculty. Stephen W. Bosworth, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, is the current dean of The Fletcher School.

The Foreign Policy 2008 ranking of the Top International Relations master's program named the Fletcher School as the fourth best, ahead of International Relations programs from universities like Columbia, Princeton, London School of Economics, Yale or Stanford.[1]

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[edit] History

Goddard Hall, 1939

The Fletcher School was founded in 1933 with the bequest of Austin Barclay Fletcher, who left over $3 million to Tufts University upon his death in 1923. A third of these funds were dedicated to a school of law and diplomacy. Fletcher did not have in mind a school "of the usual kind, which prepares men for admission to the bar and for the active practice of law." Instead, Fletcher envisioned "a school to prepare men for the diplomatic service and to teach such matters as come within the scope of foreign relations [which] embraces within it as a fundamental a thorough knowledge of the principles of international law upon which diplomacy is founded, although the profession of a diplomat carries with it also a knowledge of many things of a geographic and economic nature which affect relations between nations."[1]

The school opened in 1933 as a collaborative project between Harvard University and Tufts University. Tufts University would later assume sole responsibility for administrating the school but the Fletcher School has continued to cooperate closely with other universities. In addition to the various joint programs offered, Fletcher students can also take classes at MIT and Harvard graduate schools.

The Fletcher School and Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) are the only non-law schools in the US that compete in the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Despite not being a law school, Fletcher won the regional competition in 2006, beating schools such as Harvard, Cornell and Syracuse.

[edit] Degree programs

The Fletcher School offers multi-disciplinary instruction leading to the degrees of Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy. In 2000, the school launched the Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP), a year-long combined residency and Internet-mediated master's degree program for mid-career professionals. In the fall of 2008, the school introduced two new programs: 1) a two year Master of International Business (MIB) program which combines the flexibility of the international affairs curriculum with a core of business course, and 2) a one year Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree which is a post-graduate, full-time academic degree for legal professionals who wish to obtain specialized education in a particular area of international law. The school does not award undergraduate degrees.

The vast majority of the students are enrolled in the MALD program, a two-year program that culminates with a thesis. Students concentrate in two out of twenty possible fields of studies. They can choose between functional fields of study such as: Public International Law, International Organizations, International Business and Economic Law, Law and Development, International Information and Communication, International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Human Security, International Trade and Commercial Policies, International Monetary Theory and Policy. Development Economics, International Environment and Resource Policy, Political Systems and Theories, International Security Studies, International Political Economy and International Business Economics as well as regional fields of study like the United States, Pacific Asia and Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization. Students can also design their own fields of study. Each field consists of three or four different courses. All students have to pass a total of 16 courses in addition to passing foreign language requirements.

Ph.D. students choose to complete two or three fields of study, in addition to writing a dissertation.

The MA program is primarily for mid-career professionals. It is a one-year program and students are expected to pass eight courses and write a master's thesis.

The Fletcher School currently has formal joint degree programs with the other Tufts schools including Arts and Sciences, Engineering, the Tufts University School of Medicine, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Beyond Tufts, the school also maintains joint degree programs with University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Harvard Law School, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, the Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, the University of California at Berkeley, IE Business School in Madrid and the Institut supérieur des affaires (graduate school of management) at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in France.

The school is home to various research programs, institutes, and centers dealing with human rights and conflict resolution, international business relations, international security studies, human security, international environmental affairs, media and communication, and technology.

[edit] Organization and faculty

The Fletcher School is under supervision of a dean, appointed by the president and the provost, with the approval of the Trustees of Tufts College (the university's governing board). The dean has responsibility for the overall administration of the school, including faculty appointments, curriculum, admissions and financial aid, student affairs, development, and facilities. Unlike other graduate schools of international relations at other universities, the Fletcher School has a separate faculty, its own budget, and its own set of faculty bylaws. There are, however, a few professors who hold joint appointments with departments in the School of Arts and Sciences. Furthermore, Fletcher professors occasionally offer courses in the College of Liberal Arts or allow undergraduates to enroll in the graduate classes. The undergraduate international relations program, the largest major in the College of Liberal Arts, has its offices in the Cabot Intercultural Center, the main building of the Fletcher School complex.

The full-time Fletcher faculty comprise economists, international lawyers, historians, and political scientists who hold the academic ranks of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and lecturer. All faculty members hold terminal degrees in their respective fields (Ph.D's in the case of historians, political scientists, and economists; and JD's and LLMs in the case of lawyers).

[edit] Programs and research centers

[edit] Noteworthy faculty

  • Eilen F. Babbit, Professor of International Conflict Management Practice
  • Antonia Chayes, Visiting Professor of International Politics and Law
  • Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics
  • Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies
  • Michael J. Glennon, Professor of International Law, former legal counsel to Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law
  • Andrew C. Hess, Professor of Diplomacy
  • Ayesha Jalal, Professor of History and the Director of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies
  • Ian Johnstone, Professor of International Law
  • Michael W. Klein, Professor of International Economics
  • William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy
  • Vali Nasr, Professor of International Politics, Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Author of The Shia Revival. Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Robert Pfaltzgraff, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies
  • Jeswald W. Salacuse, Henry J. Braker Professor of Commercial Law
  • Richard H. Schultz, Professor of International Politics
  • Joel P. Trachtman, Professor of International Law
  • Peter Uvin, Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies

[edit] Some prominent alumni

Public Sector:

  • Mimi Alemayehou, F98, U.S. Director of the African Development Bank
  • Sultan T. Al-Nahayan, GMAP01, UAE Minister of Tourism & Trade
  • Joyce Aluoch, GMAP08, Judge to the International Criminal Court
  • José María de Areilza, F91, Dean, Instituto de Empresa
  • Hans Binnendijk, F70, Theodore Roosevelt Chair in National Security Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University
  • Barbara Bodine, F71, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Kuwait
  • Matt Bryza, F88, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
  • Pío Cabanillas, F86, Former Ministry-Spokesman, Spain
  • Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, F85, Professor, Instituto de Empresa
  • Dante Caputo, F67, former President of UN General Assembly
  • Peter J. Chan, F76, Singapore’s Ambassador to Thailand
  • Robin Christopher, F68, former Ambassador of United Kingdom to Argentina
  • Musa Javed Chohan, F84, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Canada, former Ambassador to France and Malaysia
  • Pamela Cox, F77, F84, Vice President for Latin America, The World Bank
  • Liu Daqun, F86, permanent Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
  • Jaime Daremblum-Rosenstein, F64, former Ambassador of Costa Rica to U.S.
  • Sofyan A. Djalil, F93, Indonesian Minister of State-owned Enterprises and former Minister for Communications and Information
  • Joseph Adam Ereli, F89, US Ambassador to Bahrain
  • Pieter Feith, F70, Head of Mission for the EU-led Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM)
  • Jeffrey Feltman, F83, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
  • Stephen Flanagan, F79, Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy and Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Colette Flesch, F61, Member of Luxembourg Parliament, former European PM
  • Stephen Flynn, F91, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Jean Francois-Poncet, F48, Member of French Senate, former French Foreign Minister
  • Luis Gallegos-Chiriboga, F83, Ambassador of Ecuador to U.S.
  • Shokri Ghanem, F73, Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas, former Prime Minister of Libya
  • Giorgi Gomiashvili, F99, former Deputy Foreign Minister/Spokesperson, Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Humayun Hamidzada, F02, Spokesperson and Director of Communications, Office of the President of Afghanistan
  • Abdelaziz Hamzaoui, F60, Tunisian Ambassador to U.S.
  • John E. Herbst, F80, Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, U.S. State Department, former Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan
  • Jonathan Howe, F67, former Deputy Assistant to the President of the U.S. for National Security Affairs
  • Wolfgang Ischinger, F73, former Ambassador of Germany to the U.S. and U.K., Chairman of the Munich Security Conference
  • Ismat Jahan, F86, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
  • Kostas Karamanlis, F82, former Prime Minister of Greece
  • Peter F. Krogh, F66, Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
  • Susan Livingstone, F73, former Undersecretary of U.S. Navy
  • Juan Fernando López Aguilar, F88, former Minister of Justice, Spain
  • Lui Tuck Yew, F94, Member of Parliament, Minister of State, Singapore Ministry of Education
  • Mary Locke, F70, senior staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Winston Lord, F60, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • Scot Marciel, F83, Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asia and Pacific Bureau and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs
  • Cynthia McKinney, F80, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
  • Mosud Mannan, F89, Bangladesh Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco
  • David McKean, F86, Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator John Kerry
  • Wayne McCook, GMAP01, Ambassador of Jamaica to China
  • Michael R. Meyer, F75, Director, Comm. & Speech writing for UN Secretary General
  • William Monroe, F73, former US Ambassador to Bahrain
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan, F49, late U.S. Senator, former U.S Ambassador to UN
  • Daniel J. Murphy, Jr. (F79), Vice Adm., U.S. Navy (Retired), Chairman and CEO, Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
  • Bernd Mützelburg, F74, Germany’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, former Ambassador to India
  • Guy de Muyser, F55, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Soviet Union and NATO
  • Kittiphong Na-Ranong, F’81, Ambassador of Thailand to Viet Nam
  • Vali Nasr, F84, Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  • Toshiyuki Niwa, F65, Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF
  • Phyllis Oakley, F57, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
  • Vartan Oskanian, F83, former Foreign Minister of Armenia
  • Frank J. Pallone, F63, U.S. Representative from New Jersey
  • Shazia Z. Rafi, F83, Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action
  • Bill Richardson, F71, Governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and U.S. Amb. to UN
  • Iqbal Riza, F’7, former Chief of Staff to the UN Secretary-General
  • Leslie V. Rowe, F82, US Ambassador, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
  • Akitaka Saiki, F79, Japan's representative to the Six Party Talks for North Korea
  • Omar Samad, GMAP04, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada
  • Juan Manuel Santos, F81, former Minister of Defense, Colombia
  • Abdulla Shahid, F91 Foreign Minister, Republic of Maldives
  • Antoinette Sayeh, F85, Director of the African Department, International Monetary Fund, former Finance Minister of Liberia
  • Sir David Serpell, F37, former British MP, British Foreign Office
  • Surakiart Sathirathai, F80, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
  • Klaus Scharioth, F78, Ambassador of Germany to the U.S.
  • Radmila Sekerinska GMAP07, Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia
  • Zvi Meir Shtauber, F74, Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University
  • Godfrey Smith, GMAP02, Foreign Minister of Belize
  • James G. Stavridis, F84, Navy Admiral, Commander, U.S. Southern Command
  • Shashi Tharoor, F76, former Undersecretary General for Communications at UN
  • Malcolm Toon, F38, late former US Ambassador (USSR 1963-1979, Czechoslovakia 1969-1971, *Yugoslavia 1971-1975, Israel 1975-1976)
  • Patrick Walsh, F93, Admiral, Vice Chief U.S. Naval Operations
  • Noer H. Wirajuda, F84, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
  • Peter Woolcott, F82, Australian Ambassador to Italy
  • Liu Xiaoming, F83, Ambassador of China to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Junsai Zhang, F89, Ambassador of China to Australia
  • Philip D. Zelikow, F95, Counselor of the U.S. Department of State

Private Sector:

  • Peter Ackerman, F69, Managing Director, Rockport Capital
  • Khalid Al-Fayez, F74, CEO, Gulf International Bank
  • Robert G. Bell, F70 Senior Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment
  • Charles N. Bralver, F75, former Vice Chairman and Founding Partner, Mercer Oliver Wyman
  • Daniel K. Chao, F75, former President and Chairman, Bechtel Corporations, China
  • Michael J. Dobbs, F77, author
  • Meng Dong, F99, President, Beijing Hengkun (Group) Ltd.
  • Gerald W. Ford, F84, Founder and Chairman, Caffe Nero Group
  • Robert Fisher, F77, Managing Partner, Goldman Sachs
  • Mike Gadbaw, F70, VP & Senior Counsel, General Electric
  • Dan Green, F91, Producer, ABC's Nightline
  • Robert Hormats, F66, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
  • Ghazi Abdul Jawad, F72, former President & CEO, Arab Banking Corporation
  • Ignasius Jonan, GMAP05, former President & CEO, Bahana Pembinaan Ushaha, Indonesia
  • Chung Won Kang, F79, President and CEO of Kookmin Bank
  • Robert E. Kiernan, F81, Chairman & CEO, Resolution Capital Advisors
  • Susan Livingston, F81, Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman
  • Jim Manzi, F79, Founder and former CEO of Lotus Corp.
  • Vikram S. Mehta, F79, Chairman, Shell Group of Companies, India
  • Janet Norwood , F46, Director, Mid Atlantic Medical Services
  • Shijuro Ogata , F55, former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan
  • B. Craig Owens, GMAP01, Exec. VP& Chief Financial Officer, Delhaize Group, Brussels, Belgium
  • Betsy Parker Powel, F57, President, Diamond Machine Technology
  • Thomas R. Pickering, F54, Senior VP, International Relations, Boeing Co. & former U.S. Under Secretary of State
  • Harry A. Radliffe II, F73, Producer, CBS’ 60 Minutes
  • Reeta Roy, F89, President and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation
  • Andy Safran, F76, Managing Dir & Global Head Energy Utilities & Chemicals, Investment Banking, *Citigroup
  • Debasish “Dev” Sanyal, F88, CEO, Air BP Limited
  • Thom Shanker, F82, The New York Times, Washington Bureau
  • Charles Sitter, F56, former President of Exxon Mobil
  • Neil Smit, F88, President & CEO, Charter Communications
  • Greg Terry, F70, Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley Asia
  • Richard Thoman, F67, former President and CEO of Xerox, Inc.
  • Carl Walter, F74, CEO, JP Morgan (China)
  • C. David Welch, F77, Regional President of Europe/Africa/Middle East/South West Asia for Bechtel and former Assistant Secretary of State for Near E. Affairs
  • Walter B. Wriston, F42, late Chairman and CEO of Citigroup
  • Ziwang Xu, F88, former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Asia
  • Mian Zaheen, F74, Managing Director, Lazard & Co., Ltd., Lazard Oil & Gas Company

Non-Profit Sector:

  • C. Fred Bergsten, F62, Director, Peterson Institute of International Economics, former Asst. Sec. for Int’l. Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury
  • Sean Callahan, F88, Executive Vice President, Overseas Operations, Catholic Relief Services
  • Charles H. Dallara, F75, Managing Director, Institute of International Finance, former Asst. Sec. for Int’l. Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury
  • Marsha J. Evans, F76, former President of the American Red Cross and Girl Scouts of America
  • Paul Hsu, F66, President of Epoch Foundation
  • George R. Packard III, F59, President of the U.S. Japan Foundation
  • Joseph Polisi, F70, President of The Juilliard School
  • Jonathan A. Small, F68, former President, Non-Profit Coordinating Committee of New York
  • John Stremlau, F69, F74, Vice President, Peace Programs, The Carter Center
  • Nicolás de Torrente, F82, Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders

[edit] Former deans

[edit] References

  1. ^ Russell E. Miller, Light on the Hill: A History of Tufts College 1852-1952 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966), 571.

[edit] External links

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