Fletcher School at Tufts University

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Mission	To educate professionals from around the world and to prepare them for positions of leadership and influence in the national and international arena. To increase understanding of international problems and concerns through teaching, research, and publications. To serve local, national, and international communities in their search to develop relationships of mutual benefit, security, and justice in an increasingly interdependent world.
Established	1933
Official name	The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Motto	Preparing Leaders with a Global Perspective
University	Tufts University
School type	Private
Dean	Stephen W. Bosworth
Location	Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Enrollment	350 graduate students
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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, also called simply The Fletcher School, is the oldest graduate school of international relations in the United States. It is one of the eight schools and colleges that comprise 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 2004, the school enrolled approximately 400 full-time students (excluding Ph.D. candidates not enrolled in courses) and employed 31 tenured or tenure-track faculty. Dean Stephen W. Bosworth is the dean of The Fletcher School.

History

The Fletcher School was founded in 1933 at the bequest of Austin Barclay Fletcher who left over $3 million to Tufts University upon his death in 1923. A third of this was to go to a school of law and diplomacy "to prepare men for the diplomatic service and to teach such matters as come within the scope of foreign relations." 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's Kennedy School of Government as well as Harvard Business School.

The Fletcher School and Johns Hopkins 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 is seeded first in the Northeast and most recently in 2006 won the regional competition, beating schools such as Harvard, Cornell and Syracuse.

Degree programs

The Fletcher School offers multi-disciplinary instruction leading to the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), 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 2008, the school will introduce a Master of International Business. 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 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 have to complete 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 School of Medicine and 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, 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.

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).

Programs and research centers

• The Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies
• The Global Development and Environmental Institute
• The Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
• The Program in International Business
• The Center for International Environment and Resource Policy
• The Program in International Information and Communication
• The Fletcher Roundtable on a New World Order
• The Fares Center
• Refugees and Forced Migration Program
• The International Security Studies Program
• The Institute for Human Security
• The Program in Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization
• The Program in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• The Edward R. Murrow Center
• The Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies

Some prominent alumni

• Antoinette Sayeh, Minister of Finance of Liberia.
• Barbara Bodine former US ambassador to Yemen, coordinator for central Iraq.
• Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, former Secretary of Energy and ambassador to the UN.
• Costas Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece.
• Cynthia McKinney, Member of the U.S Congress.
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Senator, UN Ambassador, held cabinet or sub-cabinet positions under Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.
• David Kennedy, Professor at Harvard Law School.
• David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for the United States.
• COL (NS) James Soon, former Fleet Commander, Republic of Singapore Navy
• Jeffrey D. Feltman, US ambassador to Lebanon.
• John E. Herbst, US ambassador to the Ukraine, formerly to Uzbekistan.
• Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Spanish Minister of Justice.
• Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States.
• Li Daqun, Chinese jurist, now a permanent Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
• RADM (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Minister of State for Education, Singapore, former Chief of Navy, Singapore
• Marsha J. Evans, former president and CEO of the American Red Cross, Rear Admiral US Navy (Ret.).
• Musa Javed Chohan, Pakistan's high commissioner to Canada, former ambassador to France and Malaysia.
• Najib SAID,former director of Institut National du Travail Tunisia and of International Labor Organisation Office for Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.
• Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor of the U.S. Department of State, Staff Director of the 9/11 Commission.
• Shashi Tharoor, Author and Undersecretary General for Communications and Public Information for the United Nations.
• Shukri Ghanem Former Prime Minister of Libya.
• Vali Nasr, 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.
• Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
• Thomas R. Pickering, Senior Vice President for International Relations for Boeing, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former US Ambassador to e.g. Russia, India and Israel.
• Walter B. Wriston, former chairman of Citicorp.
• William T. Monroe, US ambassador to Bahrain.
• Wolfgang Ischinger, German Ambassador to the United Kingdom, formerly to the United States.
• Wu Teh Yao, acting Vice Chancellor of the former Nanyang University and the former head of Political Science department, University of Singapore (1971-1975).
• Ismat Jahan,Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Netherlands
• Shafi U Ahmed,High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia

Former Deans

• General John Galvin (1995-2000)[1]

External links

• The Fletcher School website
• The Fletcher Forum on World Affairs (student publication)
• PRAXIS, The Fletcher Journal of Human Security (student publication)
• The Fletcher Ledger (student publication)
• The Edwin Ginn Library (Fletcher's library)