Maxwell School Forum on Contemporary Issues in International Affairs
220 Eggers Hall
The Maxwell School is a graduate school of social science with a unique multidisciplinary character that cuts across traditional departmental lines. At Maxwell, theory and practice are regarded with equal seriousness: the barriers that divide academic disciplines from one another and from the larger world of public life are routinely breached by the wide-ranging scholarly and educational activities of an outstanding faculty and an exceptionally cosmopolitan student body
A forum on issues in international affairs, open to top college juniors and seniors in Upstate NY. It will model graduate-level discussion in international affairs and will include short faculty lectures with time for question and answers on international security and terrorism, America's role in the world, the Syrian conflict, and challenges facing the new leadership of the United Nations.