School of Foreign Service - Georgetown University

04/29/2025

On Bloomberg’s Balance of Power, SFS Professor Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, cautions against President Trump’s optimistic claims about Russia-Ukraine peace talks, saying Trump is “overdoing it” and the process has “been handled chaotically.” Kupchan also weighs in on U.S. involvement in negotiations and President Zelenskyy’s admission that Ukraine likely cannot retake Crimea alone.

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"Balance of Power: Late Edition" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On today's show, Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, weighs in on President Trump claiming progress on a Russia-Ukraine peace deal is going smoothly. Susan Schwab, Former US....

04/29/2025

Over Easter break, members of the Georgetown Anti Poverty Society - GAPS—comprised of graduate students from the School of Foreign Service - Global Human Development and Georgetown University M.S. in Foreign Service Program (MSFS) programs as well as the McCourt School of Public Policy - Georgetown University—traveled to New York City to explore private sector social impact programs, public-private-youth partnerships and global inequality trends.

They met with the sustainability teams of Estee Lauder and Calvin Klein, UNICEF’s GenU team, the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Branko Milanović, an economist at The City University of New York (CUNY).

04/28/2025

Earlier this month, Senegalese students from the Dakar American University of Science & Technology (DAUST) came to the Hilltop to collaborate with their Hoya counterparts on technology projects to address community needs around the Senegalese capital, from flood mitigation to rideshare access. These projects served as the culmination of the Public Interest Technology Centennial Lab course led by SFS Professors Katherine Chandler and Rajesh Veeraraghavan.

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Discover how two teams of Georgetown SFS and Senegalese engineering students are using technology to address issues in Dakar.

04/28/2025

📢SFS is excited to announce our 2025 commencement speakers! 🎓

Kono Taro (SFS’86)—former Japanese Foreign Minister, former Defense Minister and current member of Japan’s House of Representatives—will speak at the SFS undergraduate ceremony at 5 p.m., Saturday, May 17. Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency), will speak at the SFS graduate ceremony at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 17. Both speakers also will be conferred honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.

Read more about all of Georgetown University’s 2025 commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients: https://bit.ly/3GuFzt6

04/27/2025

With Ukraine peace negotiations stalling, what’s the United States’ next move? SFS Professor Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, spoke to DW Communications about U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent threat to “walk away” from Ukraine, calling it the latest in a series of signals that indicate the Trump administration’s frustration with the process.

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US Vice President JD Vance says America could walk away from the war in Ukraine, if Kyiv and Moscow don't agree to a deal. He said now was the time for both sides to come to an agreement. DW spoke about this with Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of i...

04/26/2025

To close out this year’s undergraduate admitted student programming, SFS hosted a virtual info session highlighting the unique career paths and opportunities available to our students.

SFS Dean Joel Hellman moderated two dynamic panels: the first featured SFS Career Center leaders Nathan Slusher and Elizabeth Boesen and the Cawley Career Education Center’s Elizabeth Schill, who shared insights on career services, our global alumni network and the cross-cultural skills built through an SFS education.

The second panel brought in seniors Amrita Sangani (SFS’25) and Ayush Karthick (SFS’25), along with recent alumna Kavya Shah (SFS’24), who spoke about student life, student research experiences and tips for navigating the job search process.

04/25/2025

Is a tariff reprieve in the cards for South Korea? Not so fast, believes SFS Professor Victor Cha, senior fellow at CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies. In The Korea Times, Cha expressed skepticism that the United States and South Korea would be able to strike a trade deal before the latter’s snap presidential election on June 3. This, he added, means that the new South Korean administration will have a brutal timeline to cobble together a deal before Trump’s 90-day tariff suspension ends in July.

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Korea’s tariff negotiations with the United States are unlikely to be concluded before the June 3 presidential election in Seoul, Victor Cha, Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International...

04/25/2025

This week, SFS and the BMW Center for German and European Studies (CGES) welcomed Nadia Calviño, president of the European Investment Bank, to the Hilltop. Calviño discussed the Bank’s efforts to support Ukraine and promote sustainable development and energy security, emphasizing core European principles including market integration, rules-based order and commercial partnerships. Following her remarks, Calviño answered students’ questions on the impact of tariffs, economic competitiveness and trade with China.

04/25/2025

As executive orders have disrupted the federal workforce and funding, SFS Dean Joel Hellman, SFS graduate programs and the SFS Career Center have responded quickly to bring together the SFS community in support for the affected individuals. From targeted programming events and expanded one-on-one appointment availability to barrier reduction and external resource curation, alumni and current students alike have benefited from the mobilized SFS network.

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On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed executive orders putting a 90-day pause on U.S. foreign assistance funding and a hiring freeze on the federal workforce. By April, the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had cut thousands of jobs in the federal government, inclu...

04/24/2025

SFS is excited to partner with the Georgetown McDonough School of Business to bring our Master of Arts in International Business and Policy (IBP) degree to Dubai! Starting this fall, students in the 10-month IBP program will engage in seven in-person modules, alongside one online course, which all culminates in a social action project. The IBP-Dubai’s location in the heart of the Middle East continues to further our engagement with that vital region for economic and geopolitical security.

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Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business has announced the launch of a new Master’s in International Business and Policy (IBP) degree that will begin in September 2025.

04/24/2025

As we mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, SFS Professor Fr. Patrick Desbois, Professor of the Practice of the Forensic Study of the Holocaust at the Center for Jewish Civilization, warns of the shrinking window to identify many of its victims. In an article for the New York Post, Desbois details the importance of engaging with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, an approach that has long shaped his research across Eastern Europe. But as that generation is aging out, Desbois emphasizes the need to ramp up investigative efforts to preserve these identities and stories.

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On a research trip to investigate Holocaust killing sites in Ukraine, I met an elderly couple in a village who lived there when its Jews were exterminated. They were shaking so much I thought they …

04/23/2025

At SFS, students get to see global affairs in action. SFS Dean Joel Hellman led students from the Business, Policy & Society class—part of the Dikran Izmirlian Program in Business and Global Affairs (a joint initiative with the Georgetown McDonough School of Business)—on a trip to the 2025 World Bank Spring Meetings. 🌍📊

They attended the plenary session “Jobs – The Path to Prosperity,” in which young entrepreneurs, private sector leaders and World Bank leadership shared insights on creating more and better jobs for the future.

04/22/2025

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security has announced a new oral history initiative, the Hillary Rodham Clinton Oral History Project. The multi-year project seeks to establish an authoritative record of the international context, decision-making processes and policy innovations of Clinton’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State. The project will serve as an important resource for students, researchers, journalists, policymakers and historians by compiling public records, memoirs, press, speeches and more.

“The project demonstrates how policy can—and sometimes cannot—address crises and promote a more stable world. It also demonstrates the immense impact women continue to have on war and peace, diplomacy and statecraft around the globe,” says Allida Black, director of the initiative.

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The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security has announced a new oral history initiative, the Hillary Rodham Clinton Oral History Project. The multi-year project seeks to establish an authoritative record of the international context, decision-making processes, and policy innovations of Cl...

04/22/2025

Happy , Hoyas! 🌎 Today and every day, let’s commit to ensuring a safer, cleaner and healthier planet for years to come.

At SFS, we’re proud to support the work of our degree programs dedicated to environmental policy and international affairs. In our new Master of Science in Environment & International Affairs (MS-EIA) program, students acquire interdisciplinary training to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and policy expertise. Also, students in the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) program explore a diverse range of topics that impact our planet, its systems and emerging threats, all through a global lens.