2008
Proposal for the Creation of a National Network of Global Studies High Schools
Allison Witt
Outreach Coordinator
Center for Global Studies
Director
Center for Global Studies
This is a proposal to seek private and public funding to create a national network of global studies high schools (GSHS). The aim of a network of GSHSs is to enlarge the leadership corps of the next generation and to equip its members to address mounting global challenges to the security, material welfare, and freedoms of the American people, the citizens of open societies everywhere, and those who are striving to join their ranks.
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2006
Getting Beyond the Bush DoctrineEdward A. Kolodziej
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
December 2006
Abstract:
Most now agree that the Bush Doctrine of unilateral pre-emptive/preventive war to defeat terrorism, stop nuclear proliferation, and democratize global politics, starting with Afghanistan and Iraq, is bankrupt. Informed critics and partisans of the Iraq gamble also agree that inept planning, notably in preparing for the aftermath of “Mission Accomplished,” and an incompetently administered occupation largely account for the debacle. This assessment, however relevant, won’t get us very far in understanding the root sources of the Bush Doctrine’s abject failure or in charting new and effective directions in American security and foreign policy. The problem with the Bush Doctrine lies less at the surface in its demonstrably flawed execution than in the fatal defects of its material and moral assumptions: that the United States is a superpower, capable of
inducing allies and compelling adversaries to submit to American preferences for world order — views shared by proponents and opponents of the war.
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2005
Global History: Research and Teaching in the 21st Century
by J.R. McNeill
Georgetown University
Plotting an Intellectual Jailbreak: Rationale For Globalizing the Campus and University
by Edward A. Kolodziej
June 2005
Abstract:
Absent a compelling rationale, there is little reason to create a new program of global studies in an already crowded academic landscape, nor much justification for re-allocating scarce (and often shrinking) human and material resources to this enterprise.
Four propositions provide a necessary if insufficiently complete and comprehensive rationale for global studies programs. First, and increasingly, fundamental problems of deep and universal concern to humans everywhere can be resolved or managed only if they are addressed — simultaneously and synchronously — at local, national, regional, and global levels by relevant actors. Second, the scope of these global and globalizing problems evidences the emergence of a global society for the first time in the evolution of the species. Third, the description, explanation, and understanding of globalization, marked by globalizing problems of a world society, require dedicated interdisciplinary and interprofessional programs of study. The obverse to this proposition, fourth, is that, notwithstanding its many merits, the current diffuse and decentralized organization of educational programs and disciplinary units across the academy at all levels is ill-suited — in some instances a serious impediment — to the study of globalization and to the discovery of ways to employ and deploy the forces unleashed by globalization for human good or, conversely, to limit and frustrate the damage they do.
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Short and Long Term Interactions Among Education, Democratization, Political Stability, and Growthby Walter W. McMahon
University of Illinois
June 2004
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