The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
The School’s programs focus on understanding the global context of advances in science and technology and on preparing students to address pressing concerns at the nexus of science, technology, and policy. Our alumni are making a difference in the fields of international business, domestic and foreign policy analysis, law, international security, foreign diplomacy, communications, human rights advocacy, education, and city, state, and federal government.
The School offers B.S. and professional M.S. degrees, as well as a minor in International Affairs and certificate programs in Asian Affairs, European Affairs, European Union studies, and Latin American Affairs. Undergraduate and graduate students may also participate in School-sponsored summer programs in Belgium, China, Argentina, Cuba, and Costa Rica.
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Sub-communities within this community
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Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) [51]
The interdisciplinary policy research arm of The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. -
European Union Center of Excellence at Georgia Tech (EUCE) [10]
One of eleven European Union Centers of Excellence in the United States created to promote awareness and understanding of the European Union (EU) and transatlantic relations.
Collections in this community
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Globalization, Innovation, and Development Invited Speakers Seminar Series [17]
Programs that explore interactions between the socio-political economy of science, technology, and innovation with international economic growth, entrepreneurship and development -
Sam Nunn Policy Forum [17]
Developed from former Senator Sam Nunn’s vision of increasing understanding among policymakers, academic researchers, technologists, and citizens regarding important issues facing the world. -
School of International Affairs Theses and Dissertations [27]
Original work by students in the School of International Affairs
Recent Submissions
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The Politics of the Military in China: The CCP and PLA
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12-12)The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is and has always been a crucial part to help the Party and Republic to advance its goals, from helping Mao to establish his communist state to the ... -
Military Deception and Strategic Culture: The Soviet Union and Russian Federation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12)This article explores the influence of Soviet and Russian strategic cultures on the conduct of military deception operations, one facet of information warfare. Our thesis is that a subcomponent of strategic culture in the ... -
Market-based approaches for postharvest loss reduction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-16)Do farmers in contract farming (CF) arrangements have lower levels of postharvest losses than do farmers who do not participate in contract farming? Does our current understanding of postharvest losses overlook other ... -
Coordinating across chaos: The practice of transnational internet security collaboration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-18)This dissertation explores transnational security provisioning on/for the internet. A unique framework of analysis is established that melds traditional understandings of security drawn from computing disciplines with ... -
New Geostrategic Challenges Facing Our Western Alliance
(2018-11-06)General Breedlove will be speaking about the geostrategic challenges that western allies face. -
Immigration, Race and Populism: Politics and Policy from Colonialism to Brexit
(2018-10-17)With images of children in cages, separated from their parents, and would-be migrants floating on overloaded boats in the Mediterranean becoming fixtures in the news media, politicians are struggling to find solutions to ... -
The determinants of military technology innovation and diffusion
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-28)A state’s capacity to develop and produce advanced military technology contributes to its standing within the global distribution of power. Similarly, the manner in which such technologies, once developed and produced, ... -
Re-control the market for strategic power: China's reregulation of its rare earth industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-17)This thesis studies the role and the capacity of the Chinese state in the development of China’s rare earth industry. The Chinese rare earth industry has rapidly developed since the late 1970s and has provided the global ... -
Achieving Individual Privacy and International Security Cooperation in a Shifting Landscape
(2017-04-18)The Center for European and Transatlantic Studies at The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the Institute for Information Security & Privacy at Georgia Tech, and the Scheller College of Business host a one-day ... -
Fourth annual report of the Sam Nunn security program
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When opportunity doesn't knock: examining military non-investment in emerging technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-11)Why do militaries invest in some emerging technologies but not others? Conventional wisdom suggests that capable states have reasons to hedge their bets and invest in emerging military technologies as widely as they can. ... -
Computational modeling of spontaneous behavior changes and infectious disease spread
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-09)In the Spring of 2009, a new strain of pandemic influenza virus emerged in the human population and spread to major countries worldwide. This caused panic that the world was witnessing another influenza outbreak potentially ... -
The social impact of open government data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-02)This comparative study investigates the claim that open government data (OGD) should have a noticeable impact on marginalized groups’ inclusion in policy making. OGD researchers and practitioners conceptualize that society’s ... -
Euro-Atlantic Challenges: A Way Ahead
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Transatlantic Agenda 2016
(2016-01-21)Caroline Vicini, Deputy Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, will speak on the "Transatlantic Agenda 2016," addressing the migration and refugee crisis, transatlantic trade negotiations, terrorism and more. -
Constructing knowledge-based industries in the globalization era: Social learning, the political process and commitment strategies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-25)This research addresses two puzzles: Why do similar regions within countries pursue different commitment strategies towards growing their bioscience industries? Why do some change in response to a global financial shock ... -
French Foreign Policy and Today's Major International Crises
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-10-28)The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Georgia Tech hosted Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the United States and formerly to the United Nations, as he spoke on the Iran Nuclear Deal, as well as the French ... -
Iran Nuclear Deal: Triumph of Diplomacy or Dangerous Precedent?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-09-09)The Nuclear Deal with Iran has generated a lot of buzz over the past several months. But what does it entail? Why are some happy with the deal and others not? What are the risks and rewards for such a deal? If you have ... -
EU-US relations in Challenging Times
(2015-04-22)David O‘Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, will discuss the state of transatlantic relations, including the crisis in Ukraine, nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Transatlantic Trade and ... -
Trust-building in the U.S.-Chinese nuclear relationship: impact of operational-level engagement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-08-22)The United States and China have been conducting extensive operational-level engagement on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation issues for more than three decades. Many policy-makers and analysts are wondering whether ...
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