Elliott School of International Affairs

[6] This department was expanded to include other fields of study and reconstituted as the College of the Political Sciences, a part of the university that operated from 1907 till 1913.

This building features state-of-the-art lecture halls, classrooms, offices, lounges, and common areas used to host public events.

The school believes that the experience is a key part of an education in international affairs because it increases understanding of the world by providing students with a variety of new and unexpected perspectives.

[13] Foreign Policy ranked the Elliott School's Master in International Affairs as the 7th best in the world in its 2018 Inside the Ivory Tower annual report.

[13] In 2009, a study carried out by researchers at the College of William and Mary found that the Elliott School had the 8th best terminal master's program in the world for those interested in policy careers in international affairs.

[citation needed] As an integral part of its academic focus and mission, the Elliott School runs a large number of research institutes in a variety of issues.

All are run by experts in their respective fields, who lead each institution's research initiatives, conferences, lectures, discussions and other activities.

Adjunct professor Alistair Millar founded and runs the Global Center on Cooperative Security in Washington, as an initiative of the Fourth Freedom Forum.

Frank Ciluffo, Director of the GW Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, serves on its advisory board, which collaborates frequently with the Elliott School.

Ambassador to NATO; MA '87), David A. Nadler (vice-chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies), K. T. McFarland (Deputy National Security Advisor; BA '73), Sam Johnson (U.S.

Notable current faculty members include Amitai Etzioni (former president of the American Sociological Association), Thomas E. McNamara (former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs), Marc Lynch (Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security), Scott Pace (current Executive Secretary of the National Space Council), Charles Glaser (famed Defensive Realist theorist), David Shambaugh (Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution), Lawrence Wilkerson (former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell), Michael N. Barnett (famed Constructivist theorist), James N Rosenau (former president of the International Studies Association), Martha Finnemore (famed Constructivist theorist), Harry Harding (founding Dean of the Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy), Edward "Skip" Gnehm Jr. (former U.S.

Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia), James Foster (World Bank Board Advisor), Leon Fuerth (United States National Security Council member under President Bill Clinton), Eric Newsom (former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs), Stephen C. Smith (current Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy), Sabina Alkire (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), John Logsdon (former member of the NASA Advisory Council), and Nathan J.

Notable past faculty have included Moudud Ahmed (former Prime Minister of Bangladesh), William Luers (former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Joseph LeBaron (U.S.

Ambassador to Costa Rica & Uruguay), Christopher A. Kojm (former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council), S. M. Krishna (former Foreign Minister of India), and Andrew A. Michta (Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies)

The Elliott School is located across the street from the U.S. Department of State , U.S. Department of the Interior , the American Red Cross headquarters, and the General Services Administration and only blocks away from the White House .
An Elliott School event with the 2019 International Women of Courage recipients.
View from the Elliott School, with the Washington Monument in the back and the U.S. Department of the Interior & American Red Cross headquarters in the foreground.
Rawlins Park sits between the Elliott School & the U.S. Department of the Interior .
The current Elliott School building was inaugurated by then U.S. Secretary of State and GW alumnus Colin Powell in 2003.
The Elliott School was named after Lloyd Hartman Elliott , 14th President of the George Washington University .
The Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP) is one of the Elliott School's premier research institutes, collaborating with organizations like the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund .