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International Relations
Committee Chairman: Charles Lipson, P 418B, 702-8053
Preceptors: Paul Kapur, Michelle Mayer, Monica Toft, P 307, 702-8073, cir1@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
The special strength of the Committee on International Relations (CIR),
the first graduate program of its kind in the nation, lies in its interdisciplinary
approach to a wide range of questions relating to international issues.
The committee's faculty includes members of the various departments in the
Division of the Social Sciences, as well as the Graduate School of Business,
the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, and the Law
School. Their expertise extends over a broad range of subjects currently
structured into eight programs of study: international relations theory,
security studies, international political economy, international history,
history and conduct of U.S. foreign policy, international law and organization,
international development, and regional international relations.
Joint B.A./M.A. Program. Qualified students in the College interested
in pursuing a joint Master of Arts degree in international relations should
consult with their College advisers and with a CIR preceptor early in their
third year of residence in the College. They will be expected to have a
grade point average of at least 3.7, to have completed most of their Common
Core requirements, and to have chosen their College concentration program.
By the end of their third year, students should also have completed at least
three courses that qualify as CIR requirements.
Application. Interested students should submit their formal application
to the program by the January 5 deadline for regular graduate admissions.
Applications should be submitted to the dean of students of the Division
of the Social Sciences (F 105). Space in the CIR B.A./M.A. program is limited,
and admission is very competitive. The application will be evaluated by
the CIR chairman and preceptors on the basis of the student's academic record,
letters of recommendation, GRE scores if available, a ten- to twenty-page
term or research paper, and a personal statement of intellectual and academic
goals. Admission to the M.A. program is also subject to approval by the
College. B.A./M.A. students enter joint residence status for the three quarters
preceding the anticipated quarter of graduation, during which time they
will be charged tuition at graduate rates.
Program Requirements. Students selected to participate
in the joint degree program fulfill all the normal B.A. requirements for
their particular field of concentration as well as all the Common Core requirements.
In addition, joint degree students in international relations will need
to satisfy the following requirements:
1. Completion of nine graduate-level courses for quality grades, including
seven CIR-approved courses. Students may petition the CIR to count toward
their M.A. degree up to three appropriate graduate-level courses taken for
their B.A. degree.
2. Fulfillment of the CIR distribution requirement that is designed to ensure
that, within the nine required courses for the M.A. degree, students achieve
sufficient depth and breadth in the study of international relations. Currently,
each student must pass two courses in each of three fields of international
relations:
a. International Relations Theory (Subfields: international relations
theory, security studies, and international political economy)
b. International History and Law (Subfields: international history,
history and conduct of U.S. foreign policy, and international law and organization)
c. International Development and Regional Studies (Subfields: international
development and regional international relations, including such areas as
Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)
3. A passing grade on the foreign language reading examination.
4. Completion of an M.A. paper that is approved by a faculty adviser.
Further information and program brochures are available in the committee
office (P 307).
Faculty
ROBERT Z. ALIBER, Professor, Graduate School of Business
RALPH A. AUSTEN, Professor, Department of History and the College
JOHN W. BOYER, Professor, Department of History and the College; Dean of
the College; Chairman, Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and
Social Sciences
JAMES FEARON, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the
College
SHEILA FITZPATRICK, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor, Department of History
and the College
MICHAEL E. GEYER, Professor, Department of History and the College
CHARLES GLASER, Associate Professor, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of
Public Policy Studies
GIDON A. G. GOTTLIEB, Leo Spitz Professor, the Law School
D. GALE JOHNSON, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor
Emeritus, Department of Economics and the College
BARRY D. KARL, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor, Department of History
and the College
FRIEDRICH KATZ, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor, Department
of History and the College
RASHID KHALIDI, Associate Professor, Departments of Near Eastern Languages
& Civilizations and History and the College
DAVID LAITIN, Professor, Department of Political Science and the College;
Director, Center for the Study of Politics, History, and Culture
CHARLES LIPSON, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and
the College; Chairman, Committee on International Relations
JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER, Professor, Department of Political Science and the
College
MICHAEL MUSSA, William H. Abbott Professor, Graduate School of Business
WILLIAM L. PARISH, Professor, Department of Sociology and the College
LLOYD I. RUDOLPH, Professor, Department of Political Science and the College
DUNCAN SNIDAL, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and
the College
NATHAN TARCOV, Professor, Department of Political Science, Committee on
Social Thought, and the College; Cochairman, Committee on Social Thought
STEPHEN WALT, Associate Professor, Department
of Political Science and the College
DALI YANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the
College
MARVIN ZONIS, Professor, Graduate School of Business and the College Go
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