The Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) embodies the distinctive tradition of critical and engaged social thought of the New School. Faculty members combine practical experience in development work, the third sector, or in public advocacy with academic research that engages core problems of globalization and international affairs today. The student body is a diverse, vibrant combination of recent college graduates and professionals who are changing careers or adding to their qualifications.
news
- Monday, June 29, 2009
Watch as GPIA Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown. Full preview version available on Professor Wolff's website.
- Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The work of this semester's PIA groups, Asch Harwood, Mariluz Lopez, William Post, Bradley Seelig, Christian Sempere and Jon Wallach, is featured on the Financing for Development website. Their work examined proposals of CS advocates for strengthening global economic governance and promoting the role of the United Nations in global economic and financial policy-making.
- Tuesday, June 2, 2009
GPIA alumni Matt Simonds and Hitomi Akiyama have been working this year for the International Trade Union Confederation UN Office on a grant from the German Development Agency (BMZ) to facilitate civil society participation in the intergovernmental discussions at the UN on Financing for Development and the current financial crisis. They currently operate the Global Social Economy/Global Crisis list serves, among other things and now maintain the Financing for Development: Civil Society Engagement web site to a more permanent platform based in Barcelona.
- Sunday, May 31, 2009
Teo Ballve's article Dark Side of Plan Colombia based on his thesis research will be published in the upcoming issue of The Nation. Teo is a recent GPIA graduate and recipient of the Distinguished Thesis Award. Next year he will begin pursuing a PhD in Geography at Berkeley. Congratulations to Teo for his accomplishments!
- Sunday, May 31, 2009
GPIA students in the IFP in Buenos Aires will meet former GPIA faculty member and New School Ph.D. in Economics, Martin Abeles, Secretary for Economic Policy of the Government of Argentina, on June 1 for a briefing on the Argentine Economy.
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The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) creates new opportunities for multiple narratives and public debate on hemispheric processes of reform and change. The broad theme for the OLA is "Social Democracy in a Globalized World: Anticipating Futures in Latin America."
The OLA seeks to support and disseminate the development and articulation of new models of political, social, and economic development in Latin America and to facilitate their communication and dissemination in the United States. The OLA has two programs: Latin America on the Move and Building Latin American Bicentennials in the Age of Globalization.
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- Friday, January 23, 2009
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