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Announcement for Hunter undergraduates
Junior Fellows Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Note: Page has been updated, application date corrected to December 10th
Washington, D.C.
Each year the Endowment offers up to ten one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 200 colleges. The program is designed to provide a substantive work experience for students who have a serious career interest in the area of international affairs.
Junior Fellows provide research assistance to Associates working on the Carnegie Endowment’s projects such as non-proliferation, democracy building, international economics and business, China-related issues and Russian/Eurasian politics studies. Junior Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research for books, co-author journal articles and policy papers, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony and organize briefings attended by scholars, activists, journalists and government officials.
No one will be considered who has started graduate studies. All fellowships begin on August 1st. Junior Fellows are hired for approximately one year. Salary (equivalent to approx. $30.000 annually), benefits, and a housing allowance are included.
Interested Hunter students should see:
Prof. C. Roberts, Department of Political Science (croberts@hunter.cuny.edu)
Applications must be submitted to the Hunter nominating committee (chaired by Prof. Roberts) by December 10.
Students must submit:
- Resume
- 2 recommendations, (at least one of which from student’s major department
- transcript
- essay of no more than 3 typewritten double-spaced pages on one of the following topics (selected by Carnegie):
All of the following must be received in the Department no later than December 10th.
- Statement of nomination from appropriate university official.
- Application Form
- 1-2 page resume (must include telephone number, address, e-mail address, extra-curricular activities and work experience).
- Two recommendations, at least one of which should be from a professor of the student’s major department.
- Transcript of undergraduate records (transcript may be unofficial).
- Essay (one page) or less, on why the student would like to become a junior fellow.
- An essay of no more than three typewritten, double-spaced pages on one of the following topics. These topics are not necessarily indicative of the issues that Junior Fellows will research at the Carnegie Endowment, but they are intended to test skills in analysis, logic, and written expression. The essays should be thought pieces (similar to opinion editorials) not research papers.
A. President Bush and senior administration officials speak often of the U.S.’s new “generational commitment” to transform the Middle East into a zone of liberal democracies and free market economies, likening the effort to the U.S. Struggle to defeat communism during the Cold War. Can the U.S. really transform the Middle East? If so, how? How is the “generational struggle” similar to or different than the Cold War?
B. Hu Jintao became president of the People’s Republic of China in March 2003. Evaluate his performance in dealing with issues concerning China’s security and political reform.
C. Ukraine, being semi-democratic and a rudimentary economy, can be seen as the last post-communist transition country that has not found its form as yet. In the fall of 2002, the U.S. nearly froze its relations with Ukraine after President Leonid Kuchma appeared responsible for having ordered the murder of a journalist and the sales of sophisticated military equipment to Iraq. Meanwhile Ukraine was also on the black list for laxity on money laundering and intellectual property piracy. Now, UkraineIraq, and U.S.-Ukraine relations have greatly improved. What would be the correct U.S. policy toward Ukraine?
D. President Bush has said that the U.S. will not tolerate nuclear weapons in either North Korea or Iran. What are the most important factors that can help prevent the acquisition or retention of nuclear weapons by these states. If these two states succeed in "going nuclear", what should U.S. policy makers do to respond?
E. In September 2003, the World Trade Organization held its major ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Once again, the world's attention focused on the importance of global trade rules in facilitating development. How would you rank the importance of international trade compared with other factors in the development of the world's poorest 60 countries? Is international trade given too much attention, not enough, or about the right amount?
Junior Fellows Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Questions concerning the above requirements and the junior Fellows Program may be addressed to Lynne Sport, Director, Human Resources & Administration at (202) 939-2221 or jrfcllowinfo@ceip.org.
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