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  1. National High School Essay Contest

    2024 Essay Contest Topic. This year, AFSA celebrates the 100th anniversary of the United States Foreign Service. Over the last century, our diplomats and development professionals have been involved in groundbreaking events in history - decisions on war and peace, supporting human rights and freedom, creating joint prosperity, reacting to natural disasters and pandemics and much more.

  2. Opportunities

    High School Essay Contest. Welcome to the YFPI Essay Contest! We are providing high school students interested in international politics and foreign policy with an amazing opportunity to practice research skills, educate themselves, win prizes, and be published in Yale journals. Sign up to submit your essay today! International Essay Contest 2024.

  3. 2023 Student Foreign Policy Essay Contest

    Student Foreign Policy Essay CONTEST RULES. 1. SPONSOR: The sponsor of the Student Foreign Policy Essay Contest is the John Quincy Adams Society. 2. ELIGIBILITY: Contest entrants must be legal residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia aged eighteen years or older, except where prohibited.Employees, officers, and directors of the sponsor, and its subsidiaries, affiliates ...

  4. National High School Essay Contest

    Katherine Lam, a freshman from University High School in Tucson, Arizona, is the 2022 National High School Essay Contest winner. In her essay, "Competition and Coaction in Ethiopia: U.S. and Chinese Partnerships for International Stabilization," Lam focuses on how the Foreign Service has partnered with other U.S. government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and — most notably ...

  5. Contests for Students

    The contest engages high school students in learning and writing about issues of peace and conflict, and encourages appreciation for diplomacy's role in building partnerships that can advance peacebuilding and protect national security. The winner of the contest receives a $2,500 cash prize, an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to ...

  6. Introducing the Winners of the 2023 Student Foreign Policy Essay

    The John Quincy Adams Society and The National Interest are pleased to announce the winners of our 2023 Student Foreign Policy Essay Contest. This contest, the seventh, gave postsecondary students across the United States the opportunity to offer their views on how foreign countries' defense policies align (or don't align) with U.S. interests, and how U.S. choices can improve things.

  7. PDF 2023 National Hight School Essay Contest Study Guide

    can Foreign Service Association's 100th birthday in 2024, the 2023 essay contest. looks back on the history of the United States Foreign Service abroad. It challenges students to identify American foreign policy goals in a country or region and to analyze whether U.S. Foreign Service involvement in that country or region

  8. 2021 International Affairs Essay Competition winners

    The Virginia Journal of International Affairs, the University of Virginia's only undergraduate foreign affairs research journal, partnered with the Miller Center and the International Relations Organization to sponsor an undergraduate essay competition examining lessons from past presidencies and history in general to inform the debate on contemporary policy challenges in international ...

  9. Introducing the Winners of the 2021 Student Foreign Policy Essay

    The John Quincy Adams Society and The National Interest are pleased to announce the following winners in our 2021 Student Foreign Policy Essay Contest. This year's contest offered students a choice of three prompts, all of them either being ripped from the headlines or related to relevant U.S. foreign policy issues.

  10. PDF International Affairs Essay Competition

    undergraduate foreign affairs research journal, is partnering with the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the International Relations Organization to sponsor an undergraduate essay competition examining lessons from past presidencies and history in general to inform the debate on contemporary policy challenges in international relations.

  11. PDF Study Guide for the 2024 National High School Essay Contest THE FUTURE

    address the Foreign Service and the role that diplomacy plays in advancing U.S. national security and economic prosperity. The 2024 essay topic challenges students to identify what they believe will be the biggest challenge to face the Foreign Service in the future. Their essay will describe this challenge and clearly define how American diplo-

  12. PDF International Affairs Essay Competition

    foreign affairs research journal, is partnering with the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the International Relations Organization to sponsor an undergraduate essay competition examining lessons from past presidencies to inform the debate on contemporary policy challenges. All UVA undergraduates are invited to participate. PROMPT

  13. FP Global Thinkers Student Essay Contest

    Eligibility Requirements: Essay contest participants must be an enrolled student in a college or graduate degree program from anywhere around the world. Essay Submission Requirements: All essays ...

  14. Winning Student Essay for the 2019 Foreign Policy and Carnegie

    Winning Essay for the 2019 Foreign Policy and Carnegie Corporation Essay Contest. By Grace Kier. December 19, 2019, 10:50 AM. If you've been reading Foreign Policy and using Carnegie Corporation ...

  15. Building a Better US Foreign Policy • Stimson Center

    Its Annual Student Competition invites undergraduates to share creative ideas for improving U.S. foreign policy, drawing new and innovative talent into the policy space, and providing avenues for young thinkers to engage with leading foreign policy institutions. The 2024 competition will run from January 1 through April 30, 2024. The submission ...

  16. Writing Competition & Policy Lab

    In light of that, FPCI together with the Mission of the People's Republic of China to ASEAN initiates "Youth Voice for ASEAN-China Cooperation" - a program in which 20 winners of a region-wide essay writing competition will be able to participate in an exclusive two days policy lab to produce a policy recommendation that will be handed ...

  17. 2017 Student Essay Competition

    In the 2017 Student Essay Competition, a panel from the Foreign Affairs editorial staff and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy will select one undergraduate's essay to be published on the Foreign Affairs Web site. Selection committee includes: Gideon Rose, Editor and Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs.

  18. Essay Competition

    About the Competition. The spirit of the Re:think essay competition is to encourage critical thinking and exploration of a wide range of thought-provoking and often controversial topics. The competition covers a diverse array of subjects, from historical and present issues to speculative future scenarios. Participants are invited to engage ...

  19. Deadline: National High School Essay Contest

    The deadline for this year's essay contest is 11:59 p.m. EDT on April 3. In 2024, the United States Foreign Service will celebrate its 100th birthday. ... 1924 and describe, in 1,500 words or less, how the Foreign Service was successful or unsuccessful in advancing American foreign policy goals - including promoting peace - in this country ...

  20. Berkeley Prize Essay Competition

    February 1, 2022. (Stage Two) Essay Semifinalists' 2,500-word essays due. February 8, 2022. Launch of Community Service Fellowship Competition for Essay Semifinalists. Early-March, 2022. Essay Finalists announced. March 12, 2022. Community Service Fellowship proposals due. Mid-April, 2022.

  21. No Substitute for Victory

    Yet the administration is squandering these early gains by falling into a familiar trap: prioritizing a short-term thaw with China's leaders at the expense of a long-term victory over their malevolent strategy. The Biden team's policy of "managing competition" with Beijing risks emphasizing processes over outcomes, bilateral stability ...

  22. Global Politics Has a Credibility Crisis

    Bremmer is the author of eleven books, including New York Times bestseller Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, which examines the rise of populism across the world. His latest book is The Power ...

  23. Jake Sullivan: The Sources of American Power

    A Foreign Policy for a Changed World. Nothing in world politics is inevitable. The underlying elements of national power, such as demography, geography, and natural resources, matter, but history shows that these are not enough to determine which countries will shape the future. It is the strategic decisions countries make that matter most ...