Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Ambassador James Dobbins to Deliver Hooding Ceremony Keynote Address
This spring, seventy undergraduate and eighty-eight graduate students will participate in the 2008 John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy Hooding Ceremony, commemorating their graduation from their respective degree programs. Ambassador James Dobbins, director of the RAND Corporation's International Security and Defense Policy Center, will offer the keynote address to the graduating class. Ambassador Dobbins has held U.S. State Department and White House posts, including Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Special Assistant to the President for the Western Hemisphere, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for the Balkans, and Ambassador to the European Community. He has handled a variety of crisis management assignments as the Clinton administration's special envoy to Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, and the Bush administration's first special envoy to Afghanistan. He is lead author of RAND's two-volume History of Nation-Building. Ambassador Dobbins graduated from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and served three years in the U.S. Navy.

H.E. Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad to Address SHU Community
The Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations welcomes Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, Thursday, April 17. Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, currently the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has held the highest U.S. diplomatic posts in Iraq and Afghanistan, giving him a unique perspective on America’s foreign policy in the Middle East and throughout the world. The Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations proudly welcomes Dr. Khalilzad to Seton Hall University. Dr. Khalilzad will examine some of today’s most pressing global issues and the challenges he faces on the frontline of American diplomacy in an open address in Jubilee Hall Auditorium at 4pm.

Religion's Role In Diplomacy
On Thursday, 6 March 2008, the Whitehead School of Diplomacy, in partnership with the United Nations University and the United States Institute of Peace, hosted a panel discussion “Religion in Multilateralism: Dodging the Pitfalls of Extremism” at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The panel addressed the role of religion in diplomacy as a source of shared values and as a means to promote peace. Designed as a conversation between leading experts and audience members, the forum sought to address: How can education help avoid the pitfalls of stereotyping and polarization? What can individuals and institutions do to promote a healthier understanding of religion? Can we find a new model for engaging religion in constructive ways through education and multilateral organizations? Ambassador John Menzies moderated the discussion among Dr. Qamar-ul Huda, U.S. Institute of Peace; Dr. David Little, Harvard University; Rev. Dr. David Steele, International Center for Conciliation; Dr. Gisella Webb, Seton Hall University. Twenty-five graduate and undergraduate students from the Whitehead School and more than 100 representatives from permanent missions and NGO's participated in the forum.

Ambassador Grossman Joins Campus Community As Visiting Scholar
The Whitehead School is pleased to announce the appointment of Ambassador Marc Grossman as the Tom & Ruth Sharkey Endowed Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the Spring 2008 semester. Ambassador Grossman will be on campus to meet with students in a series of workshops designed to offer students a first-hand perspective of diplomacy and leadership in the U.S. Department of State. Ambassador Grossman's third and final visit will take place on Wednesday, 9 April at 1pm and will center on the topic of "Energy Security and the Environment." The workshop will be held in the Diplomacy Room in McQuaid Hall. All students are welcome to attend. No pre-registration is necessary.

Dr. Balmaceda Examines Energy Policy As Foreign Policy
Associate Professor Margarita M. Balmaceda’s book Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia’s Power, Oligarchs’ Profits and Ukraine’s Missing Energy Policy, 1995–2006 was published in December 2007 by Routledge.
Dr. Balmaceda investigated how Russia has influenced its neighbors’ dependency on Russian energy supplies to achieve its foreign policy goals, focusing in particular on relations with Ukraine. Based on a multitude of primary Ukrainian and Russian sources, the book examines important events such as Russia’s January 2006 suspension of gas supplies to Ukraine, and the implications for Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution,” other post-Soviet states and Western Europe.
Dr. Balmaceda’s research was conducted in three countries, the United States, Germany, and Ukraine. Many of the ideas developed in this book were discussed in Dr. Balmaceda’s Spring 2006 graduate seminar on Foreign Policies of Russia and the Post-Soviet States at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.
The book was made possible by a Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany and conducted at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and the German Foreign Policy Association (DGAP) in Berlin.

Dr. Assefaw Bariagaber Receives International Honors
From November 18-20, 2007, Dr. Assefaw Bariagaber visited Lima, Peru for the 25th annual meeting of the Association of Third World Studies. The ATWS is the largest professional organization in the world devoted to the study of the Third World. At this event Dr. Bariagaber was recognized as the winner of the 2006 Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Memorial Scholarship Award for the Best Article on Africa published in The Journal of Third World Studies for "United Nations Peace Operations in Africa: A Cookie Cutter Approach?" in Volume 23, No. 2, Fall 2006 issue. In addition, The Association for Third World Studies presented Dr. Bariagaber with the Toyin Falola Award for Best Book of Africa for his outstanding work Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile, and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa, Ashgate Press (UK), 2006. To learn more about Dr. Bariagaber's recent publications and research visit the Whitehead School Faculty Directory. More information on the ATWS can be found here.

Whitehead Envoy Makes Its Debut
The Whitehead Envoy is the newest student-run publication. The first edition, now available throughout campus, explores issues ranging from global warming to international development and even sports diplomacy. Sponsored by the Whitehead School of Diplomacy, this monthly publication seeks to be a creative forum for students to write, read, and engage each other with thought-provoking analytical journalism. Focusing on international affairs, questions of human rights, political economy and a range of other international topics, the Envoy staff hopes to not only disseminate information, but to inspire greater interest in international relations among students, faculty and staff of all majors and colleges within the University community.

Lessons In Vatican Diplomacy
Students from the Whitehead School traveled to New York recently for a special meeting with Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Permanent Representative of the Vatican’s Observer Mission to the United Nations. The trip from campus to midtown began with a bus ride briefing by Associate Dean, Dr. Courtney Smith, on the Vatican’s diplomatic involvement at the U.N. At the Mission, Archbishop Migliore took questions from Diplomacy students on issues ranging from the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, to the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals and AIDS in Africa. His eminence also spoke about his role and responsibilities at the U.N. Mission and his career as an ambassador of the Vatican around the world.

Center For Global Health Studies Launches New Journal
Global Health Governance the new peer-reviewed journal, published by the Whitehead’s School’s Center for Global Health Studies is now available online at http://www.ghgj.org. Published bi-annually, Global Health Governance provides a platform for multidisciplinary academics and practitioners to explore global health issues and their implications for governance and security at national and international levels. Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Associate Professor at the Whitehead School, is the Center’s director and is also the Editor-in-Chief of Global Health Governance. The new publication, Huang explains, “is Seton Hall’s only peer-reviewed journal and the first in the nation explicitly devoted to the new health security paradigm.” The debut issue explores how citizens’ health affects the state’s political, economic and social stability and viability as well as its international presence.

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