PISP Fellowship

The Program on International Security Policy (PISP) Fellowship is an undergraduate fellowship established in the University of Chicago by the Program on International Security Policy. Its main focus is on theories of international relation and is heavily rooted in the ideas of realism.

Description

Fellows participate in active discussions, workshops and are invited to dinners with outside speakers. The fellowship is an important part of PISP and is an excellent way to gain exposure to the discipline of international politics in academia and policy making.

Directors and eligibility

The Fellowship is run by John Mearsheimer, Robert Pape, and Charles Glaser, all of them renowned theoreticians in the field of international politics and security. Every year around 20 University of Chicago students are nominated to participate in the program and a few of those are then selected as PISP Fellows. Most nominated students are selected because of their academic record, interest in the fields at hand, recommendations from previous fellows or faculty members and overall excellence. It is considered a high honor to be invited to join the fellowship and is often used as a launching pad for careers in academia and/or foreign affairs fields.

Speakers

Since it is the most important part of the program, the discussions and workshops are always led by high-profile academics who have established reputations in academia and the political world. Speakers from most elite universities in America and Europe, as well as members of the foreign policy, defense and intelligence communities have participated in the Fellowship.

Some of the speakers (and their organizations) that have participated in the program include:
*Michael Gordon, New York Times
*Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
*Dominic Johnson, Princeton University Society of Fellows
*Michael C. Williams, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
*Michael Massing, Columbia Journalism Review
*Fred Halliday, London School of Economics
*Merrill A. McPeak, Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
*Kenneth Waltz, Columbia University, Institute of War and Peace Sudies
*Stephen Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations
*Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress
*Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
*Keven Ruby, University of Chicago
*Emily Goldman, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
*John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
*James Dobbins, RAND Corporation
*Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University
*Lora Viola, University of Chicago
*Stephen Walt, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
*Jonathan Tucker, Monterey Institute of International Studies
*Joel Westra, University of Chicago
*Chaim Kaufmann, Lehigh University
*Audrey Kurth Cronin, Congressional Research Service
*Edward Rhodes, Rutgers University
*David Kang, Dartmouth College
*David Edelstein, Georgetown University
*Alexander Downes, University of Chicago
*Steven Miller, Harvard University
*Paul Bracken, Yale University
*Thomas Berger, Boston University
*Paul Kennedy, Yale University
*Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan University
*Barnett Rubin, New York University
*Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
*Mary Habeck, Yale University
*Leon Sigal, Social Science Research Council
*Daniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame
*Kamal Sadiq, University of Chicago
*Matthew Kocher, University of Chicago
*Vincent Cannistraro, Former Chief of Counter-Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency
*Gerald Steinberg, Bar Ilan University
*Mia Bloom, Hofstra University
*Andrew Marshall, Department of Defense
*Robert Pape, University of Chicago
*Sebastian Rosata, University of Chicago
*Richard Andres, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base
*Stephen Biddle, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
*Richard Falkenrath, Office of Homeland Security
*John Zogby, Zogby International
*Frank Gavin, University of Texas
*Samantha Power, Harvard University
*Gary Milhollin, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
*Sheri Berman, Princeton University
*Paul Huth, University of Michigan
*Stuart Kaufman, University of Kentucky
*Stephen P. Cohen, The Brookings Institute
*Daniel Byman, RAND Corporation
*Victor Utgoff, Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)
*Stathis Kalyvas, University of Chicago
*John Mueller, Ohio State University
*Stephen Van Evera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Tanisha Fazal, Harvard University
*Michael Barnett, University of Wisconsin
*Andrew Marshall, Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon
*William Wohlforth, Dartmouth College
*Morton Halperin, Council on Foreign Relations
*Peter Feaver, Duke University