"Faith-based, Rights-based, Results-based: A Conversation on Humanitarian Action" with Nancy Lindborg (President, Mercy Corps) and Michael Barnett, September 14, 2009
The Freeman Center for International Economic Policy identifies the major challenges of an increasingly interdependent
global economy, mobilizes resources and talents
to analyze the nature of these challenges, and designs
effective policy responses to address them.
The International Fellows Program brings accomplished
mid-career professionals from designated developing nations
and emerging democracies to the United States for a year
of professional development and related academic study
and cultural exchange.
"The term ‘global policy’ has replaced ‘foreign policy’ and ‘international
affairs’ for good reasons. The traditional
view that the important policy-relevant
relationships among nations simply consist
of a few well-recognized channels
misses much of how the world now
works. ‘Global policy’ better describes the reality of a broad range of public
and private actors in the policymaking
process and the myriad connections
among groups across national borders.
"Moreover, the term ‘global policy’
should remind us that much nominally ‘domestic’ policy at the national, state,
and local levels has a very real global
dimension, either because it is constrained
by factors beyond national borders
or because its effects extend beyond
the nation-state. So teaching, research,
and public participation in the Global
Policy area of the Institute focuses on
those aspects of policy that are most
global, such as national security, human
rights, economic development, and
many aspects of international policy
cooperation."
