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Chuck Brooks

Chuck Brooks
Class of ‘81


In the government realm, the program prepared me for a career that has included working for the Director of Voice of America, handling defense and foreign affairs issues for a US Senator, and helping set up the legislative affairs shop at the Department of Homeland Security.

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Thank you for perusing our CIR website! We are proud to share more than 75 years of academic experience in the international relations field, offering a unique choice in international graduate education. We are the nation's oldest graduate program in international affairs and once admitted, you will have access to over 200 regular graduate courses and faculty at our University. In this section of the website, you can: find a more detailed introduction to the program by our Chairman, Professor Duncan Snidal; learn about the program's intellectual orientation and history; read about the achievements of recent cohorts; and meet some past winners of the prestigious Morton A. Kaplan Prize.