University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Thomson Hall, home of the Jackson School
Established	1909 as the Department of Oriental History, Literature, and Institutions^[1]
School type	Public
Director	Resat Kasaba
Location	Seattle, Washington, USA
Homepage	jsis.washington.edu

The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies is a school within the University of Washington's College of Arts and Sciences, in Seattle, Washington. The school's name honors Henry M. Jackson, a former U.S. Senator from the state of Washington.

The Jackson School manages undergraduate and graduate academic programs in International Studies and regional studies. In addition to International Studies, the undergraduate programs include Asian, Canadian, European, Latin American, and Jewish studies, as well as comparative religion. The graduate programs include China; Japan; Korea; Middle East; Russian, East European and Central Asian; South Asian; and Southeast Asian studies; as well as comparative religion. The school also offers an accelerated 10-month Master of Arts in Applied International Studies (MAAIS) for professionals seeking to advance their careers in foreign affairs.^[2]

The Jackson School also hosts eight National Resource Centers, listed below:

Canadian Studies Center
Center for Global Studies
Center for West European Studies
East Asia Center
Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies
Middle East Center
South Asia Center
Southeast Asia Center

Through its curriculum, research, and professional events, the school is "committed to regional, cross-cultural, and comparative studies" and offers interdisciplinary, courses cross-listed with other departments. Additionally, students in the Jackson School have the opportunity to work with world-renowned faculty in international studies, including Joel Migdal (Middle East studies), Kenneth B. Pyle (Japan studies & founder of the National Bureau of Asian Research), and Wolfram Latsch (international political economy & former lecturer at Oxford) among others. Overall, the various programs allow for a variety of approaches to study, ranging from economics to area studies to sociology to geography.

In addition to university professors, the Jackson School also invites practitioners of foreign affairs to teach certain undergraduate and graduate courses. These individuals include former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Darryl N. Johnson^[3] and Washington state Congressman Adam Smith.^[4] Specifically, these expert policy practitioners often teach policymaking courses with an emphasis on development of professional skills. Most prominently, the practitioners instruct students in Task Force. Task Force, according to the Jackson School's 2014 Task Force Handbook, Task Force, "seeks to equip its students with the conceptual and analytical tools and knowledge needed to help make sense of complex global issues and processes". This capstone course, originally modeled on classes in Princeton University's international relations program, is taken by undergraduate Jackson School majors since 1983; In Task Force, small groups of students write a 200-page policy recommendation papers on topics chosen by their respective instructors.

References

↑ Yang, Anand. A Hundred years of the Henry M. Jackson School: Engaging Minds | Engaging the World, 1909-2009. Seattle: The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, 2009.
↑ http://www.appliedinternationalstudies.uw.edu
↑ "National Security Advice--in 500 Words or Less". A description of a course in the Jackson School taught by Ambassador Darryl Johnson. University of Washington Arts and Sciences Newsletter, Summer 2007. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
↑ "Countering Al-Qaeda's Ideology: Re-Assessing U.S. Policy Ten Years After 9/11" (PDF). A Task Force Report written by Jackson School undergraduates under the direction of Washington state Congressman Adam Smith. University of Washington Libraries. Retrieved October 8, 2011.

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Member schools

North America	School of International Service (American University) Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Carleton University) School of International and Public Affairs (Columbia University) Sanford School of Public Policy (Duke University) Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University) Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University) John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University) Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University) Sam Nunn School of International Affairs (Georgia Institute of Technology) Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton University) Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Syracuse University) Bush School of Government and Public Service (Texas A&M University) Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (University of California, San Diego) Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver) University of Maryland, College Park Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (University of Michigan) Humphrey School of Public Affairs (University of Minnesota) University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Southern California School of International Relations Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (University of Texas at Austin) Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (University of Washington) Jackson Institute for Global Affairs (Yale University)

Europe	Graduate Institute Geneva Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris London School of Economics Moscow State University Saint Petersburg State University Stockholm School of Economics University of St. Gallen

Asia	Korea University Ritsumeikan University Seoul National University Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore)

Australia	University of Queensland

Affiliate member schools

North America	Brandeis University National Foreign Affairs Training Center DePaul University Florida International University Fordham University George Mason University Monterey Institute of International Studies Munk School of Global Affairs New York University North Carolina State University Pardee School of Global Studies Pennsylvania State University Pepperdine University Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center Rutgers University John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations Stanford University University of Miami University of Oregon

Europe	Hertie School of Governance University of Economics, Prague Diplomatic Academy of Vienna IE School of Arts and Humanities Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

Asia	International University of Japan Utsunomiya University National Chengchi University Ewha Womans University Nanyang Technological University Waseda University

South America	Universidad Externado de Colombia

Africa	Al Akhawayn University

Australia	University of Sydney

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