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Jackson Receives 2013 Fulbright Scholarship to IEA Seminar in the UK

New Members Join Africa Atlanta 2014 International Board

Published June 9, 2013 in Global Atlanta. Click here to read the full article >

Ayanda Francis

Economics and International Affairs Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

May 22, 2013 — Senior Economics and International Affairs student, Ayanda Francis, has been awarded the prestigious 2013 Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship. She is one of twenty undergraduate students chosen from throughout the country for their dedication, leadership, planning, cultural adaptability, and strong communication skills.

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Alumni Profiles

Kristin Lundberg

Kristin Lundberg

BS IAML 2006

Kristin Lundberg's current post as a foreign affairs officer at the State Department required 14 interviews over the course of two days for one of only a few hundred fellowship slots coveted by nearly 700 finalists.  She had roughly a 5% chance of getting the job at State, but succeeded.  She works in CO.NX (pronounced “connex”), an office within the Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) at the U.S. State Department. IIP is the State Department’s public diplomacy (PD) communications bureau, leading it's support for U.S.

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2012 Sam Nunn Policy Forum

INTA's Dr. Jenna Jordan Referenced in the New Yorker—May 6, 2013

"It is also far from clear that killing leaders is even a reliable means of disrupting terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. Jenna Jordan, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Aaron Mannes, of the University of Maryland, have separately reviewed dozens of past campaigns by governments to destroy terrorist organizations and found that culling leaders works in some instances—especially when terrorist groups are young and small—but not in others. The approach is particularly ineffective against religious organizations, which tend to regroup and escalate violence in response to such efforts."

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