Spring 2018 Internship:South Asia Studies

Spring Intern: South Asia Studies

American Enterprise Institute

Seasonal Full-Time Internship (1/8/18-5/25/18)
Unpaid 
Research

 Washington, D.C. 

DEADLINE: December 1st, 2017 at 1:00 pm

Description: 

An intern in the South Asia Studies program at AEI will work closely with staff in the foreign and defense policy studies department on research relating to South Asian politics, economics, and security issues. The intern will focus specifically on India, but may also work on Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or other regional topics as needed. Tasks will include gathering news clips from Indian and international news sources, researching Indian political economy and demographics, fact checking and editing articles, and producing literature reviews, as well as research concerning the domestic and foreign policies of India and Pakistan to support Sadanand Dhume's regular column and book research. Some administrative work will be required to help assist with events and helping the scholar prepare for any speaking engagements and other ad hoc assignments. Desired skills: familiarity with Excel, PowerPoint, and Lexis Nexis. Hindu/Urdu language skills are a plus.

Excellent organizational and research skills are required, as are intellectual curiosity and initiative. Applicants should have a strong interest in, and knowledge of, American politics, political institutions, and history. A background in the history of political thought and American political thought is a definite plus.

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Contact Information

LeeAnna Matarazzo

About The American Enterprise Institute

The American Enterprise Institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise. AEI pursues these unchanging ideals through independent thinking, open debate, reasoned argument, facts and the highest standards of research and exposition. Without regard for politics or prevailing fashion, we dedicate our work to a more prosperous, safer and more democratic nation and world. AEI is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics and social welfare. AEI’s purpose is to serve leaders and the public through research and education on the most important issues of the day. AEI research is conducted through seven primary research divisions: Economics, Foreign and Defense Policy, Politics and Public Opinion, Education, Health, Energy and the Environment and Society and Culture.

Headquarters
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Website
www.aei.org

Spring 2018 Internship: South Asia Media/Communications

 South Asia Program Communications and Media Internship

The Stimson Center

Seasonal Full-Time Internship
Unpaid 
NGO

 Washington, D.C. 

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2017 at 11:55 pm

Description: 

The South Asia Program at the Stimson Center offers one internship per season (fall, summer, and spring) to highly motivated and talented undergraduate and graduate students interested in the communications side of the program's work. Program events, publications, and multimedia outreach relate to our work on security and politics in India and Pakistan, including: strategic culture, inter-state rivalry, deterrence challenges, crisis dynamics, great power competition, and patterns of political violence.

The program seeks candidates for the Communication and Media Internship who are creative and self-motivated undergraduate or graduate students. A central component of the intership will be to assist with social media activities for the program's online policy platform South Asian Voices, which features over 100 contributors from the region writing on the security, politics, and economics of South Asia. Interns also support SAV's podcast, The Subcontinental, which features discussion of strategic issues in South Asia, and has featured guests such as Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller, long-time South Asia expert Dr. Steve Cohen, and musician Salman Ahmad of the band Junoon. Additionally, the intern may provide assistance with the program's open online course Nuclear South Asia: A Guide to India, Pakistan, and the Bomb, featuring video lectures presented by experts from India, Pakistan, and the United States.

As part of a small team and a growing platform that is looking to scale up further, interns will have the unique opportunity to make key contributions and gain valuable hands-on experience, working through diverse forms of communication and media from regular special SAV series, discussions on Facebook Live, podcast episodes, and short-video production. As a rapidly growing program, Stimson South Asia is looking for interns that will bring new ideas for innovation and development of our communications and media work.

Responsibilities may include:

• Providing communication and media support for program events
• Facilitating outreach with media in the United States and South Asia, including reviewing op-eds by program Director, Deputy Director, and Associates prior to publication
• Helping develop social media strategy to grow the platform's reach
• Assisting with planning, scripting, and editing the program's podcast
• Designing and scripting weekly newsletter
• Designing infographics and other promotional/marketing content
• Helping manage social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, and iTunes

Qualifications:

• Full-time interns preferred
• Hindu and/or Urdu skills a plus
• The ability to work independently and show initiative
• Experience with design (Adobe Photoshop, MS PowerPoint, Piktochart or similar programs), audio/video editing (Audacity, Garage Band, Adobe Audition, or video editing software), and geographic information systems (ArcGIS or related).
• Excellent writing and social media skills
• Background or demonstrated interest in journalism, communications, or public affairs

Applicants must be able to commit to a minimum of 20 hours per week. Preference may be given to those available 30+ hours per week for a minimum of 15 weeks. Please submit your resume, cover letter, and writing sample as a PDF.

Apply Here

About The Stimson Center

The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach. Founded in 1989, Stimson is celebrating more than a quarter-century of building effective solutions through pragmatic research and innovative analysis.

Headquarters

1211 Connecticut Ave NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20036, USA 

Website
www.stimson.org

Spring 2018 Internship- South Asia Research

Spring 2018 South Asia Program Research Internship

The Stimson Center

Seasonal Full-Time Internship
Unpaid 
NGO

 Washington, D.C. 

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 3, 2017 at 11:55 pm

Description: 
The South Asia Program at the Stimson Center offers fall, summer, and spring internships to highly motivated and talented undergraduate and graduate students. Interns work on research related to security and politics in India and Pakistan, including: strategic culture, inter-state rivalry, deterrence challenges, crisis dynamics, great power competition, and patterns of political violence. Depending on skill sets and interests, interns are assigned to ongoing program research projects and have an opportunity to lead a subset of a project. They may also work as an assistant editor for the program's online policy platform, South Asian Voices, featuring short-form analysis from South Asian scholars. Interns will also be responsible for attending and reporting on events and hearings in Washington related to program interest areas.

This internship provides an excellent opportunity for students and recent graduates to enhance their exposure to and understanding of the program's issues and the South Asia policy community in Washington. The Stimson Center South Asia Program offers a uniquely substantive internship experience that is research-oriented and may involve the opportunity to publish. The intern will also engage in organization life at Stimson, learning from broader interactions with staff, interns, and participation in Stimson events. 

Internships are volunteer experience only. All internships are unpaid.

Responsibilities may include:

• Reading and analyzing research documents and/or data using qualitative and/or quantitative methods
• Assisting the Director, Deputy Director, and Associates with substantive research and writing projects (including single or co-authored publication opportunities)
• Editing and designing publication of analytical pieces related to the security, politics, and economics of South Asia
• Helping run the program's online presence: social media and website content, design, and support
• Representing the program and reporting on events at think tanks, universities, and on Capitol Hill
• Organizing and taking notes at Stimson events and meetings
• Tracking and reporting on developments in the field
• Minimal administrative support

Strong candidates for this position will have several of the following qualifications:

• Strong interest in South Asia and/or strategic (especially nuclear) issues
• Excellent analytical, research, and writing skills
• The ability to work independently and show initiative
• Relevant language skills, especially Urdu, Hindi, and Chinese
• Experience with statistical analysis and platforms (R, Stata)
• Familiarity with programming languages, web scraping/web data extraction tools (Python)
• Experience with design (Adobe Photoshop, MS PowerPoint, Piktochart), audio/video editing (Adobe, Audacity, iMovie, Garage Band), and geographic information systems (ArcGIS)
• Precise editing skills - attention to detail (work experience in university writing center a plus)
• A record of academic excellence

Applicants must be able to commit to a minimum of 20 hours per week. Preference may be given to those available 30+ hours per week for a minimum of 15 weeks. Please submit your resume, cover letter, and writing sample as a single PDF.

Apply Here

About The Stimson Center

The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach. Founded in 1989, Stimson is celebrating more than a quarter-century of building effective solutions through pragmatic research and innovative analysis.

Headquarters

1211 Connecticut Ave NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20036, USA 

Website
www.stimson.org

Today! Come watch Banana Paradise at 3pm in Lindner Family Commons

A screening of the film Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂), preceded by a lecture on "Historiographies of Home in Wang Tong’s Cinema, Before and After the Lifting of the Martial Laws" by Dr. Guo-Juin Hong

Friday, October 27, 2017
3:00-3:30: Opening lecture by Dr. Guo-Juin Hong
3:30-5:30: Film screening of Banana Paradise
5:30-5:50: Closing remarks and post-screening Q&A

Where: The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
Washington, DC 20052

Description:

This is part of the film series “Martial Law and After: Reflection of the 30th Anniversary of the End of the Martial Law in Taiwan Cinema (解嚴三十年臺灣電影眾生相)” organized and co-sponsored by Taipei Cultural Center in New York, National Chengchi University, the Taiwan Academy, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U. S., Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kim-Renaud East Asian Humanities Lecture Series. Join us for a film screening of Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂, 1989, 116min), introduced and followed by a Q&A discussion with Dr. Guo-Juin Hong, Associate Professor at Duke University.

RSVP: Link

For more information about the event, visit the Sigur Center website

Co-sponsored by the Taiwan Academy, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U. S., the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Asia Events Weekly Roundup: October 29 - November 4

Every week, Asia on E Street compiles a list of upcoming free Asia-related think tank talks, panel discussions, and other such events in Washington DC.

Our Asia Events Weekly Roundup for October 29 - November 4:

India’s Post-Demonetization Policy Agenda

Monday, October 30, 10:00am-11:15am

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/10/30/india-s-post-demonetization-policy-agenda-event-5724

Exploring Religious Conflict in Myanmar

Monday, October 30, 6:15pm-7:30pm

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJXxPIC21vpJQryhtQCh3y5T9OHvVTOa797lpw6D0aXcx71A/viewform

A Work in Progress: A Conversation on Women and Girls in Afghanistan

Monday, October 30, 9:00am-10:30am

CSIS

https://www.csis.org/events/work-progress-conversation-women-and-girls-afghanistan

Book Launch: Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century with Richard McGregor

Monday, October 30, 12:45pm-2:00pm

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

https://www2.gwu.edu/~sigur/news/events/events2017/2017_oct30_AsiaReckoning.cfm

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and The Birth of Modern East Asia, 1876-1905

Monday, October 30, 4:00pm-5:30pm

Wilson Center

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-other-great-game-the-opening-korea-and-the-birth-modern-east-asia-1876-1905

Book Launch: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange

Tuesday, October 31, 12:00pm-1:30pm

Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia

https://pisa.elliott.gwu.edu/book-launch-enemies-partners-0

An Integrated Approach to the Himalayas: Report of the Working Group on the Himalayan Region

Tuesday, October 31, 12:00pm-1:30pm

Hudson Institute

https://www.hudson.org/events/1482-an-integrated-approach-to-the-himalayas-report-of-the-working-group-on-the-himalayan-region102017

Book Launch: Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War with Professor Gregg Brazinsky

Tuesday, October 31, 12:30pm-1:45pm

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

https://www2.gwu.edu/~sigur/news/events/events2017/2017_oct31_winningthirdworld.cfm

A Preview of U.S. and Philippine Priorities for the 2017 ASEAN & East Asia Summits

Tuesday, October 31, 10:00am-11:30am

Stimson Center

https://www.stimson.org/content/preview-us-and-philippine-priorities-2017-asean-east-asia-summits

CSIS Press Briefing: President Trump's Trip to Asia

Wednesday, November 1, 10:00am-11:00am

CSIS

https://www.csis.org/events/csis-press-briefing-president-trumps-trip-asia

From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange

Wednesday, November 1, 10:30am-11:30am

CSIS

https://www.csis.org/events/enemies-partners-vietnam-us-and-agent-orange

New team, new agenda? What the 19th Party Congress tells us

Thursday, November 2, 9:30am-11:45am

Brookings

https://www.brookings.edu/events/new-team-new-agenda-what-the-19th-party-congress-tells-us/

Trump’s Vision for Asia: What to Expect from the U.S. Presidential Visit to the Asia-Pacific Region

Thursday, November 2, 10:00am-12:00pm

Wilson Center

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/trumps-vision-for-asia-what-to-expect-the-us-presidential-visit-to-the-asia-pacific-region

The Dawn of a New Era: Readout of the 19th Party Congress

Friday, November 3, 10:30am-12:00pm

CSIS

https://www.csis.org/events/dawn-new-era-readout-19th-party-congress

China's 19th Party Congress: Implications for China and the United States

Friday, November 3, 2:30pm-3:45pm

Kissinger Institute (Wilson Center)

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/chinas-19th-party-congress-implications-for-china-and-the-united-states

Come to a Film Screening on Friday 10/27

A screening of the film Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂), preceded by a lecture on "Historiographies of Home in Wang Tong’s Cinema, Before and After the Lifting of the Martial Laws" by Dr. Guo-Juin Hong

Friday, October 27, 2017
3:00-3:30: Opening lecture by Dr. Guo-Juin Hong
3:30-5:30: Film screening of Banana Paradise
5:30-5:50: Closing remarks and post-screening Q&A

Where: The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
Washington, DC 20052

Description:

This is part of the film series “Martial Law and After: Reflection of the 30th Anniversary of the End of the Martial Law in Taiwan Cinema (解嚴三十年臺灣電影眾生相)” organized and co-sponsored by Taipei Cultural Center in New York, National Chengchi University, the Taiwan Academy, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U. S., Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kim-Renaud East Asian Humanities Lecture Series. Join us for a film screening of Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂, 1989, 116min), introduced and followed by a Q&A discussion with Dr. Guo-Juin Hong, Associate Professor at Duke University.

RSVP: Link

For more information about the event, visit the Sigur Center website

Co-sponsored by the Taiwan Academy, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U. S., the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Asia Report October 2017

The Face-Off in Doklam: Interpreting India-China Relations: 

 

The recent standoff between India and China on the Doklam plateau was the latest in an increasingly long history of conflict and unease along the nearly 2,500-mile border which has strained relations. Although the latest incursion by Chinese forces occurred in the Doklam region along Bhutan’s border with China, and not the Sino-Indian border, Indian personnel responded in kind to back up their Bhutanese neighbors.What is the background to this dispute and what does its disposition tell us about the state of India-China relations? Former Indian Foreign Secretary and diplomat Nirupama Rao recently delivered remarks at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies giving her insights on these questions.

Read the report here.

Professor David Shambaugh in the news

On 28 September 2017, Professor David Shambaugh participated in an event sponsored by Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, Germany, entitled "Engaging With China 'China's Future - Assessing the State of the People's Republic on the Eve of the 19th Communist Party Congess.'" Read about it HERE.

He has also recently wrote a piece for the South China Morning Post entitled "Reform or repression: what will the next five years bring for China?" about the upcoming 19th Party Congress in China. Read it here.

Asia Events Weekly Roundup: October 15 - October 21

Every week, Asia on E Street compiles a list of upcoming free Asia-related think tank talks, panel discussions, and other such events in Washington DC.

Our Asia Events Weekly Roundup for October 15 - October 21:

China's Rising Role in Central Asia and the Middle East with Prof. Pan Guang
Tuesday, October 17, 3:30pm-4:45pm

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

https://www2.gwu.edu/~sigur/news/events/events2017/2017_oct17_ChinaMiddleEast.cfm

Working Towards Clean Cars and Clear Skies in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta

Tuesday, October 17, 9:30am-11:30am

China Environment Forum (Wilson Center)

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/working-towards-clean-cars-and-clear-skies-los-angeles-hong-kong-and-the-pearl-river-delta

Are India-Pakistan Peace Talks Worth a Damn?

Tuesday, October 17, 3:30pm-5:30pm

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/10/17/are-india-pakistan-peace-talks-worth-damn-event-5713

Critical Perspectives on the Vietnam War

Tuesday, October 17, 3:30pm-5:30pm

The George Washington University

http://www2.gwu.edu/~sigur/assets/images/events/2017/vietnam%20war%20panel.jpg

How to Deal with Pakistan?

Wednesday, October 18, 3:00pm-4:30pm

United States Institute of Peace

https://www.usip.org/events/how-deal-pakistan

Book Launch: Cave of the Immortals: The Poetry and Prose of Bamboo Painter Wen Tong (1019–1079) with Professor Jonathan Chaves

Wednesday, October 18, 12:30pm-1:45pm

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

https://www2.gwu.edu/~sigur/news/events/events2017/2017_oct18_CaveoftheImmortals.cfm

The North Korean Nuclear Challenge and International Response

Thursday, October 19, 2017

The Heritage Foundation

http://www.heritage.org/asia/event/the-north-korean-nuclear-challenge-and-international-response

A Strategy for the Trans-Pacific Century

Thursday, October 19, 3:00pm

Atlantic Council

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/a-strategy-for-the-transpacific-century

May God Bless Manchukuo:  Manchuria and the transformation of Vatican-China relations with Prof. Thomas DuBois

Thursday, October 19, 12:30pm-1:45pm

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

https://www2.gwu.edu/~sigur/news/events/events2017/2017_oct19_VaticanChina.cfm

The Fait Accompli in the 21st Century Security Landscape: From Crimea to Doklam to the Spratly Islands

Thursday, October 19, 12:15pm-2:00pm

Stimson Center

https://www.stimson.org/content/%C2%A0fait-accompli%C2%A0-21st-century-security-landscape-crimea-doklam-spratly-islands

The 25th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities

Friday, October 20 - Saturday, October 21

GW Institute for Korean Studies

https://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/25th-hahn-moo-sook-colloquium-korean-humanities

North Korea Strategy Center Conference

On October 19th, from 2:30PM to 5:45PM, NKSC will be holding a half-day conference, discussing the recent North Korean issues with various non-governmental organizations related to this field. The panelists will include a former North Korean government official who has worked under the State Security Department and Office 39. 

The North Korea Strategy Center (NKSC) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization that envisions a free and open North Korea that upholds the fundamental human rights of all its people in a healthy democracy. 

For more information, and since NKSC has limited seating capacity, please RSVP at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/north-korea-inside-out-tickets-38381574322 

YSEALI Professional Fellows Program

In cooperation with

Call for Applications   YSEALI PROFESSIONAL FELLOWS PROGRAM  (SPRING 2018) Deadline: November 17, 2017     The American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) and the U.S Department of State, in cooperation with The United States - Indonesia Society (USINDO) are pleased to announce the application process and deadlines for the Spring 2018 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Professional Fellows Program. The YSEALI is the US government's signature program to strengthen leadership development as well as networking in Southeast Asia, particularly between young leaders from United States and Southeast Asia.   The YSEALI PFP Spring 2018 will be held from April 21 - June 2, 2018. This year will focus on the theme of governance and society. It is open to young political and policy leaders from Indonesia, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. The YSEALI PFP includes a week of political and policy discussions in Washington, DC; a month-long individual fellowship in an American office; and participation in a three-day global Professional Fellows Congress in Washington, DC. This exchange of ideas and knowledge will serve as a foundation on which to establish sustainable two-way partnerships between the young political and policy professionals from these Southeast Asian countries and their American counterparts, with the goal of strengthening good governance, enhancing economic empowerment, and increasing civic engagement. With the invaluable experience gained from this fellowship, the young leaders from Southeast Asia may identify their generation's greatest challenges in the region and develop ideas in tackling them.      Eligibility Requirements: Must be a citizen of Indonesia, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore or Thailand and have a professional background and project related to the legislative process and governance Between the ages of 25-35 Fluent in oral and written English Provide a comprehensive, well-conceived written framework for a project to benefit civil society or governance in your home country Self-directed and able to work effectively in cross-cultural settings Demonstrated commitment to public service Leadership potential in the government, private sector, or civil society Committed to organizing an 7-10 day program in their country for an American mentor Committed to become an active member in the YSEALI community Cannot hold a dual-US citizenship or have traveled on a J-1 VISA for a Department of State sponsored program in the past two years.   International Fellows Overview   The international fellows from each country will travel to Washington, DC for a 5-day program orientation and federal government overview as well as cultural outings.   Each fellow will participate in a 4-week intensive fellowship in a separate political, policy, or civil society office with day-to-day mentoring and guidance from a single point of contact, their fellowship host. The fellows will meet their American mentor, an ACYPL alumni, to attend meetings pertaining to current events in the area, and together will develop action plans for a series of follow-on activities to be conducted in the fellows' home country.    At the conclusion of the program, all international fellows will return to Washington, DC for a 3-day Professional Fellows Congress where they will interact and share their experiences with other international fellows from different programs.   Upon returning to their home countries, select international fellows will work with their American mentors to create an 7-10 day program in which the American mentor will visit each of fellows' places of employment to learn more about what they do, assist in the continuing implementation of their project, meet with local leaders, as well as enjoy cultural outings.     Application Instructions and Deadline:   The application is accessible through here or if you would like to see the program at-a-glance you can access this link first. Kindly note, we do not accept direct or hard copy submission. Eligible candidates are required to submit the complete application form byNovember 17, 2017 the latest. An incomplete or late submission will not be considered. If you were recommended or learned about this program from USINDO (ACYPL's in-country program partner), please indicate it in the application form.   Only shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by the panel consisting of representatives from ACYPL, U.S. Embassy, and USINDO.   Should you have any further inquiries and questions, please contact Mr. Elliot Bell-Krasnerat at Ebkrasner@acypl.org or Ms. Kaylee Boalt at kboalt@acypl.orgor by phone at +(1) 202-857-0999.