New Summer Program in Foreign Affairs for High School Students

NORWOOD, Mass., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The presidential campaign season is heating up -- and so is the rhetoric about American foreign policy. How does one get a grounding in foreign affairs? For some, it's through participating in multi-day foreign policy crisis simulations and learning from leading policy scholars and practitioners. This summer, next generation policy makers and world leaders will spend two weeks at the EXPLO Foreign Affairs program on the campus of Yale University.

This new two-week program for high school students was developed through a partnership of Foreign Affairs, a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Exploration Summer Programs, an international leader in academic enrichment.

Can the next generation of American policymakers manage to hold things together and take the world to new heights, or will American and Western decline trigger chaos or renewed conflict? According to Dr. Gideon Rose, Editor of Foreign Affairs, "No issues are more important, no time is too soon to start learning about them, and there is no better way to do so than through this introduction to American foreign policy taught by the staff of Foreign Affairs."

Dr. Rose is a world expert on American foreign policy. In addition to editing Foreign Affairs and writing extensively on American foreign policy issues, Dr. Rose was the Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was also the Associate Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. He has taught American foreign policy at Columbia and Princeton and is the author of How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle (Simon & Schuster, 2010).

Moira Kelly, Executive Director of Exploration, says, "For curious and motivated students, this will be an extraordinary opportunity including trips to the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations."

This isn't Dr. Rose's first experience with Exploration Summer Programs. Ms. Kelly explains, "Gideon attended Exploration as a high school student. He found the program intellectually inspiring. With the development of EXPLO Foreign Affairs, he will be inspiring the next generation of thinkers."

To learn more about EXPLO Foreign Affairs, go to: http://www.explo.org/focus/foreignaffairs. To learn more about all of Exploration's summer programs for students ages 9 through 17 years old, go to: http://www.explo.org.

About Exploration Summer Programs

Exploration Summer Programs (http://www.explo.org) creates a dynamic environment of intellectual inquiry, responsible decision making and spirited adventure. Based in Norwood, MA, the Exploration curriculum allows students to investigate subjects they are not likely to encounter during the school year. Courses are not for credit and ungraded. More than 400 courses and workshops are offered each session. Exploration has more than 50,000 alumni. Exploration Summer Programs is operated by Exploration School, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization.

Contact:
Bre McKenna
Coordinator, Focus Programs
781.762.7400

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