I am writing you to indicate my interest in applying for the Volunteer Student Internship Program listed on the Washington Headquarters Services’ webpage. This internship would be a great opportunity for me to learn the intricacies of the Defense Department’s role in policy formulation and execution. I am hoping to intern in the spring of 2016. I am pursuing a Master’s in International Affairs through American University’s Global Governance, Politics, and Security Program. My emphasis is on security risks that arise from great powers and non-state actors in the international system. To these ends, I have taken courses on great power politics, countering terrorism, insurgency/counterinsurgency, and intelligence in foreign policy. The takeaways
from these courses are that it takes an understanding of history, the motivations of the actors, their culture and traditions, organizational structures, and the availability of resources to execute foreign policy decisions. My relevant work experience includes internships at the Independence Institute in Colorado and the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. At the Independence Institute, I researched hydraulic fracturing and its impact on Colorado’s economy and its policies. At the Hudson Institute, my topic of focus was how the developing relationship between Russia and China in the political, economic, and military realms of their foreign policies would impact US foreign policy. Both of these internships provided me an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the topics through in-depth exploration. More importantly, I was diligent while researching the topics and write lengthily on them so my supervisors could later use my findings in their projects. I will bring the same amount of energy and diligence to the Defense Department. Working with the professionals at the Defense Department is a great opportunity to learn more about the intricacies of policy and how it interacts with other agencies at the federal level to achieve its objectives. I hope to contribute to these objectives through my commitment to excellence, ability to adjust to quickly changing situations, and ability to work well within a team setting. The volunteer program provided by the Department of Defense would be a great opportunity for me to gain practical experience in a field I see myself going into after I earn my Master’s. Additionally, exposure to other careers within the defense field would give me a better understanding of what programs I am suited for and provide me an insight into how I can take steps toward finding a career geared towards public service.
On the other hand, in The Slippery Slope to Preventive War, Neta Crawford questions the arguments put forward by the Bush administration and the National Security Strategy in regard to preemptive action and war. Crawford also criticizes the Bush administration as they have failed to define rogue states and terrorists as they have “blurred the distinction” between “the terrorists and those states in which they reside”. In Crawford’s point of view, taking the battle to the terrorists as self-defence of a preemptive nature along with the failure to distinguish between terrorist and rogue states is dangerous as “preventive war
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Why do you hope to intern at the White House? * I want to intern at the White house for three reasons. First I would like to gain insight into foreign policy. As an undergraduate, I have been extremely fascinated with foreign policy especially with regards to China. In a rapidly globalizing world, I recognize the importance that innovative, intelligent foreign policy plays in ensuring our safety and the American way of life.
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First, in the long run the negative effects of a military international intervention, even if against oppressive governments, could actually outweigh the positive ones. Moreover, coercive policy could, in fact, aggravate a conflict by providing grounds for long lasting hostility, aggression, or ev...
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Thousands of homeless animals are looking for forever homes in America. Volunteering is a great way to give to your community and socialize the animals at the shelters. Working with dogs and cats that have not had good starts in their lives helps them trust again. It helps animals get over the trauma they have had before they went to the shelter. Socializing makes the animal more adoptable and they are given a chance to get forever homes. Volunteer at your local humane society 's and help out the animals like I have worked with in shelters.
Whenever world politics is mentioned, the state that appears to be at the apex of affairs is the United States of America, although some will argue that it isn’t. It is paramount we know that the international system is shaped by certain defining events that has lead to some significant changes, particularly those connected with different chapters of violence. Certainly, the world wars of the twentieth century and the more recent war on terror must be included as defining moments. The warning of brute force on a potentially large scale also highlights the vigorousness of the cold war period, which dominated world politics within an interval of four decades. The practice of international relations (IR) was introduced out of a need to discuss the causes of war and the different conditions for calm in the wake of the first world war, and it is relevant we know that this has remained a crucial focus ever since. However, violence is not the only factor capable of causing interruption in the international system. Economic elements also have a remarkable impact. The great depression that happened in the 1920s, and the global financial crises of the contemporary period can be used as examples. Another concurrent problem concerns the environment, with the human climate being one among different number of important concerns for the continuing future of humankind and the planet in general.
During the course of time, I’ve learned many useful things that have led me to be the person I want to be today. From college classes to work experiences, I now have the ability to exceed upon internship experiences that can shape my perspective on life. The purpose of this paper is to summarize, reflect, analyze, and synthesize on my internship experience at the Children’s Home of Reading-Acute Partial Hospitalization Program.