Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

From Powerbase
(Redirected from School of Foreign Service)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (known at the university as SFS) is a school within Georgetown University which specialises in international affairs. It was founded in 1919 by the dean, a Catholic priest and fanatical anti-communist called Edmund Walsh, who whilst at Georgetown had worked at the US War Department on a programme “designed to mobilise higher education’s resources for the war effort".[1] Walsh is described by his biographer as a "proponent of American exceptionalism" who "viewed the [American] nation as a beacon of liberty and equality for the world.”[2] During the 1930s Walsh publicly opposed Roosevelt’s New Deal measures and during the cold war he endorsed a nuclear first strike on the basis that the Soviet were inherently immoral.[3] Expressing an ideological zeal common amongst neo-conservatives today, Walsh advocated what he called “the argument of strength justly and righteously employed.[4]


Former Deans

  • Dean Keogh – was a "former" CIA operative who transformed the SFS in to a prime recruiting ground for the CIA and similar organizations.

Affiliations

Centers at the SFS include: Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) | BMW Center for German and European Studies (CGES) | Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) | Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at SFS-Qatar | Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) | Center for Security Studies (CSS) | Mortara Center for International Studies

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.5
  2. ↑ ibid., p. xv
  3. ↑ ibid., p. xvi
  4. ↑ ibid., p.141
Retrieved from "https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Edmund_A._Walsh_School_of_Foreign_Service&oldid=203988"