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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".<ref>Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.5</ref> 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.”<ref>ibid., p. xv</ref> 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.<ref>ibid., p. xvi</ref> Expressing an ideological zeal common amongst neo-conservatives today, Walsh advocated what he called “the argument of strength justly and righteously employed.<ref>ibid., p.141</ref>


==Former Deans==
*[[Dean Keogh]] &ndash; was a "former" CIA operative who transformed the SFS in to a prime recruiting ground for the CIA and similar organizations.

==Affiliations==
*[[Georgetown University]] &ndash; SFS is one department within this university
*[[CSIS]] &ndash; a think tank where many SFS reside

==Notes==
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