Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

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". 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.” 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. Expressing an ideological zeal common amongst neo-conservatives today, Walsh advocated what he called “the argument of strength justly and righteously employed.

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

• CSIS - Important hawkish think tank associated with Georgetown.
• Georgetown Security Studies Review