Academy Programs
Annual Awards Luncheon: Recognizing Contributions to Diplomacy
The Academy annually grants the prestigious Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy, the Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis of Foreign Affairs, and the Douglas Dillon Book Award to individuals for their significant contributions to the field of diplomacy. This ceremony is held each year in December in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the US Department of State.
Read about the 2007 luncheon and award winners
Diplomacy and Democracy
A key issue in US foreign policy is whether the US should promote political stability or encourage democratic reform abroad. This debate has increasing relevance in light of the rising challenges of extremism and regional instability. Although some frame the debate of democracy promotion and stability in terms of pursing one at the expense of the other, the American Academy of Diplomacy’s newly launched Diplomacy and Democracy program seeks to reframe this debate, asking what tools are at our disposal to balance both our strategic interests in stability with our national values.
Read more about the Diplomacy and Democracy project
Diplomacy and Terrorism
In 2006 and 2007, the Academy sponsored panel discussions
and events in Chicago and Los Angeles to discuss the role of diplomacy
in the war on terror.
Read
more about the Academy’s activities on diplomacy and terrorism
Foreign Affairs Budget of the Future Project
While the US is faced with several pressing foreign policy challenges including failing and failed states, Islamic fundamentalism, and the impact of globalization, the foreign policy tools at its disposal to meet these challenges are increasingly under-resourced, according to several recent studies. The American Academy of Diplomacy has undertaken a new study to fill the knowledge gap of what budget will enable the State Department and the Foreign Service to accomplish their missions in classic diplomacy, public diplomacy, development diplomacy, and crisis response.
Read more about the FAB Project
Genocide Prevention
Task Force
Preventing
Crimes Against Humanity:
Strengthening America's Ability to Respond
In an effort to enhance the US government's
capacity to recognize and respond to emerging threats of mass atrocities
around the world, the Academy partnered with the US
Institute of Peace and the Holocaust
Museum to launch a Genocide Prevention Task Force on November 13,
2007. The Task Force, co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeline
Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, will produce concrete
recommendations in a report to be released in 2008. Drawing on expert
working groups, Task Force members will produce recommendations aimed
at influencing US policy to enable America to respond in an effective
manner to future atrocities.
Read more about the Genocide Prevention Task Force
View
video of Task Force launch
Integrating Instruments of
Power and Diplomacy
The Academy and the RAND Corporation are
jointly sponsoring a study on how coordination can be improved
among military, diplomatic, business, and non-governmental actors to enhance
US and international security.
Joseph J. Sisco Memorial Forum
In honor of the late Joseph J. Sisco, Chairman
of the Academy from 1999-2004, AAD is proud to sponsor the Joseph J. Sisco
Memorial Forum series. This is a series of events dedicated to the discussion
of pertinent themes in US foreign policy.
Access a summary of a recent Sisco Memorial event held in Minneapolis on UN Peackeeping
Read
more about the Joseph J. Sisco Memorial Forum
Leonard Marks Foundation Essay Contest
The Academy sponsors the Leonard Marks Foundation
Essay Contest to encourage creative thought on diplomacy. Participants
in the contest submit papers framed as Action Memorandums to the Secretary
of State that propose policy recommendations addressing specific challenges
to American diplomacy. The goal of the contest is to encourage applicants
and the schools that they represent to think creatively about the role
and uses of public diplomacy in promoting and implementing a realistic
and practical foreign policy.
This contest was named for and is supported
by the former chairman of the Academy’s Executive Committee.
Read
more about the Leonard Marks Foundation Essay Contest
Philip Merrill Fellowship
The American Academy of Diplomacy, in partnership
with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns
Hopkins University, awards the Philip Merrill Fellowship for a winning
essay on the practice of American diplomacy. This fellowship provides
one half of the SAIS tuition for both years of study.
Read
more about the Philip Merrill Fellowship
Archived Programs
Ansary Program
In 2004, the Academy began an innovative
program to enhance public understanding of US foreign policy objectives,
focusing on the issues facing American diplomacy in the 21st century.
The program features lectures, town-hall discussions, and papers focused
on specific issues, and was generously funded by a grant from the Honorable
Hushang Ansary.
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More about the Ansary Program
Diplomacy and Rising Powers
In June 2007, the Academy collaborated with
the World Affairs Councils to launch a series of lectures and presentations
known as the “World’s Rising Powers Series,” which aims
to educate a public beyond domestic borders on foreign policy issues.
Read
more about the "World's Rising Power Series"
