New Internship Opportunity: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program is pleased to partner with the Stanford Global Studies Internship Program to provide a new internship opportunity for Stanford students. This is a great research opportunity in the heart of Washington D.C. Priority will be given to Global Studies Minor students specializing in Iran.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a unique global network of policy research centers in Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, India, and the United States. Our mission, dating back more than a century, is to advance peace through analysis and development of fresh policy ideas and direct engagement and collaboration with decisionmakers in government, business, and civil society. Working together, our centers bring the inestimable benefit of multiple national viewpoints to bilateral, regional, and global issues.

Deadline to apply: Wednesday, February 6, 2019. 
Website: http://carnegieendowment.org/
Internship City: Washington DC
Internship Description:

Book-related research, in Persian and in English to assist Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East.
He is a regular contributor to the Atlantic, and has also written for Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Economist, and the Washington Post. He is a frequent guest on the PBS NewsHour, NPR, Charlie Rose, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and has also been on the Colbert Report, the Today Show, and NPR’s Fresh Air.

Sadjadpour regularly advises senior U.S., European, and Asian officials and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress. He has lived in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East (including both Iran and the Arab world) and speaks Persian, Italian, Spanish, and proficient Arabic. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, teaching a class on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East.
He has written on Iran and the Middle East through the prism of neuroscience, cinema, satire, and sexuality, and his recent publications include “Ayatollah Machiavelli: How Ali Khamenei Became the Most Powerful Man in the Middle East.” He was previously an analyst with the International Crisis Group, based in Tehran and Washington. In 2007, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Internship Dates: 8 weeks in the summer
Desired Intern Qualifications: Persian reading skills, excellent English writing skills

Time of Year: Summer

Funding: $6,000 Stipend
Open To: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Co-term, Master's
 

More information and to apply: https://sgs.stanford.edu/global-studies-internship-program/apply/application