Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy

 
ADA is a school of international affairs and business dedicated to preparing innovative global leaders and to promoting useful collaborative research on diplomacy, international affairs and business. Currently, we offer Executive Education, Degree Programs and English Language Instruction. Because of this combination of goals and programs, ADA has a curriculum that is genuinely unique.

ADA puts students at the very center of the its community, giving them the opportunity to tailor their education to meet their specific interests and needs. They challenged to find solutions for today’s most pressing issues. ADA promotes initiative, teamwork and collaboration that are essential skills for future leaders.

Founded by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chartered by a Presidential decree, ADA offers the perfect setting to conduct academic and policy research on regional and international topics. ADA plays a significant role in developing a productive research climate and in stimulating a forum for innovative ideas in Azerbaijan.

It is these compelling differences – a singular focus on international affairs and business, an innovative model of learning, a unique setting for collaborative research – that are already making ADA a unique center of learning in an increasingly strategic region of which Azerbaijan is part.

www.ada.edu.az
 
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna 

In 1754 the Empress Maria Theresa founded the Oriental Academy to train young men for the diplomatic service of the Habsburg monarchy. Out of the Oriental Academy evolved first the Consular Academy and in 1964 the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, which in 1996 was granted the status of an independent public training institution. The Academy is thus one of the oldest of its kind worldwide.

The Diplomatic Academy is a postgraduate professional school, dedicated to preparing talented university and college graduates for international careers and positions of leadership in international organizations, the EU, in public service and in international business. The main training areas encompass international relations, political science, international and EU law, economics, history and languages. Moreover, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna offers Executive Education Programs and Summer Course for German language and Austrian studies. The Academy holds conferences and lectures with well-known figures from politics, economics and culture. 

The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna has a great international reputation and experience in the training of diplomats, international civil servants and managers which is strengthened due to its strong ties with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria. Students of the Academy have a good opportunity to visit the international organizations resident in Vienna (the IAEA, UNIDO, the OSCE, OPEC) and the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations. In addition, the Academy organizes study trips to the European Union in Brussels and Luxembourg, to the international organizations in Geneva and to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

www.da-vienna.ac.at
 
Georgetown University 


The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD), founded in 1978, is part of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and is the School's primary window on the world of the foreign affairs practitioner.

ISD studies the practitioner's craft: how diplomats and other foreign affairs professionals succeed and the lessons to be learned from their successes and failures. Institute programs focus particular attention on the foreign policy process: how decisions are made and implemented.

ISD conducts its programs through a small staff and resident and nonresident associates. Associates, who include U.S. and foreign government officials and other foreign affairs practitioners, are detailed to or affiliated with the Institute for a year or more. The Institute seeks to build academic-practitioner collaborations around issues. The Institute's immediate constituency is Georgetown students. ISD staff and associates teach courses, organize lectures and discussions, mentor students, and participate on university committees.

ISD's larger constituency is the broader academic and policy community. The Institute reaches this group through its conferences, working groups, publications, and research activities, which include participation from the men and women who make and influence foreign policy. Also, ISD's international affairs case studies are utilized in classrooms across the United States and around the world.

www.georgetown.edu