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Students will gain a greater understanding of the changing nature of global economic production and output over the past half century as well as the relative importance of the factors behind those trends. They will examine the global data on shifts in norms, the decline in inter-state war and their relationship to broad social, environmental and economic change. (This may be data heavy but will not require econometrics). They will analyze priorities and risks highlighted in policy documents including US National Security Strategies over time in the context of global change. Individual students will focus coursework in on a particular (set of) policy implication(s) around a foreign policy tool/global policy issue (for example, USAID, EU trade policy, IMF/Basel reform, Pentagon strategy and budgeting or WHO pandemic preparedness). Students will create a set of proposals all targeted at the same specific senior national or international policymaker in development, trade, defense, migration or diplomacy designed to improve strategy, policy or practice in international relations to take account of the age of plenty. The emphasis of student engagement and assessment will be on short policy memo writing and presentation. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>