Diplomatic Studies

_{History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.} _{Abba Eban}

Masters Options:

(NEW) – MBA in International Public Relations – MBA (ENGLISH)

Bachelors Options:

Bachelor in International Diplomatic and Public Relations (ENGLISH)

Bachelor in Global Relations and Israeli Studies (ENGLISH)

_{In these courses students will learn about people and areas such as: Henry Kissinger, Bernard Lewis, Abba Eban, Golda Meir and the development of modern International Relations, Sephardic Jews and Conversos economic and negotiation roles in Catholic Spain, Northern Italian City States and the Sublime Porte during the Middle Ages, involvements in Dutch East India Company and growing worldwide trade, Anusim in West Indies and Brazilian Plantations, Jews in America, Jews in the diamond industry, Middle East (MENA) geopolitics, Jewish merchants in Imperial Russian Siberia, Kyakhta Treaties between Imperial Russia and Manchu China and more}

_{^{Czech Ambassador to Mongolia Jiri Brodsky and Finkelperel Executive Director Christopher Coles, Czech Consulate, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (March 2019)}}

_{^{Finkelperel Executive Director Christopher Coles at Mongolian Presidential Palace (June 2023)}}

^{Abba Solomon Eban, Israel’s representative at the United Nations during the independence struggle of 1948, its ambassador to both Washington and the United Nations during the Middle East war of 1956, and its foreign minister during the 1967 and 1973 Middle East wars. He helped arrange a critical meeting between the Zionist patriarch Chaim Weizmann and President Harry Truman in the weeks before Mr. Truman decided that the United States would recognize Israeli independence in 1948. He helped negotiate a critical security guarantee for Israel during the diplomatic fiasco that followed the 1956 invasion of the Sinai. He was Israel’s main contact with President Johnson in the tense diplomacy that preceded the 1967 Mideast war, and the following year he conducted some of Israel’s earliest secret contacts with King Hussein of Jordan. Mr. Eban. as representative of the world’s only Hebrew-speaking democracy, would send his supremely cultured voice using the King’s English into forensic combat. His orations, fierce in their defense of his country, were also marked by rich appeals to history, soaring visions of a peaceful Middle East ..}

Diplomacy for the Next Century, Yale University Press

^{Bernard Lewis, entered the School of Oriental Studies at the University of London (now the School of Oriental and African Studies), he had read widely and deeply in Hebrew and begun a lifelong study of languages, including Aramaic, classical and modern Arabic, Latin, Greek, Persian and Turkish. After the war, Mr. Lewis wanted to study in Arab countries, but as a Jew in the late 1940s and early ’50s, he would have been denied a visa after Israel’s independence. Refusing to lie about being a Jew, as others did, he switched his focus to Turkey and Iran during the Ottoman period. He happened to be in Istanbul in 1950 when the Turkish government opened the Imperial Ottoman Archives; he was the first Western scholar granted access to them.}

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