Fletcher and the Atlantic Council

In case you missed it, the coming academic year will be the first for a new partnership between Fletcher and the Atlantic Council, designed to foster scholarly exchange and public outreach initiatives.

In a spring email to the community, Dean Stavridis wrote:

For many reasons, the Atlantic Council is an ideal partner for The Fletcher School.  A leading non-partisan think tank in the field of international affairs, the Council shares Fletcher’s commitment to fostering a more secure and prosperous world through multidisciplinary approaches.  Its headquarters provide an ideal location for convening conferences, workshops and events that resonate throughout the policy community, offering rich new opportunity for faculty and students.  Its scholars and leadership — many Fletcher alumni among them — are among the world’s top thinkers, analysts and creative problem solvers.

And the press release announcing the partnership said:

This ambitious partnership matches one of the most creative and forward-thinking foreign policy think tanks with one of the world’s premier graduate institutions for international affairs. The Fletcher School will work with the Atlantic Council to further expand both organizations’ missions of catalyzing smart solutions to some of today’s most pressing global challenges.

 “The Fletcher School is at the top of its game in cultivating innovative problem solvers who are fluent across disciplines and producing superior scholarship on major international trends and challenges,” said Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe.  “This partnership offers both of our organizations the chance to magnify our impact through work that draws upon our shared beliefs in democracy, freedom, trade, and openness.”

“This partnership is a perfect synergy of expertise and resources, harnessing the intellectual fire power of both institutions toward solving complex international issues,” said Admiral James Stavridis, Dean of The Fletcher School and former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.  “Our combined global networks, anchored by headquarters in DC and Boston, can more effectively move that knowledge into the public sphere, where it will have the biggest impact.”

It will be exciting to see what the partnership will bring throughout the year.