Program Overview

Institute for Politics and Strategy

The Institute for Politics and Strategy offers various undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as minors and research opportunities.

Undergraduate Degrees

• BS International Relations and Politics
• Bachelor of Science, Economics and Politics
• Minors:
  • Minor in International Relations and Politics
  • Minor in Cybersecurity and International Conflict
  • Minor in Politics and Public Policy

Graduate Degrees

• MS IRP
  • Admissions
  • Curriculum
  • MS IRP-AMP Curriculum
  • Sample Plan of Study
  • MS IRP-AMP Sample Plan of Study
  • Thesis
  • Tuition and Financial Aid
  • Internship and Career Opportunities
  • Networking Opportunities
• MITS

Courses

• Undergraduate Courses
• Graduate Courses

Research

• Postdoctoral Fellow program
• Carnegie Mellon University Journal of Politics and Strategy
• Research Lab
• Undergraduate Research for Credit
• Faculty Research
• Student Conferences

Washington Semester Program (CMU/WSP)

• Academics
• Application
• Costs and Fees
• Housing and Living
• Cohorts
  • Fall 2021
  • Spring 2021
  • Fall 2020
  • Spring 2020
  • Fall 2019
  • Spring 2019
  • Fall 2018
  • Spring 2018
  • Fall 2017
  • Spring 2017
  • Fall 2016
  • Spring 2016
  • Fall 2015
  • Spring 2015
  • Fall 2014
  • Spring 2014
• Internships
• Friedman Fellowships
• Alumni Engagement

News and Events

• Life After IPS
• Policy Forum
  • Spring 2022
    • January 27 - Christiaan Triebert
    • February 2 - Dr. Peter Highnam
    • February 9 - Keith Boykin
    • February 17 - Lives Uprooted: A Panel on the Transition in Afghanistan
    • February 24 - Steven Levitsky
    • February 28 - On the Brink: A Panel Discussion on Russia and Ukraine
    • March 23 - P.W. Singer
    • April 5 - Ukraine: A Road of Unjust Conflict
    • April 12 - Nicole Matejic
    • April 22 - Mayor Ed Gainey
  • Fall 2021
    • September 14 - Jennifer Golbeck
    • September 24 - Gloria Steele
    • October 8 - Panel Discussion: The Challenges of the Latino Community in the Pittsburgh Region
    • October 22 - Erica De Bruin
    • November 2 - General H.R. McMaster
    • November 11: US Military Spheres of Influence: A Veterans Day Panel Discussion
    • HRH Ambassador Reema Al Saud
  • Spring 2021
    • February 4 - Impact of the 2020 Election
    • February 12 - Chief Carmen Best
    • February 26 - Dr. Allison Clark
    • March 5 - Dr. RaShall Brackney
    • March 10 - Dr. Barry Eichengreen
    • March 26 - President Joe Biden's Foreign Policy: A panel discussion with Richard Grenell
    • April 8 - Becca Wasser and Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
  • Fall 2020
    • August 14 - Wyndee Parker
    • September 17 - Colin Dueck
    • September 18 - Harvey Milk Documentary and Discussion
    • September 23 - Dov Levin
    • September 29 - Amarnath Amarasingam
    • October 2 - Richard Grenell and Stuart Milk
    • October 7 - Panel Discussion: Women Leading Navy Technological Innovation
    • October 14 - Jennifer Buckner
    • October 22 - Jason England
    • October 27 - Robert O'Brien
    • October 29 - Jason Blazakis
    • November 2 - Mike Doyle
    • November 9 - Marcia Chatelain
    • November 12 - Conrad Tucker
    • November 18 - Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
    • December 1 - Serbia and Kosovo with Richard Grenell
    • December 4 - Barbara Barrett
    • Condoleezza Rice
  • Spring 2020
    • February 3 - John M. Carey
    • February 20 - Amarnath Amarasingam
    • March 2 - Rita Konaev
    • March 25 - Panel Discussion: Women Leading Navy Technological Innovation
    • April 2 - Colin Dueck
    • April 6 - Jason Blazakis
    • April 22 - Morris Fiorina
  • Fall 2019
    • September 10 - David McCormick
    • September 17 - Ariane Tabatabai
    • October 29 - Elizabeth Bodine-Baron
    • November 6 - John Mueller
    • November 19 - Michael Horowitz
  • Spring 2019
    • January 22 - Romanian Ambassador
    • January 29 - P.W. Singer
    • February 20 - Elizabeth Bodine-Baron
    • February 27 - Colonel Liam Collins
    • March 20 - Jorge Quiroga
    • April 4 - Robert Chesney
    • April 22 - Scott Sagan
  • Fall 2018
    • September 24 - David Ranz
    • September 26 - Debbie Lee James
    • September 27 - Congress to Campus
    • October 30 - Brazil Panel
    • November 13 - Eric Herschthal
    • November 14 - Clint Watts
    • November 27 - J.M. Berger
  • Spring 2018
    • February 14 - Anne Applebaum
    • February 16 - Khawar Nasim
    • February 21 - Aizaz Chaudhry
  • Fall 2017
    • October 13 - Joyce Mushaben
    • November 1 - Laura Chinchilla
    • November 10 - Anthony Foxx
    • November 13 - Elizabeth Erin Walsh
  • Spring 2017
    • March 7- Bert Rockman
    • March 27- Major General William Rapp
    • April 5- Morris Fiorina
    • April 24- Amarnath Amarasingam
  • Fall 2016
    • September 27- Barry Jackson and Tony Podesta
    • October 12- ADM John Richardson
    • October 28- GEN (ret.) Michael Hayden
    • October 31- GEN Daniel B. Allyn
    • November 10 - Melanie Marlowe
    • November 15- ADM (ret.) Dennis Blair
  • Spring 2016
    • February 18 - Norman Naimark
    • March 23 - Judge Douglas Ginsburg
    • March 28 - LTG H.R. McMaster
  • Fall 2015
    • September 23 - Daryl Grisgraber
    • October 8 - Rick Atkinson
    • October 9 - Olympia Snowe
    • October 12 - Combatants for Peace
    • October 26 - Michael S. Rogers
    • October 29 - Jan Mieszkowski
    • November 3 - Colin Clarke
    • November 9 - Paul Saint-Amour
    • November 10 - Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns
  • Spring 2015
    • January 29 - Luis Ball
    • March 27 - William Adams
    • April 13 - Rowena He
    • April 15 - Tom Karako
    • April 22 - Paul Brockmann
    • April 27 - Robert Mueller
    • May 1 - Michael S. Rogers
  • Fall 2014
    • September 30 - Andrew Bausch
    • October 7 - General Lloyd J. Austin III
    • October 10 - Justice David Souter
    • November 18 - Christopher Paul
    • December 4 - Morris Fiorina
  • Spring 2014
    • January 30 - Jacob Shapiro
    • February 7 - Peter Feaver
    • April 8- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • April 21 - Norman Augustine and Hunter Rawlings
    • May 6- Anna Pechenkina
  • Fall 2013
    • September 27- Karl W. Eikenberry
    • October 14- Anna Getmansky
    • October 15- Steven Brams
    • October 25- Matthew Dallek
    • November 7- Maren Leed
    • November 13- Robert Art
  • Spring 2013
    • January 23- Cristina Archetti
    • February 4- Ariel Levite
  • Fall 2012
    • September 10- David Satter
    • September 27- Tom Ridge
    • October 5- Stanley McChrystal
    • October 10- Ira Shapiro
    • October 17- Kori Schake
    • October 29- Eliot Cohen
    • November 13- Morris Fiorina
  • Spring 2012
    • April 25 - Dennis C. Blair
    • April 10 - Phillip Scanlan
    • March 6 - Elizabeth Jones
    • February 9 - Robert Zoellick
  • Fall 2011
    • November 28- Paul Brockmann
  • Spring 2011
    • February 23 - Moataz Fattah
    • March 15 - Sebastian Harnisch
    • March 24 - Howard Dean
    • March 31 - Robert Powell
    • April 1 - Three Big Players Symposium
    • April 25 - Debora Spar
    • April 26 - Blake Hounshell
  • Fall 2010
    • September 22 - Alonzo Fulgham
    • October 25 - Serhiy Kudelia
    • November 5 - Steve Forbes
    • November 16 - Kurt Campbell

Government and Military Engagements

• Executive Short Courses
  • US Special Operations Command Short Course
  • Defense Intelligence Agency Short Course
  • Executive Short Course on Emerging and Disruptive Threats
  • Executive Short Course on Artificial Intelligence
  • Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Security between 2016 and 2019
  • A Primer on the AI and Cybersecurity Landscape in 2018, and What May Come Next
  • National Defense University
• US Military and Intelligence Community Partnerships

Course Details

Politics and Digital Technology

Course Number: 84-368

This course explores the intersection of politics, democratic political thought, and digital spaces and online platforms. It examines the rights of online communities, drone warfare, trolling, connective action, algorithmic justice, and online privacy. The course relies on group discussion informed by reading and interacting with texts, both paper and pixelated.

Academic Year: Fall

Semester(s): Fall

Required/Elective: Elective

Units: 9

Location(s): Pittsburgh

Instructor(s):

• Janet Lawler

Schedule:

• Monday and Wednesday
• 10:10-11:30 AM

Elective course for the following IPS degrees:

• BS International Relations and Politics
• Additional Major in International Relations and Politics
• BS Economics and Politics
• Additional Major in Economics and Politics
• Minor in International Relations and Politics
• Minor in Cybersecurity and International Conflict

People

• Director
• Executive Committee
• Core Faculty
• Postdoctoral Fellows
• Lecturers
• Associate Professors of the Practice
• Military Fellows
• Staff
• Student Advisory Committee

Department News

• IPS in the Media
• Government and Military Engagements
• Other Events
  • Information Sessions

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