MAIA is university-wide and interdisciplinary. Its faculty comes not from one department but at least twelve and from five schools or colleges:
MAIA is a professional degree in International Administration: it trains its graduates for international careers. It overcomes the gulf between the worlds of the theorist/academician and the practitioner that can lead to sterile theoretical debates divorced from reality and policies that disregard world history and the understanding of its dynamics. Students gain not only academic knowledge but also practical skills.
MAIA focuses on the world of the 21st century. Graduates emerge with expertise in a range of contemporary issues. It uses state of the art educational methods and information technology. MAIA is located in
The MAIA program is an associate member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) and a member of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA).
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An etymological note
There are many claimants to the term “administration” – e.g. colonial, business, public, and social administration. The term “International Administration” as in MAIA - has very solid roots in the idealist school of international relations theory. The famous IR theorist Hedley Bull associates the term with the “Wilsonian rejection of balance of power, the denigration of diplomacy and the tendency to seek to replace it by international administration.”
Bull, The Anarchical Society, p.16. |
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