The Division of Global Affairs (DGA) is a graduate studies and research institution at the Graduate School of Rutgers University-Newark. The DGA is an affiliate member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA).

The DGA was established in 1995 under its former name, the Center for Global Change and Governance, by professors Yale Ferguson and Richard Langhorne. Its current director is Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud. DGA’s research center, the Center for Global Change and Governance, produces the peer-reviewed publication, the Journal for Global Change and Governance.

The DGA community

The DGA has emerged as a vital participant in the educational and professional life of the New York metropolitan area, northern New Jersey, and the city of Newark. The DGA's outreach to the region's many constituencies and communities—as well as its contribution to the renaissance of Newark—builds on its commitment to education and service.

The DGA is just 20 minutes from midtown Manhattan and 2.5 hours from Washington D.C. by train.

Graduate Studies at the DGA and programs

The DGA offers two degree programs, a Master of Science in Global Affairs and a Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 in Global Affairs and hosts research centers and collaborative research initiatives to inform policy and theory.

Reflective of the DGA's global concerns, DGA graduate students are from diverse cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds. DGA’s interdisciplinary approach to higher education

Higher education

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 accommodates a diverse range of interests within the field of global affairs

International studies

International Studies generally refers to the specific University Degrees and courses which are concerned with the study of ‘the major political, economic, social, cultural and sacral issues that dominate the international agenda’...

. DGA’s educational model offers 11 specialization areas and allows students to take courses at other graduate schools at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 such as the schools of law, business and criminal justice and at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

The Benchmarking Academic Excellence Survey of Top Universities in Social and Behavioral Sciences Disciplines (2006-2007) ranked the Ph.D. program at the DGA fifth in the nation in the combined category of International Affairs and Development.

The DGA prepares students who wish to pursue careers in the following:

• International organizations such as the United Nations
  United Nations
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   and its affiliated organizations
• Transnational corporations and international financial institutions
• Non-governmental organizations
• Government agencies
• Think tanks and research institutions
• University departments and administration
• Journalism
  Journalism
  Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
  
   and media

Specialization Areas:

• Comparative Policy and Public Administration
• Environment
• Global Business and Economics
• Global Media
• Global Political Economy
• Human Rights
  Human rights
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• Identities: Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Class
• Information Technology
  Information technology
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• International Law
  International law
  Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
  
  
• Political Violence
• Terrorism and Global Security

Faculty

DGA professors are actively engaged in teaching as well as in research and writing on global affairs. Their research encompasses such issues as biotechnology

Biotechnology

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, business ethics

Business ethics

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, corporate innovation, economic policy, environmental institutions, genocide

Genocide

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, global cities, global diplomacy, global finance, globalization

Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...

 and regionalization, information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

, international migration, international trade

International trade

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories. In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product...

, media and propaganda, nationalism

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

, political violence, sustainable development

Sustainable development

Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come...

, transnational crime, and war. The DGA faculty consists of 18 core members and over 30 associate members.

Research Centers

• Center for the Study of Emergent Threats in the 21st Century (ET21)
• Center for the Study of Public Security
• Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
• Rutgers Institute on Corruption Studies