Bio
Dana H. Allin is Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at SAIS Europe
Editor of
Survival and senior fellow for Transatlantic Affairs, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Deputy director, Aspen Institute Berlin (1993-1997); deputy director, International Commission on the Balkans (1995-1997); PhD, international relations, SAIS. Allin is author of numerous book chapters and articles in
Survival, International Affairs, World Policy Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Courses
- Writing for Policy: A Workshop on the Foreign Policy Journal, Survival
This seminar and workshop has three purposes. The first is to read, reflect upon and actively discuss fiction and non-fiction models of excellent writing. The second is to participate in a shadow editorial process putting together two issues of the bi-monthly journal, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy. Approximately half of class time will therefore be organized as editorial meetings where students, under the direction of the instructor (the Editor of Survival), will participate in various aspects of the process: commissioning articles, evaluating submissions, preliminary editing of accepted copy, and laying out the issue. The third purpose is to hone students' writing skills, with emphasis on the intersection of writing for the policy debate and writing as a literary art. To this end, each student will meet individually with the instructor in five half-hour tutorial sessions to go over the student’s written work.