Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - Tufts University

Much of the thinking, debate, and discovery Fletcher students engage in findsits way into print. The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, published twice a year, is theofficial foreign policy journal at The Fletcher School and explores issues of internationallaw, politics, diplomacy, business, and economics. Founded by students inthe early 1970s to provide a venue for student scholarship, the Forum soon beganattracting contributions from such luminaries as Henry Kissinger and the lateDaniel Patrick Moynihan, a Fletcher alumnus. The day-to-day exchange of ideasthat make up the intellectual and social life at Fletcher is chronicled online in theFletcher Ledger. Another student publication, PRAXIS: The Fletcher School Journal ofDevelopmental Studies, is committed to the exchange of ideas and theories relatedto international development. Recent issues have focused on the links betweentrade, law, and the environment. Fletcher’s Perspectives highlights student creativework, particularly travel writing and photography, and Fletcher’s online publication,Al Nakhlah, focuses on Southwest Asia and Islamic civilization with articles andeditorials by Fletcher students and alumni.our alumniFew things demonstrate the continued relevance, applicability, and importance ofa Fletcher education more than the wide-ranging success of our alumni. And fewthings demonstrate the exceptional vitality and cohesiveness of the Fletchercommunity more than the commitment of those alumni to the success of ourcurrent students. Fletcher graduates are uniquely positioned to shape the courseof international affairs through their careers as diplomats, civil servants, industryexecutives, military officers, journalists, scholars, lawyers, researchers, and consultants.That opportunity might not have been there were it not for the doors opened byFletcher alumni before them. They are eager to provide the same opportunityto the Fletcher graduates who follow.Fletcher alumni in government and international organizations have included:• under-secretary-general forcommunications and publicinformation at the UN• special advisor to the secretarygeneralof the UN• prime ministers of Greece and Libya• foreign minister and deputy primeminister of Thailand• U.S. career ambassadors• foreign ministers of Armenia,Indonesia, Nigeria, France andArgentina• finance minister of Liberia• commander, United States SouthernCommand(33)