{news} Fw: USGP-INT Former German foreign affairs minister to teach at Princeton

[Justine McCabe]

Subject: USGP-INT Former German foreign affairs minister to teach at 
Princeton


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> Former German foreign affairs minister to teach at Princeton
>
> June 17, 2006, 3:35 PM EDT
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> PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) _ Germany's former Minister of Foreign Affairs, 
> Joschka
> Fischer, will be joining Princeton University's teaching staff this fall 
> for
> a yearlong appointment, officials announced Saturday.
> Fischer, 58, who served as minister of foreign affairs from 1998 to 2005 
> and
> is also a member of parliament, will serve as the Frederick H. Schultz 
> Class
> of 1951 Professor of International Economic Policy, according to 
> Princeton's
> Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
> "I am pleased and excited to join the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School
> at Princeton," Fischer said in the release on the school's Web site
> announcing his appointment. "This is an excellent opportunity to begin
> important projects with my new Princeton colleagues in the areas of
> trans-Atlantic and global politics, and collaborate with strategic
> institutions and individuals in Europe and America."
> Fischer will co-teach the undergraduate "International Crisis Diplomacy"
> course in the fall and an international relations graduate seminar in the
> spring. He will also serve as a senior fellow at the Wilson School's
> Liechtenstein Institute of Self-Determination and a fellow at Princeton's
> European Union Program.
> "He combines a lively and perpetually curious intellect with a wealth of
> experience grappling with some of the most important issues of our time,"
> Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, said in the
> release.
> Fischer, who joined Germany's Green party in 1982 and held various
> government positions since 1985, will also have an appointment with the
> Council on Foreign Relations in New York City during his time in the U.S.,
> the school said.
>
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