An internship at STRATFOR is a wonderful opportunity to combine my academic interest in international affairs and public policy with real-world experience.

As an undergraduate at Princeton University, I enjoy many opportunities to explore international issues in the classroom, especially as a likely major at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Policy and International Affairs. The program involves specific task forces for juniors involving major research and analysis of contemporary issues in public policy. My undergraduate course of study involves a variety of course work in history, politics, regional studies, sociology and economics. I am currently enrolled in both a Middle Eastern politics course and a seminar on national security policy, and would be thrilled to take what I recently learned in the classroom and use it. I also took a course my freshmen spring regarding national security intelligence. All this course work has inspired my to look to a future career in intelligence gathering and analysis. I want to jump into the career as soon as possible. I am passionate about international issues and enjoy reading up on current events and understanding and analyzing the workings of the world around me. I am well traveled and have spent multiple summers living abroad (in Russia) and consider myself worldly and open-minded. More importantly, I am fascinated by the world around me and constantly crave to explore and understand it better. While I am most interested in the military and security arena, I have significantly studied Eurasia and the Middle East as well. That being said, I am more than willing to study any of the world. I would like the opportunity to translate my academic and personal issues into practical experience. I have always enjoyed chances in the classroom to research and explore an issue from as many perspectives as possible and then form my own analysis of the subject on my own, Strategic Intelligence Inc. is a cutting edge business that would give me tremendous experience researching and analyzing contemporary international problems. It is the only internship I have seen that offered the possibility to combine cutting-edge work in the private sector with a focus on research and intelligence. Nothing ends I am considering a career in some combination of further academic research (an M.B.A. or PhD in public policy or international affairs), public service (at the State Department, the CIA or the Defense Department), and the private sector. An internship for STRATFOR would give me practical work experience with a team of individuals with strong credentials in analysis and public policy I will have completed the course work for my freshmen and sophomore years by December 2009 and so I am looking to spend my spring semester with an internship in intelligence, analysis or public policy. I want to get a practical feel for the career and what substantial real-world research and analysis of international affairs feels like.