Research and Events Internship, Center and Europe, Foreign Policy

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Interns spend approximately 12 weeks working alongside leading experts in government and academia from all over the world. Brookings also offers students the opportunity to intern in departments such as communications, human resources and central operations management. The mission of the Internship Program is to provide students with a pre-professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work experience related to their field of studyor career interest.

Students engage in career exploration and development as well as learn new skills.

Interns will have the opportunity to attend meetings, think tank events, professional development workshops, and public Brookings events. In addition, interns will have the opportunity to network with other interns throughout the Institution.

This internship is an opportunity for undergraduate students in their junior or senior year and graduate students with an interest in European affairs and transatlantic relations to support scholar research and activity on matters of U.S. policy towards Europe and the foreign policies of European states, to apply principles and theory learned in the classroom in a professional environment. PhD students are not eligible for internships;

please visit our Careers page for current open positions. This internship pays an hourly rate of $18.40, and applicants must be willing to commit to a minimum number of hours per week (no less than 20 hours per week, during regular business hours), with some flexibility around an academic course schedule.

Position Location
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This internship requires you to be located in the U.S. for the duration of the internship. This is a hybrid opportunity. Hybrid positions combine regular in-person presence at our Washington, DC, office with the option of remote work.
Work location cannot be in any of the following states:
Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington.
Please only apply if you can live and work in states other than those listed above for the duration of the internship.

Learning Objectives

The internship will focus on a broad range of issues, including the foreign policies of the Trump administration and ramifications for European security and U.S.

-European relations; the Russia-Ukraine war and U.S. and European policies towards the conflict; the politics and foreign policies of European countries, the European Union, and Turkey; and state and societal resilience in an age of permanent vulnerability, disruption, turmoil, and challenges to democratic governance from internal extremism and external adversaries.

Interns will acquire substantive professional experience while working with the staff and scholars in the Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) at Brookings to assist with research, event coordination, and programmatic and administrative work. Interns will hone analytical, organizational, and professional interpersonal skills assisting CUSE in its mission to offer independent research and recommendations for decision makers, foster high-level dialogue on developments in Europe and global challenges that affect transatlantic relations, and convene round tables, workshops, and public forums on policy-relevant issues.

Interns will gain first-hand experience in public policy and international affairs by researching issues relevant to CUSE’s work; monitoring current developments in relevant research areas; collecting, reviewing, summarizing, and assembling relevant literature materials from a wide variety of…