I love our International Political Analysis class. The professor is awesome. He is American and specialist in the field of international economic relations, author or editor of eleven books and many articles for professional and policy journals, and he is a frequent contributor to the International Herald Tribune. He has held positions at Harvard University, the Council of Foreign Relations, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He also served in the US Navy where he held the rank of Commander. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Guests will be coming to lectures, such as the US Ambassador to Singapore and the Singaporean Minister of Foreign Affairs. Bound to be interesting. The professor realizes that we don't have enough time for debates in class, so he has opened lunch/coffee sessions to talk about world affairs.

This class is likely to be my big time favorite for this term. Needless to say that it is particularly lively in an INSEAD atmosphere.

The professor started off his first lecture with the following question to the class: “President Chirac in his New Year’s address to his country stated that the world had become multi-polar. Do you agree?”
After the whole class clashed in its various opinions, he went on. “Do you think that it is a desirable thing for the world to be multi-polar?”

Over to you.